Simeoni, Comentarii sopra alla tetrarchia di Vinegia, Venice, 1546, contemporary red morocco gilt

8vo (151 x 104 mm). Roman and italic type, 28 lines plus headline. collation: *⁴ A-Q⁸: 132 leaves. Woodcut portrait to title-page, woodcut initials and genealogical diagrams. (Title-page (*1) supplied from another volume, small marginal wormhole to final 3 text leaves.)

binding: Contemporary Roman (or possibly Venetian) red morocco over pasteboards (156 x 109 mm), single gilt fillet and 2 blind fillets around sides, in centre panel a network of interlaced quadrilobes formed by a single gilt fillet, each quadrilobe containing a gilt apple at top and bottom with a small rosette between apples, at sides of quadrilobes hexagons containing a cherub, spine with 3 bands, compartments decorated by a looped and interlaced single gilt fillet, between 2 horizontal gilt fillets, traces of 2 pairs of green silk ties, edges gilt and gauffered to a ropework pattern. (Rebacked retaining original spine, upper joint starting.)

provenance: "Ludovico Carpi", early modern ownership inscription—"Cesaro Fabri", ownership inscription dated 1690—"Domineci (?)Lebninore", ownership inscription dated January 1691—"Paulus [...] Mari Baricelle Capilamus", ownership inscription dated June 1742—inkstamp of a religious house with monogrammed initials "SC" —George Dunn of Wooley Hall, near Maidenhead (1865-1912), bookplate by Kelmscott Press, his sale, Sotheby's, part III, 22 November 1917, lot 3780, to—James Tregaskis, London, The 800th Caxton Head catalogue - February 1918 (London 1918), item 371; The 915th Caxton Head catalogue - January 1926 (London 1926), item 41—Sotheby's, London, 12-13 May 1975, lot 823, to—Patrick King Rare Books, Stony Stratford, Catalogue 7 (Stony Stratford [1975?]), item 96. acquisition: Purchased in 2017 from Librairie Lardanchet, Paris. references: cf. USTC 856446; Edit16 CNCE 24589; Adams, S-1158 (with changes to capitalisation on colophon); for an identical binding, see De Marinis I, item 905 (reproduced as Pl. 151)