Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Piccolomini, De la institutione di tutta la vita de l'homo, Venice, 1545, contemporary brown morocco gilt for A.S.

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

Lot Details

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PICCOLOMINI, ALESSANDRO. De la institutione di tutta la vita de l'homo nato nobile e in città libera, libri X in lingua toscana dove e peripateticamente e platonicamente, intorno a le cose de l'ethica, iconomica, e parte de la politica, è raccolta la somma di quanto principalmente può concorrere a la perfetta e felice vita di quello. Composti dal signor Alessandro Piccolomini, a beneficio del nobilissimo fanciullino Alessandro Colombini, pochi giorni innanzi nato, figlio de la immortale mad. Laudomia Forteguerri. Al quale, (havendolo egli sostenuto a battesimo) secondo l'usanza dei compari: de i detti libri fà dono. Venice: Girolamo Scoto, 1545


A RICHLY GILT CONTEMPORARY BROWN MOROCCO BINDING FOR THE AS YET UNIDENTIFIED OWNER "A.S."


A similar binding, featuring the same initials A.S. between two impressions of the same vase tool, within a frame formed by repeated impressions of the same arabesque tool, covers a copy of Piccolomini's Cento sonetti (Venice 1549), now in the British Library (Foot, Davis Gift III, no. 53). That binding features four impressions of a crowned dolphin tool and is described as French by Anthony Hobson, "Une note sur le fer de reliure d'un dauphin" in Bulletin du bibliophile (1990), pp. 139-142; however, Mirjam Foot asserts it is "A binding made in France or possibly in Italy, c. 1550".

8vo (157 x 105 mm). Italic type, 29 lines plus headline. collation: A-2M8 (final leaf blank): 280 leaves. Woodcut initials.


binding: Contemporary French or possibly Italian light-brown morocco (163 x 114 mm), multiple blind fillets around sides, gilt frames with fleur-de-lys at corners, the central area lavishly gilt-tooled with frames filled with floral and vine tools and scrollwork, in the centre the initials "A.S.", spine with 4 raised bands, a gilt tool in each compartment, stubs from 2 pairs of ties, edges gilt, in a cloth box. (Binding with a few small stains, minor skilful restorations to spine, small wormhole to head compartment, ties missing.)


provenance: A.S., initials on binding—Sotheby's, London, 3 March 1969, lot 102—Harry A. Levinson, Beverly Hills, Catalogue 60: Part 3, M-R (1966-1972), item 961 & Pl. 207—Sotheby's, London, 9 May 1985, lot 463. acquisition: Purchased in 1989 from Martin Breslauer Inc., New York. references: USTC 848293; Edit16 CNCE 31702.

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