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Bibliotheca Brookeriana VIII
3 December - 17 December 2025 • Paris
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1 Accolti, Lo inganno de gl'occhi, Florence, 1625, armorial red morocco gilt for Núñez de Guzmán, Godolphin copy
2 Acosta, Conciones in Quadragesimam, Venice, 1599, red morocco richly gilt, presentation copy
3 Aesopus, Fabellae Graece et Latine, Basel, 1534, contemporary Bolognese dark brown morocco
4 Albani, Libri de potestate papae et concilii, Venice, 1561, contemporary Roman red morocco gilt by Marcantonio Guillery
5 Alberti, De pictura libri tres, Basel, 1540, later binding reusing a vellum manuscript leaf
6 Alberti, I dieci libri de l'architettura, Venice, 1546, modern half vellum
7 Alberti, La pittura, Venice, 1547, later half red calf
8 Alberti, Trattato della nobilta della pittura, Rome, 1585, later half calf, Storck copy
9 Albertus Patavinus, Ordinis eremitarum, Venice, 1523, dedication copy for Cardinal Lorenzo Campeggio
10 Alciati, Emblematum liber, Augsburg, 1531, with an autograph letter by Alciati, later vellum
11 Alciati, Emblematum liber, Augsburg, 1531, and other works, contemporary German calf, Brassicanus's copy
12 Alciati, Livret des emblemes, Paris, 1536, annotated, later vellum
13 Alciati, Emblematum libellus, Paris, 1542, red morocco gilt by Lortic, Munich-Huth-Bright copy
14 Alciati, Emblemes d'Alciat, Lyon, 1549, brown morocco gilt with monogram of Thomas Mahieu
15 Alciati, Emblemata, Frankfurt, 1567, calf gilt with arms of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm of Saxe-Weimar
16 Alciati, Omnia emblemata, Antwerp, Plantin, 1574, contemporary vellum
17 Alciati, Iudiciarii processus compendium, Venice, 1537, contemporary limp vellum
18 Alciati, De verborum significatione, Lyon, 1546, contemporary French calf
19 Alexander Aphrodisiensis, Quaestiones naturales, morales et de fato, Venice, 1541, contemporary calf
20 Amboise, Les contrepistres d'Ovide; Le tableau de Cebes, Paris, 1543, Parisian brown calf gilt for Marcus Fugger
21 Aneau, Picta poesis, Lyon, 1552, contemporary limp vellum, Vershbow copy
22 Anselmi, Epigrammaton libri septem, Venice, 1528, contemporary Venetian brown morocco gilt
23 Ariosto, Orlando furioso, Venice, sons of Aldus, 1545, green morocco with gilt Aldine device
24 Ariosto, Orlando furioso, Venice, 1546, Venetian green morocco by the Fugger Binder for Perrenot de Granvelle
25 Aristophanes, Comoediae novem, Venice, Aldus, 1498, brown morocco gilt by Clarke and Bedford
26 Aristotle, Poetica, Venice, Aldus, 1536, later tan calf gilt
27 Aristotle, Libri quatuor de coelo et mundo, Lyon, 1542, contemporary Venetian chestnut morocco
28 Aristotle, Libri physicorum octo, Lyon, 1542, contemporary Venetian chestnut morocco gilt
29 Arrianus, De expeditione sive rebus gestis Alexandri, Basel, 1539, gilt-tooled brown morocco
30 Arrianus, De expeditione sive rebus gestis Alexandri, Basel, 1539, Leipzig calf binding, Johannes Wolf copy
31 Arrighi, De beatitudine hominis libri tres, Florence, 1569, dedication copy, armorial binding for Gregory XIII
32 Aventinus, Annalium boiorum libri septem, Ingolstadt, 1554, Roman brown morocco by the Vatican Bindery
33 Avila y Zuñiga, Commentariorum de bello Germanico, Antwerp, 1550, Bohemian armorial calf dated 1553 for Christopher the Elder Popel of Lobkowicz
34 Baif, Annotationes in legem II, Basel, 1537, contemporary Roman morocco for Fernando de Torres
35 Bembo, Gli Asolani, Venice, Aldus, 1505, second issue, later vellum, Charles Butler copy
36 Bembo, Epistolarum libri XVI, Lyon, 1540, Roman impresa binding by Niccolò Franzese for Apollonio Filareto
37 [Biblia sacra polyglotta], volume VIII, Antwerp, 1571-72, Roman pink morocco bound for Cardinal Guglielmo Sirleto
38 Bible, Greek, Venice, Aldus, 1518, contemporary Venetian morocco, Bartolomeo Piccolomini's copy
39 [Bible. N.T. Greek] Της καινης διαθηκης απαντα; part 2 only, Paris, 1549, contemporary Parisian brown morocco gilt by Wotton Binder C
40 [Bible. Latin] Biblia, Paris, Estienne, 1545, 2 volumes, Roman russet morocco
41 [Bible] Psalterium, Venice, Aldus, [not after 1498], contemporary Roman medallion binding
42 [Bible] Liber Psalmorum Davidis, [Geneva], 1556, French tan calf gilt, Nicolas Psaume's copy
43 [Bible] Davidis Psalmi, Paris, 1576, contemporary French polychrome and inlaid binding
44 [Bible] Pseaumes de David mis en vers François, Rouen, 1593, contemporary French brown morocco gilt
45 La Biblia, Venice, 1547, Parisian armorial morocco by Wotton Binder C for Paolo Giordano Orsini
46 Billon, Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld
47 Billy, Exhortation au peuple francois, Paris, 1584, contemporary Parisian limp vellum gilt with fore-edge flaps
48 Boccaccio, Des nobles maleureux, Paris, 1538, contemporary Parisian tan calf gilt for Marcus Fugger