Cicero, Marcus Tullius. [Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium libri IIII incerto auctore [part 1 (of 4)]: De inventione libri II]. Venice: heirs of Aldo Manuzio, September 1546
[Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium libri IIII incerto auctore, parts 2-3 (of 4):] De oratore, Ciceronis ad Q. fratrem libri III. Venice: sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1546. [Bound with:] De claris oratoribus Ciceronis liber, qui inscribitur Brutus variae lectiones ex antiquis libris, & ex ingenio. Venice: sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1546
Tullii Ciceronis Orationum pars I [-III]. Cum correctionibus Pauli Manutii. Venice: Paolo Manuzio, 1554 (3 volumes)
Tullii Ciceronis Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad Quintum fratrem, cum correctionibus Pauli Manutij. Venice: Paolo Manuzio, 1555
Six volumes from a set of Cicero’s works bound in Paris by Grolier’s Last Binder, a shop working repeatedly for Jean Grolier (1489-1565) during the last ten years of life (he commissioned at least 23 bindings from it), and continuing for a short while after Grolier’s death. The shop also bound forty volumes for Claude III de Laubespine. The original owner for whom these bindings were executed is unknown. These six volumes contain inscriptions of three subsequent owners: “Simleri et amicorum”, evidently a member of the family from Kappel am Albis, near Zurich, and Giovanni Paravicini and Dario Paravicini, from the same town, the latter inscribing the books in 1715 while a student at Chur in the Grison. They are next recorded in the possession of Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham (17971878), entered in his 1864 library catalogue as part of a larger group of nine volumes, comprising the six offered here, plus De philosophia in two volumes (1555-1556), and De officiis (1555). The nine volumes were offered in the first instalment of the Ashburnham sale in 1897, where bought by the London booksellers J. & J. Leighton. The group was subsequently broken up and has now been partly reassembled.
See previous lot for another similar but not identical binding from the same workshop.
6 volumes, 8vo (152 x 95 mm), italic type, 30 lines plus headline. (1) A-Y8 Z4: 180 leaves. (2) A-Q8 R10: 138 leaves; A-G8: 56 leaves. (3-4) A-Z8 AA-SS8: 328 leaves; aa-zz8 Aa-Oo8 Pp4: 300 leaves. (5) aaa-zzz8 AAA-OOO8: 296 leaves. (6) A-Z8 AA-VV8 XX8: 348 leaves. (Occasional minor marginal stains.)
binding: Parisian bindings (159 x 104 mm), ca. 1560, uniformly bound by Grolier’s Last Binder, olive goatskin, each with gilt blocked arabesque corners and large centerpiece, gilt edges; III-VI) all volumes have 4 endleaves at the beginning and end, except vol. 1 of Orationes which has only 3 at the beginning, with watermarks: pot with one handle and a crown, similar to Briquet 12742 (Chartres 1557) and 12731-12793 (variously, 1550-1580s). (Vol. I rebacked; vols. II-VI with later titling in second and third compartments of spine, a few stains on covers, wear at ends of spines of three volumes, some other minor areas of rubbing.)
