Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Terracina, Rime, Venice, 1550, Roman tan morocco gilt by Niccolò Franzese, contemporary gift binding

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

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TERRACINA, LAURA. Rime... Et nel fine una diceria d’amore, del Doni. Venice: Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari & Brothers, 1550 [bound with:]


SANNAZARO, JACOPO. Sonetti et canzoni... novamente corretti, e ristampati. Venice: Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari, 1549 [and:]


D'ARAGONA, TULLIA. Rime... et di diversi a lei. Di novo ristampate et in piu luoghi corrette. Venice: Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari, 1549


THREE POETIC WORKS PUBLISHED BY GIOLITO, BOUND TOGETHER IN A CONTEMPORARY ROMAN GIFT BINDING BY FRANZESE. The mottos on the covers translate as "God makes [happen] what may bind together [in friendship]" and "If the gift is small and well desired [it] may be requested". Amongst these works is the third Giolito edition of Terracina's Rime (the first appeared in 1548). For another Franzese binding featuring a clasped hands tool (bound for Apollonio Filareto), see A. Hobson, Apollo and Pegasus, plate B.

3 works in one volume, 12mo (125 x 78 mm). Italic type. collation: (1) A-E12; (2) A-D12 E6; (3) A-C12 D4: 60 + 54 + 40 leaves. Title-page and final leaf of each work with woodcut printer's device. (Some light spotting.)


binding: Contemporary Roman light brown morocco (129 x 81 mm), by Niccolò Franzese (or his brother Pietro), richly gilt, double gilt fillets round sides, border of egg and dart motif, large solid leafy tools above and below motto on upper cover lettered in gold "DIO FAC[C]IA | CHE STRIN|NGA", and on lower cover "SEL DONO | E POCO I BV | ON VOLER | E SVPLISCE" above and below clasped hands, spine with 3 full bands and 4 false bands, edges gilt and gauffered.


provenance: Giovanni Gancia, Brighton & Paris, sale Delbergue-Cormont & Adolphe Labitte, Paris, 11-12 April 1872, lot 230—Thore Virgin (1886-1957), Bibliotheca Qvanforsiana—Rolf Wistrand (1912-1974)—Bassenge Auktion 1069, Berlin, 22 October 2015, lot 1099. acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. references: (1) Edit16 CNCE 54728; USTC 858861; (2) Edit16 CNCE 26158; USTC 854680; (3) Edit16 CNCE 2288; USTC 810165; Hälsingborgs Museum, Utställning av 1400- och 1500-talstryck samt konstnärliga bokband ur Thore Virgins samling på Qvarnfors (Malmö 1944), p. 58, no. 98; Isak Gustaf Alfred Collijn, Bibliotheca Qvarnforsiana: ett urval av 1400-och 1500-talstryck samt konstnärliga bokband ur Thore Virgins samling på Qvarnfors (Uppsala 1947), p. 51, no. 206

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