Orlandi, Effiggie naturale de i maggior prencipi et piu valorosi capitani, Rome, 1599, near-contemporary German red morocco armorial binding for a member of the Thun-Hohenstein family

Folio (290 x 210 mm). 58 unsigned leaves. Title in elaborate engraved cartouche, 57 engraved portraits (Aga Captain General di Gianizei in duplicate). (Some light spotting thoughout, 2 small marginal ink stains to title-page and first leaf, not affecting engravings.)

binding: Early seventeenth-century red morocco (298 x 220 mm), probably German, tooled in blind and gilt, gilt corner ornaments, inside a gilt frame, a blind lozenge containing a gilt fleuron at each angle, in centre a gilt cartouche containing painted coat of arms of the Thun and Hohenstein family, surmounted by a cardinal's hat, spine with 4 full bands, gilt fleuron in compartments, stubs from 2 pairs of ties, edges gilt. (Rebacked retaining most of original spine, recornered, light dampstaining to both covers and endpapers.)

provenance: Thun und Hohenstein family of Tirol and Bohemia, probably Guidobald Graf von Thun und Hohenstein (1616-1668), created cardinal priest in the consistory of 7 March 1667, arms on binding, by descent to—Johann Josef Franz Anton, Count of Thun (1711-1788), eighteenth-century bookplate—"Tetschner Bibliothek", eighteenth-century red armorial inkstamp to upper endleaf—Sotheby's, London, 29 November 1982, lot 199—Bolaffi, Milan, 12 December 2018, lot 460. acquisition: Purchased in 2019 from Stéphane Clavreuil Rare Books, London. references: See Nagler, Monogrammisten I, no. 2329, III, no. 50; IV no. 72; Le Blanc I, 332; III, 120