Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Castiglione, Ricordi overo ammaestramenti, Milan, 1561, contemporary limp vellum

Estimate

400 - 600 GBP

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CASTIGLIONE, SABBA DA. Ricordi overo ammaestramenti di monsignor Saba da Castiglione cavalier gierosolimitano, ne quali con prudenti, e christiani discorsi si ragiona di tutte le materie honorate, che si ricercano a un vero gentil'huomo. Milan: printed by Valerio Meda & Brothers for Giovanni Antonio I degli Antoni, 1561


A REPRINT OF THE MILAN 1559 EDITION of this collection of counsels for gentlemen by Sabba da Castiglione (1480–1554).


For an earlier edition of this text, printed in Venice in 1554, and for further information, see the previous lot (lot 1623).

8vo (155 x 100 mm). Italic type, 31 lines plus headline. collation: A-2O8 2P4: 300 leaves (final leaf blank). Woodcut printer's device on title-page and penultimate verso, woodcut initials. (Title-page loose and lower outer corner frayed with loss to publisher and date, small hole to lower corner of A2 slightly affecting text, marginal dampstaining throughout.)


binding: Contemporary limp vellum (157 x 112 mm), flat spine, ?eighteenth-century manuscript title on spine, stubs from two pairs of ties. (Edges frayed, loss to lower cover outer corner, some worming to covers and spine, edges sprinkled brown.)


provenance: Bernard Quaritch, Catalogue 1115, 1989, no. 95. acquisition: Purchased in 1990 from Bernard Quaritch Ltd, London. references: USTC 819601; Edit16 CNCE 10167

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