Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Doni, La filosofia morale, Venice, 1567, contemporary French polished tan calf gilt with arms of Nicolas Moreau d'Auteuil

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

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DONI, ANTON FRANCESCO. La filosofia morale del Doni, tratta da molti degni scrittori antichi prudenti. Scritta per amaestramento universale de governi, & reggimento particolare de gli huomini; con modi dotti, & piacevoli, novelle, motti, argutie, & sententie. Venice: Francesco Rampazetto for the heirs of Melchiorre I Sessa, 1567


SECOND EDITION of Doni's reworking into Italian of the Panchatantra, IN A CONTEMPORARY CALF BINDING FOR NICOLAS MOREAU D'AUTEUIL (c. 1544-1619), Treasurer of France and bibliophile, who frequented the circle of the poets of Le Pléiade and the Académie de Valois. For another volume in the present sale bound for Nicolas Moreau, see lot 1861 (Verdizzoti).


The Panchatantra is an ancient Indian poem, transmitted mainly by the Arabic version Kaliwah wa-Dimnah of the alleged author Bidpai.

Second edition, 8vo (138 x 93 mm). Roman and italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: *8 A-V8 X4: 176 leaves. Title-page with woodcut device, woodcut initials and printer's ornaments, full-page woodcut author portrait to *8v, early modern marginalia, further annotations to 7 endleaves (comprising: 3 pages of Italian phrases in the same hand as the marginal annotator, 1 page with ownership inscriptions of Torriano and Croisi (see provenance note), 1 page of French phrases, and a 2 page draft of a letter by Croisi). (Closely trimmed, cropping date on title and some running titles.)


binding: Contemporary French polished tan calf (145 x 103 mm), gilt fillets around sides, sides, gilt arms of Nicolas Moreau (chevron, 2 Moors heads above, one below) surmounted by a plumed helmet within an oval cartouche in centre, flat spine decorated with feuillages, five-line horizontal title “LA|FILOS|FIA|MORA|LE.” (Hinges and spine ends restored, minor restoration to gilt arms on lower board.)


provenance: Nicolas Moreau d'Auteuil (c.1544-1619), Treasurer of France and bibliophile, arms on binding, notes in two early modern hands on title ("Ex. lib. Nicol. Morulli..." and "Di Nicolo Moreau Sr. Dauteuil comprato Venetiae"), with another note in the second hand on final text leaf ("Di Nicolo Moreau S.r D'auteuil")—"Giovanni Torriani" (possibly Giovanni Ambrogio Torriani, d.1679, Italian bishop), ownership inscription—"Giulian Maria D'Arcor Croisi", ownership inscription and 2-page draft of a letter dated 26 January 1649 signed "De Croisis" to endleaves—Marcellus Schlimovich (1880-1960), Argentine bibliophile, bookplate—"Sociedad Hebraica Argentina, colección Schlimovich" library stamp. acquisition: Purchased in 2010 from Librairie Chamonal, Paris. references: USTC 827634; Edit16 CNCE 17712; A. Vidier, "Un bibliophile du XVIe siècle", Mélanges offers à Émile Picot, 1913, pp. 371-372; Shapalova, "Nicolas Moreau d’Auteuil et ses livres", Bulletin du Bibliophile, 2014, pp. 7-61, no. 53

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