Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Gambara, Poemata, Antwerp, 1569; Pighius, Themis dea, Antwerp, 1568, eighteenth-century red morocco gilt, the Desportes copy

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3,000 - 5,000 GBP

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GAMBARA, LORENZO. Poemata. Antwerp: Christophe Plantin, 1569 [bound with:]


PIGHIUS, STEPHANUS WINANDUS, Themis dea, seu de lege divina. Antwerp: Christophe Plantin, 1568


FIRST EDITIONS OF TWO WORKS commissioned by Cardinal Perrenot de Granvelle, WITH OWNERSHIP INSCRIPTION OF PHILIPPE DESPORTES (1546-1606), reader and counsellor of Henri III. The copy is not among the 286 books and manuscripts identified by Isabelle de Conihout as belonging to Desportes ("Du nouveau sur la bibliothèque de Philippe Desportes et sur sa dispersion" in Philippe Desportes (1546-1606): un poète presque parfait entre Renaissance et Classicisme, edited by Jean Balsamo (Paris 2000), pp. 121- 160); however, it is now recorded by François Rouget ("Éléments nouveaux pour la reconstruction de la bibliothèque de Philippe Desportes" in Les Labyrinthes de l'esprit: Collections et bibliothèques a la Renaisance (Geneva 2015), pp. 383-402 (p. 397: citing Thomas Scheler, Catalogue 29)). Desportes customarily left his books in the covers in which he bought them (Anthony Hobson, French and Italian collectors and their bindings, p. 61)


(1) Collection of poems by the Italian humanist, Lorenzo Gambara (1496-1586), protégé of Cardinal Alexander Farnese.

(2) Étienne Winand, known as Pighius, a humanist from the Netherlands, served as librarian and secretary to Perrenot de Granvelle. This work brings together two objects of archaeological study: the marble statue of Themis acquired by Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi in Rome and the relief decoration of a Roman silver vase, acquired by Cardinal Granvelle, both illustrated in the text, engraved by Anton van Leest after Pieter van der Borcht.

2 works in one volume, 8vo (164 x 103 mm). (1) Italic type, 32 lines plus headline. collation: A-L8: 88 leaves (penultimate verso and final leaf blank). Woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials. (2) Roman type, 21 lines plus headline. collation: A-N8 O-P4 (O2 missigned O3): 112 leaves (O3v and O4v blank). 1 full-page and 1 large folding woodcut illustration, woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials. (Some light spotting and foxing, marginal dampstaining to some quires, small burn mark to F1 of (1) affecting 1 letter.)


binding: Late eighteenth-century red morocco (171 x 112 mm), triple gilt fillet and gilt egg and diamond frame, flat spine, 7 false bands of single gilt fillets, 4 compartments decorated with gilt vases, one with 2-line title, edges gilt, marbled endpapers.


provenance: Philippe Desportes (1546-1606), court poet and counsellor of Henri III, signature on title-page, a number of books inherited by—Jesuit Collège de Clermont, Paris, seventeenth-century inscription to title-page—Lambert Ferdinand Joseph Van den Zande (1780-1853), possibly his circular exlibris removed from upper left-hand corner of upper pastedown, his sale, Guérin, Boulouze & Jacques-Joseph Techener, Paris, 5 February-17 March 1854, lot 1178—Reiss and Sohn, 21 October 2003, lot 675. acquisition: Purchased in 2004 from Librairie Thomas-Scheler, Paris. references: (1) USTC 401430; Voet 1232; (2) USTC 404582; Voet 2053

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