Beschreibung:

Celsus, Aulus Cornelius. In hoc volumine haec continentur. Aurelii Cornelii Celsii Medicinae libri. VIII. Quam emendatissimi, Graecis etiam omnibus dictionibus restitutis. Quinti Sereni Liber de medicina et ipse castigatiss. Accedit index in Celsum, et Serenum sane quam copiosus. Venice: heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, March 1528
First Aldine edition, a second copy.
This copy was acquired in Bologna by Heinrich IV zu Castell (1525-1595), the third of four sons of Wolfgang zu Castell, educated at Dôle and Orléans (1538-1542), Bologna and Padua (1543-1546), afterwards a diplomat in imperial service. He had followed his cousins Nikolaus von Ebeleben and Damian Pflug to Italy, and while in Bologna had some 43 volumes bound for him, of which eight were in Italian and the remainder Aldine editions of the Latin classics. All have an outer border of three blind fillets, an inner gilt panel of a twisted leaf roll, and a central arabesque cartouche on the upper board containing the title and the family arms on the lower cover. The tools are firmly connected to the shop of the Pflug & Ebeleben Master, the most important purveyor of fine bindings in Bologna, patronised also by Heinrich’s cousins (it made some 35 bindings for Ebeleben and seven for Pflug). The majority of Heinrich’s Italian bindings passed in the eighteenth century to Christian Ernst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1691-1771), and remained in that family until the 1930s.
4to (210 x 128 mm). Italic type, 40 lines plus headline. collation: *8 a-ſ8 t4 u-x8: 172 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title- page and final verso.
binding: Bolognese binding, ca. 1544, by the Pflug & Ebeleben Binder (215 x 143 mm), crimson goatskin, gold tooled, border of multiple impressions of foliate tool linked by short strokes, small fleurons in corners, in center of upper cover cartouche of solid arabesque tools, enclosing AVR. | CORNE. |CEL., arms of Count Heinrich zu Castell on lower cover, spine with three raised bands, and four semi-raised bands, second with pink gilt letting piece, others tooled in blind, edges gilt and gauffered to an elaborate knotwork pattern, housed in a cloth box. (Restoration to head and foot of spine.).
provenance: Heinrich IV zu Castell (1525-1595) (armorial supralibros; inscription "1.5. E .62 | Spero et Experior | Heinricus comes ac d(omi)n(us) in Castell" on title-page) — Christian Ernst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1691-1771, bookplate to front pastedown; armorial exlibris stamp of Stolberg Library on title-page) — Jean Fürstenberg (1890-1982, bookplate to front pastedown). acquisition: Purchased from Martin Breslauer Inc., 1983. references: UCLA 250; Cataldi Palau 113; Edit16 10745; Renouard 105/1; USTC 821545; De Marinis, Die italienischen Renaissance-Einbände der Bibliothek Fürstenberg (Hamburg 1966), pp.104-105; Bernard H. Breslauer, Count Heinrich IV zu Castell: a German Renaissance book collector and the bindings made for him during his student years in Orléans, Paris, and Bologna (Austin, TX 1987), p.30 (Books bound in Bologna by the Ebeleben Master still extant, no. 14 & Pls. 1 and 4)