Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Martial d'Auvergne, Aresta amorum, Paris, 1544, Parisian tan calf, L'Angelier publisher's binding, gilt edges, the Gómez-de-la-Cortina–Pichon copy

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5,000 - 7,000 GBP

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MARTIAL D'AUVERGNE. Aresta amorum. Cum erudita Benedicti Curtii Symphoriani explanatione. Accessit huic editioni locupletissimus rerum ac vocabulorum Index. Paris: Jean David, René Houdouyn, & Pasquier Le Tellier for Charles L’Angelier, 1544


Baron Pichon's copy of the third edition of Martial D'Auvergne's famous parody of French legal jargon, IN A CONTEMPORARY PARISIAN PUBLISHER'S BINDING. Pichon possessed two more bindings decorated with the L’Angelier device, François Le Roy’s Le dialogue de consolation (1537), and another copy of the present book. In his Documents pour servir à l’histoire des libraires de Paris, 1486-1600 (Paris 1895), Pichon disputed Léon Gruel’s theories about the purpose of such bindings adorned by the names or devices of publishers and printers.


For more information on publisher's bindings for L'Angelier, see lot 1666 (Doré). See next lot for another copy of the same work in an identical binding, but with plain edges. For a further publisher's binding for L'Angelier, see lot 1733 (Justinian I).

8vo (170 x 107 mm). Roman type. collation: A-2D8 2E4: 220 leaves. Title-page with woodcut device, repeated on recto of final leaf. (Some dampstaining.)


binding: Parisian tan calf publisher’s display binding (172 x 113 mm), early 1540s, outer and inner rectangular frames of multiple blind fillets, in the corners a large gilt fleuron, in the centre the gilt lozenge-shaped larger mark of the Brothers L'Angelier; the standing Christ child flanked by 2 kneeling angels who are tied together by a true-love knot, the initials C and L (for Charles L'Angelier) above the angels’ heads, surrounded by a cartouche inscribed with the punning device "LES.ANGES.LIES", and a small cherub’s head above and below, gilt edges, housed in modern grey cloth box. (Old neat restoration to spine and corners.)


provenance: "Emptus 12 assib", sixteenth-century inscription on front pastedown—"Gohory", sixteenth-century inscription on title-page (possibly Jacques Gohory (1520-1576), avocat au parlement de Paris)—Joachím Gómez de la Cortina, Marqués de Morante (1808-1868), sale, Paris, 21 February 1872, lot 1309—Librairie Damascène Morgand, Paris, Bulletin mensuel 21, November 1887, item 13345 and

Exposition universelle internationale de 1889 à Paris: Exposition rétrospective du travail et des sciences anthropologiques, Section II: Arts libéraux

(Lille 1889), p. 64—Baron Jérôme-Fredéric Pichon (1812-1896), sale, Paris, May 3, 1897, lot 1079—Georges Heilbrun, cat. 20 (1961), item 68. acquisition: Purchased in 2001 from Erasmushaus, Basel. references: BP16 111790; USTC 57969; Adams, M-686

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