Luis de Granada, Specchio della vita humana, Venice, 1570, Roman armorial gilt binding, the Horace de Landau copy

LUIS DE GRANADA. Specchio della vita humana. Venice: Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari, 1570 [bound with:]

Trattato dell'oratione, & della Meditatione. Venice: Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari, 1572

TWO WORKS BY LUIS DE GRANADA IN A RICHLY GILT ROMAN ARMORIAL BINDING.

The arms on this binding have yet to be identified. Similarities have been drawn with those of the Puglia branch of the Eustachi family, which feature a tower flanked by two lions, but lack the three stars.

This book was later in the collection of Baron Horace de Landau (1824-1905), who at an early age entered the Paris house of the Rothschilds. He became their representative with the government of the newly created Kingdom of Italy in the 1860s. In 1872, he devoted himself to the formation of a great library and collection of works of art, purchasing a large villa on one of the hills outside Florence. He lived there for thirty years, expanding his collections by attending important sales across Europe and purchasing some great libraries en bloc. He bequeathed all his property to Madame Hugo Finaly, his niece, who made many valuable additions to the library. It was sold in these rooms following the death of her son, but this volume is not traced in the sale catalogues. For another lot in the present sale which also belonged to Baron Horace de Landau, see lot 1810 (Plutarch).