Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Cambery, Le miroir royal, Paris, 1549, contemporary French green velvet binding, inscription from the author to Anne de Montmorency for presentation to Henri II

Estimate

26,000 - 35,000 GBP

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CAMBERY, JEAN DE. Le miroir Royal, blasonnant les Armoiries de France, et le nom du Roy: ensemble une Epistre, adressante a treshaulte et tresillustre dame, madame Catherine de medicis. Paris: Vincent Sertenas, 1549


UNIQUE COPY PRINTED ON VELLUM FOR THE KING OF FRANCE, with an inscription from the author to Anne de Montmorency, 1st Duke of Montmorency (1493-1567), requesting him to present the book to Henri II. A comparable volume is listed in the 1568 post mortem inventory of Montmorency's Paris residence (see Léon Mirot, "L'hôtel et les collections du connétable de Montmorency" in Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes 79 (1918), p.381: "Blasons des noms et armes des chevaliers de la Table ronde, couvert en velours vert").


Two copies of the book on paper are recorded: one in Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, 8° 33127; the other Marcus Fugger’s copy (sold Munich, 11 May 1934, lot 198), acquired by Lessing Rosenwald, and gifted by him to the Library of Congress (PJ1091.F5 1543). In these copies the title-pages and initials are uncoloured.

8vo (163 x 102 mm). Roman type, 25 lines plus headline. collation: A-F4: 24 leaves (final verso blank). Painted woodcut arms of the King of France on title-page, woodcut initials (first painted), 3 full-page engraved arms, printed on vellum, ruled in red. (Some very slight browning.)


binding: Contemporary French green velvet binding (165 x 105 mm), traces of 2 pairs of ties, gilt edges, in a morocco case by Laurenchet. (Binding worn and frayed at spine and edges, upper board detached.)


provenance: Anne de Montmorency (1493-1567), 9-line inscription from author asking Montmorency to present the work to King Henri II—possibly King Henri II (ruled 1547-1559)—Librairie Pierre-Adrien Yvinec, Catalogue 2, 1999. acquisition: Purchased from Librairie Pierre-Adrien Yvinec in 1999. references: Guigard, Bibliothèque héraldique de la France (1861), no. 1679; BP 16 113422; FB 8727; USTC 40979

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