Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Simeoni, Comentarii sopra alla tetrarchia di Vinegia, Venice, 1548, by the Mahieu Aesop Binder for Thomas Mahieu

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80,000 - 120,000 GBP

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SIMEONI, GABRIELE. Comentarii di Gabriello Symeoni fiorentino sopra alla tetrarchia di Vinegia, di Milano, di Mantova, et di Ferrara. Venice: Comin da Trino, 1548


SECOND 1548 EDITION BOUND BY THE MAHIEU AESOP BINDER FOR THOMAS MAHIEU.


This binding is no. 75 in Maioli, Canevari and others and no. 99 in the expanded list in Anthony Hobson, "Livres reliés pour Thomas Mahieu" (Bulletin du Bibliophile, 2004, pp. 239-270). An almost identical binding, on a 1502 Aldine Catullus, survives at Trinity College Dublin (Quin 1245), no. 34 in Anthony Hobson's expanded census.


For further lots in the present sale bound for Thomas Mahieu, see lots 1662 (Doni) and (1767) Montalbani and, for another example by the Mahieu Aesop Binder, see Bibliotheca Brookeriana I, New York, 11 October 2023, lot 29.

8vo (153 x 96 mm). Roman and italic type, 28 lines plus headline. collation: A-Q8: 128 leaves (final verso blank). Woodcut author portrait on title-page, 3 full-page genealogical diagrams of the Visconti, Gonzaga, and d'Este families, woodcut initials. (Slight dampstain to lower outer corner of some leaves, 25 x 20 mm loss to lower outer corner of B6.)


binding: French olive-brown morocco (156 x 103 mm) by the Mahieu Aesop Binder for Thomas Mahieu, c. 1550, richly gold tooled, lozenge formed by double gilt fillets within a double rectangle, interlaced at corners, and leading to a central cartouche containing "COMENT|DI.GABR.|SYMEONI" on upper cover and Mahieu's motto "INIMICI.MEI|MEA.MICHI|NON.ME|MICHI" on lower cover, interstices with leafy tendrils and azured tooling, "THO.MAIOLI|ET.AMICORVM" to foot of upper cover, spine with 4 full bands, second compartment with author and title, others with single tool at centre stamped over with Pétau's monogram, edges gilt. (Very minor restorations to binding.)


provenance: Thomas Mahieu (fl. 1547-1580s), principal secretary to Catherine de Medicis from 1572 and Treasurer of France, binding—Paul Pétau (1568-1614), by descent to—Alexandre Pétau (d. 1672), by descent until sold, Abraham de Hondt, The Hague, 23 February-10 March 1722, lot 538—Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland (1664-1722), by descent until sold, Puttick & Simpson, 1883, lot 11930, £140 to Quaritch—Baron Lucien Double (1846-1896), bookplate, his Cabinet d'un curieux: Description de quelques livres rares (Paris 1892), pp. 70-72, no. 67 (illustrated), his sale, Techener, 22 February 1897, lot 60—M. Lecour (cf. Hobson)—André Langlois (1873-1975), bookplate—sold Christie's, London, 4 June 2003, lot 72. acquisition: Purchased in 2017 from Stéphane Clavreuil, London. references: Edit16 CNCE 24604; USTC 856449; G.D. Hobson, Maioli, Canevari and others (1926), no. 75; A. Hobson, "Livres reliés pour Thomas Mahieu", Bulletin du Bibliophile, 2004, pp. 239-270, no. 99

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