Jehan BOUCHET. Le Panegyric du Chevallier sans... Lot 11

Jehan BOUCHET. Le Panegyric du Chevallier sans reproche. In-8, red morocco, triple fillet, nicely decorated 5-rib spine, interior lace, gilt edges ( Capé). Bechtel, 91/B-321 // Brunet, I-1158 // De Backer, 253 // Tchemerzine-Scheler, II-49 // USTC, 8402. 214 f. ill-figured (18f.)-CXCVI / [ ]4 (one blank), +8, A6, B-Z8, Aa6, Bb8, Cc6 / 32 long lines, goth. car. / 131 x 188 mm. Very rare first edition of this eulogy in verse and prose of the knight Louis II de La Trémoille (1460-1525), and account of the Italian wars in which he participated until the disaster of Pavia, where he perished gloriously. His contemporaries nicknamed him the knight without reproach. He served under four kings, distinguishing himself at the battles of Fornoue, Agnadel and Marignan. Jean Bouchet (1476-1557) was a public prosecutor in Poitiers, but he also pursued a literary career, and his works were much appreciated by his contemporaries. He was a friend of Rabelais and protégé of Louis de La Trémoille. The edition is illustrated with a handsome engraved title, framed on the sides and top by rectangular woodcuts with screened backgrounds decorated with vases, flowers, statuary and foliate motifs with the printer's mark, and on the verso a handsome woodcut depicting Louis II de La Trémoille surrounded by coats of arms. Repairs to first 3 leaves. Provenance: Alfred-Henry Huth (ex-libris, I, November 15-24, 1911, no. 862) and Gancia bookshop dry stamp on one endpaper. Gancia on one endpaper.