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MATANASIUS, Chrys. (=Thémiseul de Saint-Hyacinthe) (& J. v. EFFEN). Le chef d'œuvre d'un incon(!)u. Poëme, heureusement découvert & mis au jour avec des Remarques savantes & recherchées. (&) Une dissertation sur Homere & sur Chapelain. The Hague, Au dépens de la Compagnie, 1714. 2 parts in 1 vol. (52 pp, incl. engr. front. portr), 195; (2), 50, (16) pp. Sm-8°. Cont. mottled cf. (Bind. a bit chafed along extremities).

First edition. Saint-Hyacinthe's (1684-1746) first writing, an often witty satire against the annotators, scoliists and commentators of scholarship, rightly established his reputation as a man of wit. The second work by Justus v. Effen.


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