[CHRESTIEN, Florent]. Satyre Menippée, de la vertu du Catholicon d'Espagne, et de la tenue des états de Paris, a laquelle est ajoutée un Discours sur l'interprétation du mot de Higuiero del Infierno, & qui en est l'Auteur.
Ratisbonne [Rouen], Chez les Héritiers de Mathias Kerner, 1711.

In-12 (172 x 107 mm), 3 volumes, T1 - (6) ff., XXXVI-464 pp., (14) ff., T2 - (4) ff., 522 pp., (19) ff., T3 - (3) ff., 585 pp., (17) ff.
Glazed calf, triple gilt fillet in a panelled frame, smooth spine gilt, dark-green morocco lettering- and volume-labels, gilt fillet on board edges, blue sprinkled edges, gilt roll-tooling to inner borders (contemporary binding).

Rouen edition of the 1711 Satyre Ménippée, from Beraldi’s copy.
The work, in three volumes, features a frontispiece in each volume. The first volume is illustrated with four additional plates: two portraits and two folding scenes. It is further augmented with the notes of J. Godefroy. 

“This edition is noteworthy for its numerous annotations and for the addition of several contemporary pieces that are not found in the first edition issued by the same scholar” (Graesse).

A few minor foxing spots and browned pages; overall, a handsome copy in glazed calf.

From the libraries of Henri Beraldi and L. Quintard, bearing their bookplates.
Tchemerzine, III, 395 ; Graesse, V, 274 ; Brunet, I, 145 ; Cohen, 939.