Galenus, De compositione pharmacorum localium, Lyon, 1549, interlaced morocco by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger with his signature

16mo (123 x 78 mm). Roman type with italic marginalia, 29 lines plus headline. collation: πA-B⁸ a-z⁸ A-Z⁸ Aa-Ff⁸ (z5 missigned z3): 432 leaves (+ 39 blanks at end). Woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials and headpieces, manuscript index at end left blank. (Dampstaining to foot of first few leaves and quire h, some very slight browning.)

binding: Parisian inlaid binding (129 x 82 mm), plausibly by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger, c. 1550, olive brown morocco, gilt and enamelled, black enamelled border flanked by gilt fillets enclosing a panel with an inlay of interlaced strapwork of tan morocco outlined with gilt fillets, interwoven with tendrils ending in empty leaf tools enamelled black, flat spine with horizontal band of cable work enamelled black and outlined in gilt at ends, large central compartment filled with open leafy arabesques, enamelled black, small gilt stars in interstices, edges gilt, in a cloth box. (Joints cracking.)

provenance: Marcus Fugger (1529-1597), inscription "Marx Fugg." on upper pastedown, early shelfmarks "Arc.134 Nro.251", by family descent to—Marquard Fugger, Graf von Kirchberg und Weissenhorn (1596-1655)—Öttingen-Wallerstein, family library at Schloss Maihingen, armorial inkstamp on title-page—Eugen Wolfgang Karl Friedrich Joseph Notger, Fürst zu Öttingen-Öttingen und Öttingen-Wallerstein (1885-1969)—sale, Karl & Faber, Munich, 6–7 November 1933, lot 429—Raphaël Esmerian (1903-1976), bookplate to upper pastedown, sale, Georges Blaizot & Claude Guérin, Paris, 6 June 1972, lot 67. acquisition: Purchased in 1989 from Martin Breslauer Inc., New York. references: von Gültlingen XI: Rollet & Frein 33; USTC 150207; Adams G-80. exhibited: Walters Art Gallery, The History of Bookbinding, 1957, no. 315; The Grolier Club, Bookbinding Styles during the Renaissance in France, 1966, no. 2