Ovidius Naso, Fastorvm Lib. VI. Tristivm Lib. V. De Ponto Lib. IIII., Venice, Heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Heirs of Andrea Torresano, December 1533, olive morocco by Grolier's Last Binder

Ovidius Naso, Publius. Cla. Ptolemaei Inerrantium Stellarum significantiones per Nicolaum Leonicum è graeco translatae. XII Romanorum menses in ueteribus monimentis Romae reperti. Sex priorum mensium digestio ex sex Ouidii Fastorum libris excerpta. P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorvm Lib. VI. Tristivm Lib. V. De Ponto Lib. IIII. In Ibin Ad Liviam. Venice: Heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Heirs of Andrea Torresano, December 1533

A lovely copy, bound by Grolier's Last Binder and originally part of the same set as the Brooker copy of the first volume of this 1533–1534 third Aldine edition of Ovid's works (see lot 1272). The first three quires of this third volume are devoted to a planetary treatise and calendar by Ptolemy, under whose name Adams lists the volume as a separate work. This workshop is mentioned in Bibliotheca Brookeriana: Magnificent Books and Bindings, 11 October 2023, p. 135.

8vo (165 x 98 mm, preserving deckle on a number of leaves). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: π–3π⁸ aaa–zzz⁸ AAA–FFF⁸: 256 leaves (3π6–8, lll6–8, ttt7–8, and FFF4 blank). Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and FFF8v, two-, three-, and four-line initial spaces with guide letters. (Upper margin of title-page browned, small inkstain on ppp3v–4r.)

binding: Parisian olive morocco (168 x 105 mm) by Grolier's Last Binder, 1560s, the covers richly yet sparingly gilt (employing Nixon tools 17a&b, 20a&b, 2a&b, 13, 14, 8, 1) with an interlacing strapwork design of curvilinear rules and floral foliate tools, with an empty oval cartouche at center and double-fillet shaped frame, all within a double-fillet border, smooth spine similarly gilt and lettered at the top OVIDY | FASTORV | ETC:, plain pastedowns, one vellum and four paper flyleaves at front and back, gilt edges.

provenance: "Joachinnia Odin" and "22ƒ," unidentified sixteenth-century inscriptions on front free endpaper [Joachimia?]

— Jean-François Letenneur (Librairie Ancienne des Trois Islets), Saint-Briac-sur-Mer; Jean-François Letenneur, "50th New York Antiquarian Book Fair … List of 128 books to see on our booth", item 122; "Mostra Internationale del Libro Bologna — Italy 24–26 septembre 2010 … List of 110 books to see on booth n° 2", item 108 (P.O.R.). acquisition: Purchased from Felix de Marez Oyens, Paris, 2016. references: UCLA 266 (v.3); Adams P2239, cf. O432; Cataldi Palau 120; Edit16 27209; Renouard 109/8; USTC 845779