ASSOUCY, Charles Coypeau d' - Le Ravissement de Proserpine. Poeme burlesque. Enrichy de toutes ses figures. Paris: 1653.. Paris, Pierre David et Edme Pepingué, 1653. In-4, (7) ff, 112 pp, 3 plates engraved in intaglio, lacking the exceptionally present portrait after Tchémerzine, yellowed paper, contemporary lavaliere morocco, double framed with gilt fillets and roulettes on the boards, fleurons at the corners and coats of arms in the center, ornate ribbed spine, a few scratches on the first board and small epidermis.
TCH I, 35. First edition. Parody of Claudian's poem of the same title. The three plates depicting grotesque figures are attributed to François Chauveau. (Rel. à suite du même :) Le Jugement de Paris en vers burlesques. Dedicated to Monseigneur de Lionne. Paris, Toussaint Quinet, 1648. Front, (12) ff, 92 pp, (2) ff. one fig. h. t., Barbet bibl. stamps, ext. margin of figure slightly trimmed. TCH I, 125. First edition. -- FURETIÈRE, Antoine]. Le Voyage de Mercure. Satyre. Divisé en cinq Livres. Paris, Louis Chamhoudry, 1653. (4) ff, 125 (2) pp, ff. browned. TCH III, 392. First edition. Satires in verse on men of letters. They precede those by Boileau published in 1666. -- SCARRON, Paul - Leandre et Hero. Ode burlesque. Dediée à Monseigneur Foucquet, Procureur General, Sur-intendant des Finances, & Ministre d'Estat. Paris: Antoine de Sommaville, 1656. (2) ff, 68 pp, lower margin of title trimmed, frontispiece missing. Unidentified arms.
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