Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Pibrac, Tetrasticha, Paris, 1584, contemporary vellum gilt for Louis Quartais

Estimate

800 - 1,200 GBP

Lot Details

Description

PIBRAC, GUY DU FAUR; SEIGNEUR DE. Tetrasticha Graecis & Latinis versibus expressa, authore Florente Christiano. Paris: Fédéric Morel, 1584


A scarce work in A CONTEMPORARY FRENCH VELLUM BINDING FOR "LOUYS QUARTAIS", containing 126 verses in French, Latin, and Greek.

4to (213 x 159 mm). Roman and Greek type. collation: A-H4 I2: 34 leaves. Title-page with woodcut printer's ornament, decorative woodcut initials, head-, and tail-pieces. (Some browning and marginal dampstaining.)


binding: Contemporary French vellum over flexible pasteboards (217 x 162 mm), gilt fillet round sides, in centre a laurel wreath containing on upper cover "LOUYS" and on lower cover "QUAR|TAIS", traces of 2 pairs of ties, gilt edges. (Binding soiled.)


provenance: "Louys Quartais", name in gilt on covers—Georgios J. Arvanitidis (c.1876-c.1953), bookplate—Sotheby & Co., London, 26-27 June 1961, lot 40 (part lot), to Panayiotis (Panos) Gratsos (1909-1990) for £40—sold Sotheby's, London, 27-28 September 1990, lot 144. to Bertram Rota, London. acquisition: Purchased in 1991 from E.K. Schreiber, New York. references: Renouard 808; Adams, D-1065; USTC 171188

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