Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Spagnoli, Primus [-Tertius] operum Mantuani tomus, Paris, 1513, seventeenth-century red morocco gilt for Prince Eugene of Savoy

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6,000 - 8,000 GBP

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SPAGNOLI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA (BAPTISTA MANTUANUS). Primus [-Tertius] operum B. Mantuani tomus. Paris: Josse Bade & Jean Petit, 1513


FINELY BOUND IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY RED MOROCCO FOR PRINCE EUGENE OF SAVOY, by Étienne Boyet le jeune of Vienna. Prince Eugene, who was considered by Napoleon to be one of the only military strategists whose campaigns were worthy of study by posterity, served under three Holy Roman Emperors in campaigns in central Europe and the Balkans as well as in the War of the Grand Alliance (1689-1697) and the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714). His library now forms the core of the Austrian National Library. Prince Eugene's bindings were coloured according to subject matter: red for history (as here), blue for theology and law, and yellow for science books. See Bibliotheca Eugeniana: Die Sammlungen des Prinzen Eugen von Savoyen, edited by Otto Mazal (Vienna 1986), pp. 231-236, for comparable bindings attributed to Boyet.

2 volumes, folio (274 x 195 mm). Roman type. collation: a6 a-z8 &8 A-G8 H1-3 Aa-Xx8 AA-EE8 FF1-9: 408 leaves (of 410; lacking H4 and FF10 blanks). Title-page to each volume printed in red and black with elaborate woodcut border, woodcut initials. (Slight worming to both volumes, lacking H4 blank in first volume and FF10 blank in second volume.)


binding: Red morocco gilt (281 x 208 mm), after 1713, possibly the work of Étienne Boyet le jeune of Vienna, 2 gilt fillets round sides, gilt arms of Prince Eugene of Savoy in the centre, spine with 6 full bands, title in second compartment, Prince Eugene's chiffre in compartments, gilt edges, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, inner dentelles. (Unobtrusive wormhole to bottom spine compartment of first volume.)


provenance: Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663-1736), with his gilt arms (Olivier 787) on bindings—Vienna Hofbibliothek, release stamp of sold duplicates to verso of title-page—Jacques-Joseph Techener, Paris, "Catalogue de livres rares et curieux" in Bulletin du Bibliophile, series 10 (1851-1852), p. 381, item 915—Joachim Gómez de la Cortina (1808-68), bookplate, his library catalogue (Madrid, 1854), item no. 4628 and his sale, Delbergue-Cormont & Librairie Bachelin-Deflorenne, Paris, 21 February-2 March 1872, lot 1439—Librairie Bachelin-Deflorenne, Catalogue de livres rares et curieux (Paris 1873), item 2985—Bernard Quaritch, London, Catalogue 166 (London 1897), item 587—J. Pearson & Co., London, 500 important books, manuscripts, and autograph letters. Volume II (London [1910]), item 315; Two hundred books from the libraries of the world's greatest book collectors (London [1910]), item 108—Sotheby’s, London, 24-26 May 1911, lot 669, to Edwin Parsons & Sons, London—Jean Fürstenberg (1890-1982), red gilt booklabel, bequeathed to Fondation Fürstenberg-Beaumesnil, sale, Wemaëre, de Beaupuis, Denesle, Binoche et Giquello, Paris, 9 December 2013, lot 157. acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. references: BP16 102380

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