LITERATURE. XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle. - Set of 5 volumes; sold as - Lot 110

LITERATURE. XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle. - Set of 5 volumes; sold as is. [CYRANO DE BERGERAC (Savinien)]. Les OEuvres diverses. A Paris, chez Charles de Sercy, 1654. In-4, ornate tobacco calf; binding rubbed, some wetness and stains (19th-century binding). First edition. Copper-engraved portrait-frontispiece by Antoine-Léonor Houdin after Zacharie Heince; copper-engraved typographical mark on title. Bound afterwards, as required, by the same author: Le Pedant joué. Ibid. 1654. Some old marginal notes in ink. First edition. - LA FONTAINE (Jean de). Les Amours de Psiché et de Cupidon. A Paris, chez Claude Barbin, 1669. Small in-8, brown granite calf; binding a little rubbed with a tear at the upper headband, unsightly old inscriptions on the first flyleaf and in the margin of one leaf (contemporary binding). First edition. Provenance: de Coussy family of Bisseuil, in the present-day Marne department (handwritten ex-libris on the title and on one of the endpapers). - MIRABEAU (Honoré-Gabriel Riquetti de). Errotika biblion. À Rome, de l'imprimerie du Vatican, [Neuchâtel, Fauche, Favre et Vitel], 1783. In-8, threaded red chagrin; one spine widely split (19th-century binding). Rare first edition, which was seized by the police and of which very few copies survive. Work on sexuality in Antiquity written by Mirabeau during his imprisonment at the Château de Vincennes in 1780 - [SCARRON (Paul)]. Typhon ou la Gigantomachie. Poëme burlesque. A Paris, chez Toussainct Quinet, 1644. 5 cantos in 4 parts bound in one volume in-4, worn and slightly stained fawn calf (period binding). First edition. Copper-engraved title-frontispiece by Jérôme David. Bound in the suite, [SCARRON (Paul)]. Recueil de quelques vers burlesques. A Paris, chez Toussainct Quinet, 1643. 2 parts in-4. Copper-engraved frontispiece by Jacques Picart. Provenance: Dijon scholar and antiquarian Jean-Bénigne Lucotte Du Tilliot (18th-century handwritten bookplate on title, crossed out); several other early and modern mentions, some crossed out. - SCUDERY (Madeleine)]. Mathilde. A Paris, chez Edme Martin, et au Palais, chez François Eschart, 1667. Small in-8, grained fawn calf; binding a little worn with a split jaw (binding circa 1700). First edition. Frontispiece by François Chauveau.