Porzio, La congiura de' baroni, Rome, [anonymous press], 1565?, early seventeenth-century French red morocco

Porzio, Camillo. La congiura de' baroni del regno di Napoli, contra il re Ferdinando primo, raccolta dal s. Camillo Portio. Rome: [anonymous press], 1565

The Peiresc-Soubise-Leclerc-Conte della Trinità-McLaughlin copy, with Soubise ink pressmarks.

Counterfeit of the Aldine 1565 edition, with Aldine anchor to the title. This is distinguished by "73" instead of "75" on the first line of the last page and typographical irregularities of the italic type. Edit16 suggests it was printed after 1565. See lot 601.

4to (215 x 151 mm). Roman type, 32 lines plus headline. collation: §⁴ A-Y⁴: 100 leaves. Counterfeit Aldine device to title- page. (Intermittent spotting, marginal discoloration to first and last leaves.)

binding: Early seventeenth-century French red morocco (219 x 158 mm), presumably by Simon Corberan at Aix-en- Provence, triple gilt fillet around sides, gilt monogram of N.C. Fabri de Peiresc in center of covers, spine gilt with small flower in compartments, red speckled edges. (Head and tail of spine slightly rubbed with minor loss, adhesive stain to endleaves.)

provenance: Nicolas-Claude Fabri Peiresc (1580-1637), supralibros, his monogram (ΝΚΦ) in centre of covers — Palamède Fabri de Valavez (1582-ca.1538/1546) — Claude Fabri de Rians (1607-1666) — Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise (1715- 1787), pressmark "3. C.p.T.4.C.13" on front pastedown and "E.4.C.13" on upper cover — Charles-Guillaume Leclerc, Paris, 12 January-20 May 1789, lot 6701 (part lot) — Filiberto Remigio Costa, Conte della Trinità (d. 1826), armorial ex libris — Adrian Leigh McLaughlin (1910-1979), ex libris — Sotheby's Monte Carlo, 7-8 October 1980, lot 1932. acquisition: Purchased at Sotheby's via Martin Breslauer Inc. references: Renouard 199/18; Edit16 73026; USTC 851014; Cf. Isabelle de Conihout, "Du nouveau sur la bibliothèque de Peiresc" in Peiresc et l'Italie: Actes du Colloque international, Naples, 23-24 juin 2006 (Paris, 2009), pp. 243-263; Cf. Agnès Bresson, "Les livres et les manuscrits d'un chercheur. La place de la bibliothèque dans le cabinet de Peiresc" in Bulletin du bibliophile (2007), pp. 280-310.