Cicero, Marcus Tullius. M. Tullii Ciceronis Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad Quintum fratrem, multorum locorum correctione illustratae, ut, post omneis omnium editiones, exeant emendatissime. In quas omneis epistolae commentarij, separatim impressi, propediem edentur, auctore Paulo Manutio Aldi filio. Venice: Paolo Manuzio, November 1544
The Mahieu-de Thou-Abbey copy, in a fine Parisian binding. A reprint of Paolo Manuzio's new text of the Epistolae ad Atticum, previously published in 1540, retaining its dedicatory letter to Guillaume Pellicier. This copy was bound for Thomas Mahieu by Gommar Estienne.
On fol. 41r in this edition is found Cicero’s letter to Atticus (Book 3, letter 5), which provided Maioli’s motto "inimici mei mea mihi"; see Frederick B. Adams, "Maioli’s mottoes and monograms" in Festschrift Otto Schäfer zum 75. Geburtstag (Stuttgart 1987), pp.451-459, and the introductory essay in Bibliotheca Brookeriana, part I, 11 October 2023.
8vo (161 x 99 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-Z8 AA-VV8 XX4: 348 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final leaf (otherwise blank).
binding: Parisian binding (166 x 103 mm), ca. 1552, by Gomar Estienne for Thomas Mahieu, brown calf, richly gilt, decorated to an architectonic design, azured leaf-and-bud tools in center around a shaped cartouche containing M.T.C./ EPIST./AD/ ATTICVM on upper cover and Mahieu’s complex monogram on lower, in a cloth folding case. (Rebacked preserving most of the original spine panel, other restoration to corners, side panels slightly dry and cracked).
provenance: Thomas Mahieu (ca. 1515/1527-after 1588, bookplate, his monogram on lower cover) — Jacques Auguste de Thou (1553-1617, with his name on the title and at foot of colophon; Pierre Dupuy, Catalogus bibliothecae Thuanae, Paris, 7 April 1680, II, p.255 [not traced in 1789 Soubise sale catalogue] — Lionel Tollemache Earl of Dysart (1708-1770, sale, Sotheby’s, Catalogue of the renowned library removed from Ham House, Surrey, and sold by order of the Buckminster Estates, The first portion, London, 30-31 May 1938, lot 83, bought by Maggs Bros) — John Roland Abbey (1894-1969, sale, Sotheby’s London, 21-23 June 1965, lot 197, bought by Maggs Bros) — Charles van der Elst (1904-1982) — Ader Picard Tajan & Claude Guérin, Monte Carlo, 13 May 1985, lot 54. acquisition: Purchased at preceding sale via Martin Breslauer Inc. references: UCLA 320; Edit16 12257; Renouard 129/2; Anthony Hobson French and Italian collectors and their bindings illustrated from examples in the library of J.R. Abbey (Oxford 1953), no. 14 (this copy); A. Hobson, “Les livres reliés pour Thomas Mahieu” in Bulletin du bibliophile (2004), pp.239-270 (p.250 no. 36)
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. M. Tullii Ciceronis Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad Quintum fratrem, multorum locorum correctione illustratae, ut, post omneis omnium editiones, exeant emendatissime. In quas omneis epistolae commentarij, separatim impressi, propediem edentur, auctore Paulo Manutio Aldi filio. Venice: Paolo Manuzio, November 1544
The Mahieu-de Thou-Abbey copy, in a fine Parisian binding. A reprint of Paolo Manuzio's new text of the Epistolae ad Atticum, previously published in 1540, retaining its dedicatory letter to Guillaume Pellicier. This copy was bound for Thomas Mahieu by Gommar Estienne.
On fol. 41r in this edition is found Cicero’s letter to Atticus (Book 3, letter 5), which provided Maioli’s motto "inimici mei mea mihi"; see Frederick B. Adams, "Maioli’s mottoes and monograms" in Festschrift Otto Schäfer zum 75. Geburtstag (Stuttgart 1987), pp.451-459, and the introductory essay in Bibliotheca Brookeriana, part I, 11 October 2023.
8vo (161 x 99 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-Z8 AA-VV8 XX4: 348 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final leaf (otherwise blank).
binding: Parisian binding (166 x 103 mm), ca. 1552, by Gomar Estienne for Thomas Mahieu, brown calf, richly gilt, decorated to an architectonic design, azured leaf-and-bud tools in center around a shaped cartouche containing M.T.C./ EPIST./AD/ ATTICVM on upper cover and Mahieu’s complex monogram on lower, in a cloth folding case. (Rebacked preserving most of the original spine panel, other restoration to corners, side panels slightly dry and cracked).
provenance: Thomas Mahieu (ca. 1515/1527-after 1588, bookplate, his monogram on lower cover) — Jacques Auguste de Thou (1553-1617, with his name on the title and at foot of colophon; Pierre Dupuy, Catalogus bibliothecae Thuanae, Paris, 7 April 1680, II, p.255 [not traced in 1789 Soubise sale catalogue] — Lionel Tollemache Earl of Dysart (1708-1770, sale, Sotheby’s, Catalogue of the renowned library removed from Ham House, Surrey, and sold by order of the Buckminster Estates, The first portion, London, 30-31 May 1938, lot 83, bought by Maggs Bros) — John Roland Abbey (1894-1969, sale, Sotheby’s London, 21-23 June 1965, lot 197, bought by Maggs Bros) — Charles van der Elst (1904-1982) — Ader Picard Tajan & Claude Guérin, Monte Carlo, 13 May 1985, lot 54. acquisition: Purchased at preceding sale via Martin Breslauer Inc. references: UCLA 320; Edit16 12257; Renouard 129/2; Anthony Hobson French and Italian collectors and their bindings illustrated from examples in the library of J.R. Abbey (Oxford 1953), no. 14 (this copy); A. Hobson, “Les livres reliés pour Thomas Mahieu” in Bulletin du bibliophile (2004), pp.239-270 (p.250 no. 36)
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