Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Bembo, Les Azolains, Paris, 1547, contemporary French black morocco with painted interlacing possibly by Wotton Binder C, the Ballesdens copy

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 GBP

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BEMBO, PIETRO. Les azolains de monseigneur Bembo, de la nature d'amour. Traduictz d'Italien en Francoys, par Ian Martin secretaire de Monseigneur Reverendissime Cardinal de Lenoncourt, par le commandement de Monseigneur Monseigneur le Duc d'Orleans. Seconde edition corrigée & emendée par le traducteur. Paris: Michel de Vascosan for Gilles Corrozet, July 1547


SECOND EDITION OF THE FIRST FRENCH TRANSLATION OF GLI ASOLANI IN AN ATTRACTIVE CONTEMPORARY FRENCH BINDING.


This binding may be attributed to Wotton Binder C, as suggested by the tools in the spine compartments and central design; for similar tooling, see Davis Gift III, no. 50. This copy once belonged to l'abbé Jean Ballesdens or Balesdens (c. 1600-1675), Royal Chaplain, secretary to chancellor Pierre Séguier, and member of the Académie française. His library, dispersed in 1677, included 25 Grolier bindings, which he was among the first to collect in a systematic manner. For further volume with Ballesdens provenance, and with his ownership inscription on the title-page, see Bibliotheca Brookeriana, Aldine Collection D-M, 18 October 2024, lot 686 and, in the present sale, lots 1662 and 1663.

8vo (165 x 107 mm). Italic type, 26 lines plus headline. collation: A-T8 V4 (V4 blank): 156 leaves. Woodcut initials, uppercase letters highlighted in yellow, ruled in red throughout, partially erased old manuscript inventory number to upper endpaper.


binding: Contemporary French black morocco (169 x 115 mm), possibly by Wotton Binder C, free hand gougework using interlaced double gilt fillets, enameled red, brown, orange, green, black, and white, to form a quasi-rectangular frame with a looped square at corners, this frame intersected by a quasi-lozenge with large open forms at points, two elongated ovals intersecting at centre, gilt rosette and open doghead and leaf tool enameled at corners, spine with 5 full and 2 half bands open doghead and fleuron tool in compartments, edges gilt, in a modern tan leather box. (Joints becoming weak.)


provenance: Jean Ballesdens (1600-1675), secretary and librarian to Chancellor Pierre Séguier, signature on title-page surrounded by 3 S fermés—Baron Roger Portalis (1841-1912), art historian, bookplate, his sale, Drouot, Paris, 1-3 April 1889, lot 185—Henri Bordes (1841-1911), bookplate—Édouard Rahir (1862-1924), bookplate, sale, 7 May 1930, lot 28, fr. 18,000 to "F.R."—Francis Kettaneh (1897-1976), bookplate, sale Paris, 20 May 1980, lot 11, fr. 38,000—Librairie Paul Jammes, Catalogue 277, item 70. acquisition: Purchased from Librairie Paul Jammes, 2009. references: USTC 27278; BP16 112650

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