provenance: Unidentified owner (inscription "Simleri et amicorum" or similar on all title-pages) — Giovanni Paravicini di Capelli (inscription) — Dario Paravicini di Capelli (inscription) — Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878, A Catalogue alphabetically arranged of the more rare and curious printed books in the library at Ashburnham Place ([London?] 1864), unpaginated (q.v. Cicero, “various works collected in 9 volumes”, sale, Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge, 25 June-3 July 1897, lot 1110, “together 9 vol. … some vol. with autographs of Joannes Pallavicini and Simleri et Amicorum”, £5- 12-6 to) — J. & J. Leighton, London [at this stage the set was broken up]. Vol. 1: Christie, Manson & Woods, New York, 9 June 1999, lot 34. acquisition: Purchased from the preceding sale via Robin Halwas. Vols. 2-4: Leo Olschki, ticket. acquisition: Purchased from Martin Breslauer Inc., New York, 1987. Vol. 5: acquisition: Purchased from Martin Breslauer Inc., New York, 1987. Vol. 6: acquisition: Purchased from Sokol Books, London, 2020. references: UCLA 346, 468, 476, 346; Edit16 12274, 12322, 12317, 12274; Renouard 136/7, 161/13, 161/17, 136/7
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. [Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium libri IIII incerto auctore [part 1 (of 4)]: De inventione libri II]. Venice: heirs of Aldo Manuzio, September 1546
[Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium libri IIII incerto auctore, parts 2-3 (of 4):] De oratore, Ciceronis ad Q. fratrem libri III. Venice: sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1546. [Bound with:] De claris oratoribus Ciceronis liber, qui inscribitur Brutus variae lectiones ex antiquis libris, & ex ingenio. Venice: sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1546
Tullii Ciceronis Orationum pars I [-III]. Cum correctionibus Pauli Manutii. Venice: Paolo Manuzio, 1554 (3 volumes)
Tullii Ciceronis Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad Quintum fratrem, cum correctionibus Pauli Manutij. Venice: Paolo Manuzio, 1555
Six volumes from a set of Cicero’s works bound in Paris by Grolier’s Last Binder, a shop working repeatedly for Jean Grolier (1489-1565) during the last ten years of life (he commissioned at least 23 bindings from it), and continuing for a short while after Grolier’s death. The shop also bound forty volumes for Claude III de Laubespine. The original owner for whom these bindings were executed is unknown. These six volumes contain inscriptions of three subsequent owners: “Simleri et amicorum”, evidently a member of the family from Kappel am Albis, near Zurich, and Giovanni Paravicini and Dario Paravicini, from the same town, the latter inscribing the books in 1715 while a student at Chur in the Grison. They are next recorded in the possession of Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham (17971878), entered in his 1864 library catalogue as part of a larger group of nine volumes, comprising the six offered here, plus De philosophia in two volumes (1555-1556), and De officiis (1555). The nine volumes were offered in the first instalment of the Ashburnham sale in 1897, where bought by the London booksellers J. & J. Leighton. The group was subsequently broken up and has now been partly reassembled.
See previous lot for another similar but not identical binding from the same workshop.
6 volumes, 8vo (152 x 95 mm), italic type, 30 lines plus headline. (1) A-Y8 Z4: 180 leaves. (2) A-Q8 R10: 138 leaves; A-G8: 56 leaves. (3-4) A-Z8 AA-SS8: 328 leaves; aa-zz8 Aa-Oo8 Pp4: 300 leaves. (5) aaa-zzz8 AAA-OOO8: 296 leaves. (6) A-Z8 AA-VV8 XX8: 348 leaves. (Occasional minor marginal stains.)
binding: Parisian bindings (159 x 104 mm), ca. 1560, uniformly bound by Grolier’s Last Binder, olive goatskin, each with gilt blocked arabesque corners and large centerpiece, gilt edges; III-VI) all volumes have 4 endleaves at the beginning and end, except vol. 1 of Orationes which has only 3 at the beginning, with watermarks: pot with one handle and a crown, similar to Briquet 12742 (Chartres 1557) and 12731-12793 (variously, 1550-1580s). (Vol. I rebacked; vols. II-VI with later titling in second and third compartments of spine, a few stains on covers, wear at ends of spines of three volumes, some other minor areas of rubbing.)
provenance: Unidentified owner (inscription "Simleri et amicorum" or similar on all title-pages) — Giovanni Paravicini di Capelli (inscription) — Dario Paravicini di Capelli (inscription) — Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878, A Catalogue alphabetically arranged of the more rare and curious printed books in the library at Ashburnham Place ([London?] 1864), unpaginated (q.v. Cicero, “various works collected in 9 volumes”, sale, Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge, 25 June-3 July 1897, lot 1110, “together 9 vol. … some vol. with autographs of Joannes Pallavicini and Simleri et Amicorum”, £5- 12-6 to) — J. & J. Leighton, London [at this stage the set was broken up]. Vol. 1: Christie, Manson & Woods, New York, 9 June 1999, lot 34. acquisition: Purchased from the preceding sale via Robin Halwas. Vols. 2-4: Leo Olschki, ticket. acquisition: Purchased from Martin Breslauer Inc., New York, 1987. Vol. 5: acquisition: Purchased from Martin Breslauer Inc., New York, 1987. Vol. 6: acquisition: Purchased from Sokol Books, London, 2020. references: UCLA 346, 468, 476, 346; Edit16 12274, 12322, 12317, 12274; Renouard 136/7, 161/13, 161/17, 136/7
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