Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Bembo, Gli Asolani, Venice, 1553, contemporary limp vellum with fore-edge flaps, the de-Thou–Soubise copy

Estimate

600 - 800 GBP

Lot Details

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BEMBO, PIETRO. Gli Asolani di m. Pietro Bembo. Venice: Gualtiero Scoto, 1553


A CHARMING COPY IN CONTEMPORARY LIMP VELLUM WITH FORE-EDGE FLAPS. THE DE-THOU–SOUBISE COPY.


The shelfmark on the inside upper cover is that of Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise (1715-1787), who inherited the de Thou library. (For another example of the Soubise shelfmark in the Bibliotheca Brookeriana, see Magnificent Books and Bindings, lot 2 (Alberti). For a further volume in the present sale with the same prestigious provenance, see lot 1845 (Stella).

8vo (160 x 100 mm). Roman and italic type, 29 lines plus headline. collation: *4 A-O8 P4: 124 leaves. Woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials. (Slight browning, worming to foot between O8 to endpapers.)


binding: Contemporary limp vellum (165 x 115 mm), fore-edge flaps, manuscript title on spine, remains of manuscript shelfmark. (Slight browning and creasing, worming to foot of lower cover with 10 x 80 mm loss.)


provenance: De Thou family library, Catalogus bibliothecae Thuanae, Paris, 7 April 1679, II, p. 404, inherited by—Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise (1715-1787), shelfmark "1.C.T.4.L.48" in ink on inside front cover, sale, Charles-Guillaume Leclerc, Paris, 12 January-20 May 1789, lot 5601—Robert Samuel Turner (1818-1887), sold by his heirs, Sotheby's, London, 18 June 1888, lot 332. acquisition: Purchased in 1985 from Bernard Quaritch, London. references: USTC 813424

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