Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Diodorus Siculus, Delle antique historie fabulose, Venice, 1542, French calf with gilt plaquette by Giovanni Bernardi da Castelbolognese

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 GBP

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DIODORUS SICULUS. Delle antique historie fabulose. Novamente fatto volgare, e con somma diligentia stampate. Venice: Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari, 1542


A RARE EXAMPLE OF A FRENCH BINDING WITH AN ITALIAN PLAQUETTE. Hobson recorded a total of 11 bindings with this particular plaquette, depicting the Triumph of Amphitrite. (He listed eight bindings in 1989, adding a further 3 in 2000). However, the present binding was unknown to him. Traditionally, the medalist was identified as Valerio Belli, but Hobson's attribution to Giovanni Bernardi da Castelbolognese is preferred by most modern-day scholars.

8vo (148 x 96 mm). Italic type, 29 lines plus headline. collation: A-P8: 120 leaves. Title-page with woodcut device. (Some staining.)


binding: French brown calf binding (151 x 103 mm), 1540s, blind lines around sides, inner rectangle composed of blind lines with gilt bud and leaf tool at outer angles in centre a gilt oval plaquette by Valerio Belli of Vicenza (outer oval 51 x 41mm, inner oval 47 x 38mm) showing the Triumph of Amphitrite (Molinier 289), spine with 4 full bands and 2 half bands, gilt quadrefoil in compartments, housed in a modern black morocco box. (Restored at extremities, joints starting.)


provenance: Carlo Alberto Chiesa (1926-1998), Milanese bookseller, his private collection. acquisition: Purchased in 2014 from Librairie Lardanchet, Paris. references: USTC 826957; Edit16 CNCE 17220; for Anthony Hobson's censuses of Italian plaquette bindings, see: Humanists and Bookbinders (Cambridge: CUP, 1989), and “Plaquette and medallion bindings: a second supplement” in For the love of the binding: Studies in bookbinding history presented to Mirjam Foot (London 2000), pp. 67-79

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