Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII
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1585 Abravanel, Philosophie d'amour, Lyon, 1551, contemporary French polychrome strapwork binding for "Marguerite"
1586 Albani, Libri de potestate papae et concilii, Venice, 1561, contemporary Roman red morocco gilt by Marcantonio Guillery
1587 Amboise, Les contrepistres d'Ovide; Le tableau de Cebes, Paris, 1543, Parisian brown calf gilt for Marcus Fugger
1588 Ariosto, Orlando furioso, Venice, 1533, contemporary Spanish blind-tooled calf, the Vernon–Holford copy
1589 Avila y Zuñiga, Commentariorum de bello Germanico, Antwerp, 1550, Bohemian armorial calf dated 1553 for Christopher the Elder Popel of Lobkowicz
1590 Baïf, Annotationes in legem II de captivis, Basel, 1537, contemporary Spanish Mudéjar binding
1591 Bardi, Della chronologia universale parte quarta, Venice, 1581, contemporary Roman green morocco gilt, likely from the Biblioteca Altempsiana
1592 Baudelot de Dairval, De l'utilité des voyages, Paris, 1686, nineteenth-century vellum
1593 Belon, L'histoire naturelle des estranges poissons marins, Paris, 1551, the Beckford copy
1594 Bembo, Prose, Venice, 1525, contemporary blind-stamped calf
Bembo, Pietro
1595 Bembo, Les Azolains, Paris, 1547, contemporary French black morocco with painted interlacing possibly by Wotton Binder C, the Ballesdens copy
1596 Bembo, Delle rime, Venice, 1548, eighteenth-century mottled calf, blue-paper copy
1597 Bembo, Delle rime, Venice, 1548, nineteenth-century armorial blue morocco for the Marchese d'Adda, blue-paper copy
1598 Bembo, Delle lettere primo volume, Rome, 1548, Venetian red morocco gilt for Fulvio Rangoni, the Fairfax-Murray copy
1599 Bembo, Delle rime, Rome, 1548, Italian red straight-grained morocco gilt, c. 1800, blue-paper copy
1600 Bembo, Prose, Florence, 1549, Parisian painted calf gilt for "F.B."
1601 Bembo, Gli Asolani, Venice, 1553, contemporary limp vellum with fore-edge flaps, the de-Thou–Soubise copy
1602 Berni, Capitolo del gioco della primiera, Venice, 1534 [and other works], late sixteenth-century Roman red morocco gilt, the Duca di Sora copy
1603 Billy, Exhortation au peuple francois, Paris, 1584, contemporary Parisian limp vellum gilt with fore-edge flaps
1604 Bisagno, Trattato della pittura, Venice, 1642, contemporary vellum
1605 Boccaccio, Ameto, Venice, 1524, contemporary Venetian Fortuna binding, possibly by the Mendoza Binder
1606 Boccaccio, Des nobles maleureux, Paris, 1538, contemporary Parisian tan calf gilt for Marcus Fugger
1607 Boccaccio, Libro delle donne illustri, Venice, 1545, contemporary Venetian olive-green goatskin by the Fugger Binder for Cardinal Perrenot de Granvelle
1608 Boccaccio, Amorosa visione, Venice, 1549, contemporary Parisian vellum gilt
1609 Boccaccio, Il Decamerone, Venice, 1550, contemporary Parisian strapwork binding dated 1552 for "Ε.Π."
1610 Boileau-Despréaux, Oeuvres diverses, Paris, 1674, contemporary English red morocco gilt for the 1st Duke of Buckingham
1611 Boscán and Garcilaso de la Vega, Obras, [Rome], 1547, contemporary Roman Fortuna binding
1612 Botero, Della ragion di stato libri dieci, Venice, 1589, Spanish red morocco armorial binding for Núñez de Guzmán
1613 Brucioli, Dialogi della morale philosophia [and other works], Venice, 1544-1545, Parisian brown morocco gilt for d'Amboise, the Masterman-Sykes—Heber copy
1614 Burchiello, Rime comentate dal Doni, Vicenza, 1597, contemporary French red morocco gilt for Bartolomeo Cenami
1615 Bure, Bibliographie instructive, Paris, 1763-1782, 10 volumes, contemporary French mottled calf, Anthony Hobson's copy
1616 Cabrera, Meditatiunculae, Valladolid, 1548, contemporary Spanish brown morocco gilt, from the library of El Escorial
1617 Cambery, Le miroir royal, Paris, 1549, contemporary French green velvet binding, inscription from the author to Anne de Montmorency for presentation to Henri II
1618 Camillo, L'idea del theatro, Florence, 1550, nineteenth-century half vellum
1619 Capell, Lectionum Bibliothecariarum memorabilium syntagma, Hamburg, 1682, contemporary vellum with fore-edge flaps
1620 Carioni, Via de aperta verita, Venice, 1523, contemporary Italian black morocco with nineteenth-century gilt decoration
1621 Castiglione, Les quatre livres du Courtisan, Lyon, [1537], contemporary French calf tooled in gilt and blind
1622 Castiglione, Gallorum Insubrum antiquae sedes, Milan, 1541, nineteenth-century tan calf by Koehler
1623 Castiglione, Ricordi overo ammaestramenti, Venice, 1554, contemporary limp vellum
1624 Castiglione, Ricordi overo ammaestramenti, Milan, 1561, contemporary limp vellum
1625 Champmeslé, Les Grisettes, comedie, Paris, 1671, contemporary calf
1626 Chartier, Les croniques, Paris, 1528, contemporary French tan calf gilt
1627 Chaumeau, Histoire de Berry, Lyon, 1566, magnificent contemporary French tan calf with painted interlacing
1628 Cicero, Opera, Basel, 1534, 2 volumes, contemporary Munich pigskin with painted foredges, from the Pillone library
1629 Clamorgan, La chasse du loup, Paris, 1567, eighteenth-century English tan calf
1630 Clenardus, Institutiones ac meditationes in graecam linguam, Lyon, 1581, Parisian armorial morocco gilt for d'Amboise
1631 Colonna, Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1561, contemporary vellum gilt
1632 Columbus, Epistola de insulis novis inventis, [facsimile of the 1493 Rome edition], green crushed morocco