Carioni, Via de aperta verita, Venice, 1523, contemporary Italian black morocco with nineteenth-century gilt decoration
Estimate
800 - 1,200 GBP
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CARIONI, BATTISTA. Via de aperta verita. Venice: Gregorio de Gregori for Lorenzo Lorio, 28 March 1523
FIRST EDITION, PUBLISHED WITHOUT THE AUTHOR'S KNOWLEDGE AND WITH MANY ERRORS. In a rather simple sixteenth-century binding with the holy monogram IHS in the centre, with added nineteenth-century gilt tooling.
Battista Carioni da Crema's Via de Aperta Verità was published in Venice in 1523 without his knowledge, on the initiative of Don Girolamo Regino. This edition had numerous errors to the point that many parts were incomprehensible, forcing the author to prepare a reprint, which was published in Venice in 1525.
Sotheby's is grateful to Professor Mirjam M. Foot for her assistance in researching this binding.
8vo (153 x 103 mm). Roman type, 29 lines. collation: a-z8 &8 S8 R4: 204 leaves. Title-page with woodcut device, and woodcut border, full-page woodcut to verso of final leaf, marginal notes in Italian in an early modern hand to G2r. (Some marginal dampstaining, title-page and first 35 leaves with a small section worn away at fore-edge, final leaf soiled and with 24 mm closed tear to lower margin, endleaves and pastedowns renewed.)
binding: Contemporary Italian black morocco over wooden boards (163 x 108 mm), gilt roundel containing holy monogram in centre, surrounded by later elaborate gilt interlacing strapwork, likely nineteenth-century, forming rectangular outer frame with heart-shaped loops at corners, inner circle intersecting rectangle and containing 2 interlacing triangles interwoven with a 6-lobed figure, azured leafy tools, small flowers in interstices, spine with 3 bands, compartments with later blind saltire and gilt circular punches, traces of 4 clasps, blue edges. (Rebacked retaining some of original spine and restored at extremities, slight worming, upper joint cracked.)
provenance: Arthur Jeffrey Parsons (1865-1915), purple stamp on inside lower cover, his sale, American Art Association, New York, 24 January 1923, lot 120. acquisition: Purchased in 1976 from Peter Tumarkin, Cambridge, MA. references: USTC 812854 (listing 6 institutional copies); Edit16 CNCE 4631
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