Rabutin, Continuation des commentaires des dernieres guerres, contemporary Parisian painted mosaïque binding by the Grand Doreur for Antoine Escalin des Aimars

Large 8vo (180 x 120 mm). Roman type, 28 lines plus headline. collation: A-Z⁸ Aa-Ll⁸ Mm⁴ (final verso blank): 276 leaves. Woodcut initials, ruled in red, manuscript strikethrough to one work on Kk4v. (A few small paper flaws throughout, mostly repaired, two 95 mm repaired tears to Ee6, light browning, dampstaining affecting a few leaves, tear to upper outer corner of G2.)

binding: Contemporary Parisian painted mosaique binding (192 x 130 mm) by the Grand Doreur, ?Gommar Estienne, brown morocco over pasteboard, painted in black and tooled in silver to a freehand design of central medallion and leafy scrolls, upper cover with the gilt and painted arms of Polin de la Garde on painted red ground with a collar of St. Michel, lower cover with a tooled and painted emblematic design of clasped hands stamp, floral and palm branches and gilt banderole lettered in Greek "παρεχει την χαριν η πιστως η τουτο η εκεινο", flat spine similarly tooled and painted, fore-edges silvered and gauffered to a floral design, 2 pairs of ties alternating in black and green, modern chemise and slipcase. (Small neat repairs to spine and corners, gilding and painting retouched, ties renewed.)

provenance: Antoine Escalin des Aimars, baron Polin de la Garde (1498-1578), binding—?"Fame", inscription to title-page—Leon Techener (1832-1888), his sale, Paris, 28 May 1889, lot 199, and Album de planches à l'eau-forte et à l'héliogravure: représentant les principales reliures comprises dans les ventes de 1887 et 1889 de la bibliothèque particulière de Léon Techener (Paris 1889), Pl.[18]—Alphonse Parran (1826-1903)—Librairie Damascène Morgand, Bulletin mensuel - No. 54, Décembre 1901 (Paris, 1901), no. 41724—Adolphe Bordes, Bordeaux (1858-1918)—Jean A. Bonna (b.1945), ex-libris, his sale, Christie's, London, 16 June 2015, lot 62. acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. references: USTC 7047; Joannis Guigard, Nouvel armorial du bibliophile: guide de l'amateur des livres armoriés (Paris 1890), II, p. 204 (this copy cited and arms reproduced from Techener’s Album); Geoffrey Hobson, Maioli, Canevari and others (London 1926), pp. 113-114 (cited, in a list of 5 books on which a pair of clasped hands is stamped)