Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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La Marche, El cavallero determinado, Barcelona, 1566, contemporary Spanish dark green morocco with arms of Aragon

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

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LA MARCHE, OLIVIER DE. El cavallero determinado, traduzido de lengua francesa en castellana, por don Hernando de Acuña. Barcelona: Claudio Bornat, 1566 [bound with:]


PÉREZ DE GUZMÁN, FERNÁN. Exemplo pera bien bivir. Las sietecientas. Lisbon: Widow of German Gaillard, 21 March 1564


A RARE AND BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE OF SPANISH PRINTING AND BOOK ILLUSTRATION OF THE MID-SIXTEENTH CENTURY IN A CONTEMPORARY SPANISH BINDING.


This apparently unrecorded issue of El cavallero determinado is one of three sixteenth-century editions printed in Spain, the first printed by Juan Batista of Salamanca, 1560. Bornat obtained the licence renewal in 1564 and printed his first illustrated edition in 1565. The present copy appears to be a reissue of the 1565 edition, with a reprinting of some or all of the first quire. The twenty woodcuts were faithfully copied from the first printing of Hernando de Acuña's adaptation of Charles V's Spanish translation of the French original by Joannes Steelsius of Antwerp in 1553, which in turn found their roots in the incunable Gouda edition (c. 1489-1490). Bound in is the second Lisbon edition of Pérez de Guzmán's religious poem on the art of living well, the first having been printed in 1541.

4to (190 x 130 mm). (1) Roman type, 20 verse lines plus headline. collation: A-P8: 120 leaves (final 2 leaves blank). 20 full-page woodcut illustrations, woodcut arms on title-page, woodcut initials, some deckle edges. (Some slight browning, a few small wormholes to title and first leaf.) (2) Gothic type,. 32 verse line and 35 prose lines plus headline, text single and double. collation: a-i8 k4: 76 leaves. Title printed in red and black, woodcut device on title-page. (Some moderate browning.)


binding: Contemporary Spanish dark green morocco (195 x 142 mm), blind roll-tooled border of floral sprays and Caesar cameos, central panel with large floral cornerpieces and central arms of Aragon, spine with 4 full bands, traces of vellum manuscript spine label, manuscript title on fore-edge, in a cloth slipcase. (Rebacked retaining most of original spine, small neat repairs to corners, slight worming to upper board and upper endpapers.)


provenance: Possibly a member of the House of Aragon, arms on binding—manuscript shelfmarks to upper endleaf—Otto Schäfer (1912-2000), his sale, Sotheby's, New York, pt 3, 1 November 1995, lot 136. acquisition: Purchased in 1997 from Bernard Quaritch, London. references: (1) cf. USTC 339386 (1565 Bornat edition); (2) USTC 340710

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