Turnèbe, Adversariorum tomus primus, Paris, 1564, contemporary French mosaïque binding for Claude Cauchon de Maupas

2 works in one volume, large 4to (241 x 157 mm). Roman, italic and some greek type, 29 lines plus headline. (1) collation: *⁴ A-3O⁴ ā⁴ ē⁴ ī⁴ ō⁴ [2]*²: 262 leaves. Woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, ruled in red throughout, a couple of early marginal annotations. (Marginal tear with loss to lower inner corner of [2]*2.) (2) collation: *⁴ A-4G⁴ ā⁴ ē⁴ ī⁴ [2]ā² (final verso blank): 322 leaves. Contents as above. (Closed tear to outer margin of S4.)

binding: French dark brown calf over pasteboards (250 x 169 mm), late 1560s, richly gold tooled, outer border and inner rectangle with excedrae enamelled in grey, surrounded and intersected by freehand gougework of flowing foliage and flowers, leaves and stems enamelled ?dark green, the flowers red, central oval cartouche with volutes at 4 sides and bow formed by single gilt fillets at outer edges between volutes, cartouche containing monogram of 2 interlaced Ms surrounded by motto "TANDEM QVIESCO", spine with 5 full and 2 half bands, traces of 2 pairs of ties, edges gilt, in a fleece-lined folding case. (Rebacked in the nineteenth-century, with old repairs to joints and corners.)

provenance: Claude Cauchon de Maupas (fl. 1549-1598), Abbé de Saint Jean de Laon and Conseiller et Aumônier Ordinaire du Roi—?"Carton", late-sixteenth- or early-seventeenth-century inscription to title—Joseph Renard (1822-1882), bookplate to upper pastedown, his sale, Maurice Delestre & Antoine-Laurent Potier with Adolphe Labitte, Paris, 21-30 March 1881, lot 1060—Thomas Shadford Walker (1834-1885), his sale, Sotheby's, London, 23-24 June 1886, lot 406, £8 10s to—Quaritch, Catalogue 93 ("The motto and monogram seem to be those of Muretus")—Sotheby's, London, 27 February–4 March 1899, lot 1896—Charles George Milnes Gaskell (1842-1919), bookplate dated 1891 to upper pastedown, sale, Hodgson & Co., London, 28–29 February 1924, lot 297, £10 10s to Maggs Bros.—E.P. Goldschmidt (1887-1954), Gothic and Renaissance Book Bindings, 1928, item 234, pl. XCII—Lucius Wilmerding (1879-1949), bookplate to upper endleaf, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Renaissance Bookbindings...with an Address Delivered by Lucius Wilmerding, Grolier Club, 1937, p. 25 & no. 51, his sale, Parke Bernet, part II, 6 March 1951, lot 632—Saul Cohn, his sale, Parke Bernet, part I, 27 April 1955, lot 718—Cornelius J. Hauck (1893-1967), bookplate to upper cover, library bequeathed to Cincinnati Historical Society, sale, Christie's, New York, 27 June 2006, lot 255. acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. references: USTC 153476; USTC 157938. exhibited: Catalogue of a loan collection of ancient & modern bookbindings, exhibited at the Liverpool Art Club (Liverpool 1882), no. 37 (lent by T. Shadford Walker); Lucius Wilmerding, A catalogue of an exhibition of Renaissance bookbindings held at the Grolier Club from December 17, 1936 to January 17, 1937: with an address delivered by Lucius Wilmerding (New York, 1937), p. 25