Lippomano, Espositioni sopra il simbolo apostolico, Venice, 1545, red morocco by Maestro Luigi for a member of the Ciocchi del Monte family

8vo (157 x 103 mm). Italic type, 28 lines plus headline. collation: A-2F⁸: 232 leaves. Woodcut initial.

binding: Roman red morocco gilt (161 x 114 mm), c. 1550, by Maestro Luigi for a member of the Ciocchi del Monte family, frame of 2 single gilt and multiple blind fillets, small gilt tool of the 3 monticelli of the Ciocchi del Monte at outer corners and a larger version at the inner corners, in centre an arabesque ornament composed to a leafy tool tête-bêche, with the small monticelli tool above and below and at sides, spine with 3 bands, gilt rosette in compartments, edges gilt and gauffered to a ropework design interspersed with stars. (Expertly rebacked, retaining original spine, and recornered.)

provenance: Ciocchi del Monte, arms on binding—"di me Fra Giuseppe Setafini da M.tr Nuovo...", sixteenth-century inscription at lower margin of title-page—Jean Fürstenberg (1890-1982), booklabel—Martin Breslauer Inc., Catalogue 110, no. 40. acquisition: Purchased in 1992 from Martin Breslauer Inc., New York. references: USTC 838218; Edit16 CNCE 31695; De Marinis, Die italienischen Renaissance-Einbände der Bibliothek Fürstenberg (Hamburg 1966), pp. 58-59