Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Tolomei, De le lettere libri sette, Venice, 1550, contemporary limp vellum for a member of the Fugger family

Estimate

800 - 1,200 GBP

Lot Details

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TOLOMEI, CLAUDIO. De le lettere di M. Claudio Tolomei libri sette. Con nuova aggiunta ristampate, & con somma diligenza corrette. Venice: Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari & Brothers, 1550


A fine copy of this collection of humanist letters, first published in 1547, BOUND FOR A MEMBER OF THE FUGGER FAMILY. For another octavo volume in limp vellum from the Fugger family library, see lot 1712 (Giovio).

8vo (156 x 97 mm). Italic and some greek type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-2P8: 304 leaves. Woodcut publisher's device on title-page and recto of final leaf, woodcut initials, woodcut map on A5v.


binding: Contemporary pale limp vellum (164 x 112 mm), slight fore-edge flaps, title in ink on upper cover in a sixteenth-century neat humanistic hand, flat spine with early title in ink running down, remains of 2 pasted labels, edges gilt. (Binding slightly rubbed and soiled.)


provenance: Fugger family library, eighteenth-century shelfmark on upper endleaf, by descent to—Fürstlich Öttingen-Wallerstein'sche Bibliothek, Harburg—sale, Sotheby's, 5 December 1991, lotted and not described. acquisition: Purchased in 1992 from Sokol Books, London. references: USTC 859284; Edit16 CNCE 67432

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