Suetonius, XII Caesares, Venice, Heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, 1516, Roman dark brown morocco, ca. 1520
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June 25, 06:00 PM GMT
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3,500 - 5,500 USD
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2,500 USD
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Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius. In hoc volumine haec continentur. C. Suetonij Tranquilli XII Caesares. Sexti Aurelij Victoris a d. Caesare Augusto usque ad Theodosium excerpta. Eutropij de gestis Romanorum lib. X. Pauli Diaconi libri VIII ad Eutropij historiam additi. Venice: Heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, August 1516
Another copy, in a handsome contemporary Roman brown morocco binding, from an important and prolific but unidentified Roman workshop. The unusual “windblown” finial on the large fleuron is found on several other bindings: cf., Martin Breslauer Catalogue 110: item 17, and de Marinis, La Legatura artistica, nos. 450, 559, and 597. The ropework border is found on de Marinis no. 552, and the tools of the central ornament appear on de Marinis no. 563.
8vo (159 x 85 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: *-**8 χ-2χ8 a-z8 aa-rr8: 352 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device to title-page and verso of last leaf. (Intermittent light toning and dampstaining, marginal closed tear to aa1.)
binding: Roman dark brown morocco, ca. 1520 (162 x 92 mm), border of repeated gilt knotwork tool, small squares at top and bottom of central panel containing gilt flowers in two rows of four each, in center rectangle gilt fleuron in corners and six marguerites and four flowers in center, traces of two pairs of ties, gilt and gauffered edges. (Areas of restoration to spine and corners, endleaves and pastedowns renewed, gilt edges rubbed in places.)
provenance: Unidentified owner, occasional early marginalia — Jean Fürstenberg (1890-1982) — Martin Breslauer Inc., New York, Catalogue 104/II (New York 1981), item 139; and Catalogue 110 (New York 1992), item 19. acquisition: Purchased from Martin Breslauer Inc., New York, 1993. references: UCLA 147; Renouard 77/5; Edit16 53872; USTC 857771; for this binding: Musée d'art et d'histoire, Collection Jean Furstenberg: 3 mai-5 juin 1966 (Geneva 1966), no. 6; Tammaro De Marinis, Die italienischen Renaissance-Einbände der Bibliothek Fürstenberg (Hamburg 1966), pp. 44-45
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