Sallust, De la guerre que les romains feirent a lencontre de Iugurtha, Paris, 1539, Parisian calf gilt for Marcus Fugger with his signature

8vo (163 x 98 mm). Roman type, 31 lines plus headline. collation: A⁸ A-S⁸ T²: 114 leaves. Title-page with woodcut device, woodcut initials. (Some browning.)

binding: Contemporary Parisian brown calf for Marcus Fugger (172 x 109 mm), 3 blind fillets around sides, frame of 3 blind fillets, gilt fleuron at corners, in centre gilt crowned double-headed spread eagle, spine with gilt rosette or quatrefoil in compartments, vellum label in second compartment with title in ink, plain edges with title lettered in ink on fore-edge. (Spine ends and corners renewed, upper endleaf removed.)

provenance: Marcus Fugger, signature "Marcus Fuggerus" and shelfmarks "Arc. 157" "Nro. 234" on pastedown; binding, by descent to—Marquard Fugger, who married Maria Christina, Countess of Öttingen-Wallerstein 1624—Princes of Öttingen-Wallerstein, inkstamp on title, sale, Karl & Faber, Munich, Part 2, 3 May 1933, lot 130—Jean Fürstenberg, sale, Ader Picard Tajan & Claude Guérin, Paris, 31 March 1977, lot 127—Michel Wittock, bookplate, sale, Christie's, Paris, 7 October 2005, lot 47—Alde, Paris, 10 June 2015, lot 1. acquisition: Purchased in 2017 from Librairie Lardanchet, Paris. references: USTC 79814; compare BP16 109506 (naming other publishers, no copy of this issue by Gualtherot "À l’enseigne du mortier d’or" recorded); Hobson & Culot, Italian and French 16th-Century Bookbindings (Brussels 1991), pp. 100-103 (binding reproduced)