Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Plutarchus, La prima (-seconda) parte delle vite, Venice, 1537, contemporary Venetian brown morocco gilt for a member of the Fugger family

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

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PLUTARCHUS. La prima [-seconda] parte delle vite di greco in latino & di latino in volgare tradotte. Novamente da molti errori corrette & con le sue historie ristampate. Venice: Bernardino Bindoni, 1537

A handsome contemporary Venetian binding produced for a member of the Fugger family. For other books with Fugger provenance, see lots 1587 (Amboise), 1606 (Boccaccio), 1683 (Ficino), 1693 (Galen), and 1828 (Sallust).

2 volumes, 8vo (vol.1: 153 x 104 mm; vol.2: 151 x 103 mm). Italic type, 29 lines plus headline. collation: a-z⁸ &⁸ Ƨ⁸ R⁸ 2a-2z⁸ 2&⁸ 2Ƨ⁸ 2R⁸ 3a-3r⁸; A-3V⁸: 552 + 520 leaves.

binding: Contemporary Venetian dark brown morocco (vol.1: 160 x 115 mm; vol.2: 158 x 113 mm), richly gilt, outer frame formed by single gilt fillet and multiple blind fillets, gilt rosette at outer corners, inner frame of single gilt fillet with excedrae at centrepoints flanked by multiple blind fillets, gilt leaf at outer corners, central panel with gilt rosette at corners and large central gilt ornament composed of leafy tools surrounding a flower with leafy stem, traces of 4 pairs of fabric ties, spine with 3 full and 4 half bands, edges gilt with twin dots gauffered around sides, housed in modern black cloth boxes.

provenance: Fugger family, with shelfmark in the hand of a Fugger librarian, by descent to—Öttingen-Wallerstein, family library at Schloss Maihingen, armorial ink-stamp on title-page, sale, Karl & Faber, Munich, Part 3, 11 May 1934, lot 275—Munich-based bookseller Helmuth Domizlaff (1902-1983) circular inkstamp on title-page of each volume. acquisition: Purchased in 1993 from Librairie Thomas-Scheler, Paris. references: USTC 849983; Edit16 CNCE 23131

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