Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Tournes, Insignium aliquot virorum icones, Lyon, 1559, contemporary limp vellum

Estimate

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

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TOURNES, JEAN DE. Insignium aliquot virorum icones. Lyon: Jean de Tournes, 1559


FIRST EDITION of a charming work, containing 145 small medallion portraits of ancient authors and scholars, each accompanied by a brief biographical note.

Small 8vo (162 x 103 mm). Roman and italic type. collation: A8 A-O8 P1-7: 127 leaves (only, of 128; lacking terminal blank). Title-page with woodcut printer's device of two entwined vipers, 145 in-text woodcut medallion portraits. (Title-page and first text leaf frayed at lower margin, marginal dampstaining towards end of textblock.)


binding: Contemporary limp vellum (166 x 111 mm), flat spine with faded manuscript title at head, plain edges. (Lower cover soiled).


provenance: Marie François Duchesne de Beaumanoir (1756-1830), with inscription on title-page "Ex Bib. M.F. DuChesne de Beaumanoir in Aquitaine Senatu Causarum Patroni. Cat. Inscr. Barde. 1779"—Morris Franklin Tyler (1848-1907), member of the Grolier Club, bookplate—"To Fy, 1-22-1927", presentation inscription on lower margin of bookplate—Aguttes & Alain Cambon, Livres anciens et modernes Manuscrits, Lyon, 1 March 2012, lot 117—Rodolphe Chamonal, Livres anciens (Paris 2014), item 61. acquisition: Purchased in 2015 from Rodolphe Chamonal, Paris. references: Cartier, De Tournes 442; Dekesel T14; Fairfax Murray, French 286; Mortimer Harvard French 527

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