Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Savigny, Tableaux, Paris, 1587, contemporary limp vellum

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18,000 - 24,000 GBP

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SAVIGNY, CHRISTOFLE DE. Tableaux accomplis de tous les arts liberaux. Paris: Jean de Gourmont & François de Gourmont, 1587


A rare instructional compilation designed to educate youth in the principal disciplines in arts and sciences, each depicted in diagrammatic form, with an accompanying explanatory text sheet. Included in the work are two rare world maps; a small woodcut map of the Western Hemisphere in the leaf "Cosmographie" and a large oval woodcut map of the world after Ortelius in "Geographie". According to Shirley, this map is based on the world map in Belleforest's edition of Munster's Cosmographia published in Paris in 1587. The woodcuts have been attributed both to Jean Cousin and Jean de Gourmont (though the blocks do not appear in the latter’s post-mortem inventory, 22 July 1598).

Broadsheets (437 x 325 mm). Roman and italic types. collation: [ ]1 )(2 A-2L1 [ ]1 (2E, 2H and 2I missigned 2G, 2K and 2L): 38 leaves. Elaborate mostly woodcut title with large printer’s device, the imprint in letterpress, full-page dedicatory woodcut, 17 leaves of woodcut charts within elaborate woodcut borders, with accompanying text pages, the text printed within ornamental borders.


binding: Contemporary limp vellum (430 x 330 mm), spine pierced at head and tail by a leather end band, 2 rawhide ties affixing to round white buttons attached on upper cover. (Binding somewhat stained and rubbed.)


provenance: Carthusian owner, inscription to upper endpaper—inscription on title-page—Louis François de Monteynard (1713–1791), first governor of Corsica, Secretary of State for War, engraved armorial bookplate. acquisition: Purchased in 2015 from Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris. references: USTC 1787; Mortimer French 484; Shirley 159A; The French Renaissance in Prints, no. 149 

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