[MATTHIEU (Pierre)]. La Magicienne estrangere, tragedie. En - Lot 645

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[MATTHIEU (Pierre)]. La Magicienne estrangere, tragedie. En - Lot 645
[MATTHIEU (Pierre)]. La Magicienne estrangere, tragedie. En laquelle on voit les tirannicques comportemens, origine, entreprises, desseings, sortilleges, arrest, mort & supplice, tant du Marquis d'Ancre que de Leonor Galligay sa femme, avec l'advantureuse rencontre de leurs ombres funestes. Par un bon François nepveu de Rotomagus. Rouen, David Geuffroy & Jacques Besongne, 1617. Small 32 pp. in-8, early 19th c. red bradel boards, gilt title on spine. Light angular spotting. Very rare first edition of this play about the famous couple formed by Concino Concini (1575-1617), a minor Italian nobleman and favorite of the regent Marie de Médicis (1575-1642), and his wife Leonora Dora "Galigaï", Catherine de Médicis' milk sister. Highly influential with the widow of Henri IV and mother of Louis XIII, the couple were detested by the people and nobles of France. While Concini was murdered by Baron de Vitry, captain of the bodyguard, on Louis XIII's orders, on April 2, 1617, in the courtyard of the Louvre, his wife was condemned and executed for witchcraft on July 8, 1617. With a handwritten note by M. Leber (to whom this copy belonged and which bears n°400 in the 4th volume of his catalog): "[...] This copy is the first in good condition, and of this 1617 edition, that I have seen pass through a sale for 30 years. It is, as we know, the year of the event, and the Lyon reprint, the only one we know of, is from 1618." Bookplate of La Germonière. Bookplate of M. Renard. Bookplate J.M. (Barbier III, 11; Brunet III, 1295; unknown to Frère.)
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