Contile, Luca. Ragionamento di Luca Contile sopra la proprietà delle imprese con le particolari de gli Academici affidati et con le interpretationi et croniche. Pavia: (Girolamo Bartoli), 1574
First edition. This is the first issue, without the final quire R which was added later (see lot 494). A few other leaves were sometimes cancelled; in this copy leaves Bb3, Hh4 and Mm4 appear to be cancels.
Contile (1505-1574) was a Sienese historian and poet, who founded the Accademia degli Affidati in Pavia in 1562. This emblem book contains imprese for the members of the Accademia, including a description of the symbolism of the emblem as well as the family history, and an introduction on the subjects of imprese, including a section on clothing. Francesco Alciati, a relative of Andrea, was a member of Contile's academy.
Contile also appears in Ferro's Teatro d'imprese (1623; lot 523) as one of the main exponents of emblem literature.
This copy is in a fine Augsburg binding made for Philipp Eduard Fugger, with ties in the Fugger colours of blue and yellow. Philipp was involved in the Fugger trading empire until 1580, when he set up with the Welser brothers a trading company in pepper. He inherited the library of his father Georg, and the Fugger library was subsequently sold by his grandson in 1655 to the Austrian Imperial Library for 15,000 florins. For another similar binding for Philipp, with the same centrepiece but otherwise different tools, see Arnim, Europäische Einbandkunst 61.
Folio (335 x 228 mm). Roman type, 54 lines plus headline. collation: *6 A-Z4 Aa-Pp4 Qq4: 160 leaves. Engraved title-page, woodcut initials, engraved illustrations (one full-page). (Title-page stained, some light browning, some cockling along gutter, staining at head and foot of gutter throughout.)
binding: Contemporary red morocco gilt (339 x 242 mm), by Matthias Gärtner of Augsburg [EBDB w004385] or Caspar Horneffer of Augsburg [EBDB w004241], central gilt armorial of Philipp Eduard Fugger on upper cover, oval arabesque centrepiece on lower cover, outer gilt border with arabesque corner stamps, spine gilt in compartments with small flower stamp, stubs from four pairs of blue and yellow silk ties, edges gilt and gauffered. (Extremities slightly rubbed, ends of spine chipped, wormtrack on upper cover about an inch long, lower cover slightly stained.)
provenance: Philipp Eduard Fugger (1546-1618), arms on binding — old shelfmark "Litt. O. No:35" (the 1521 Vitruvius from Schloss Wolfegg also has a similar shelfmark in the same hand; see lot 643). acquisition: Purchased in 2004 from Reiss und Sohn, Königstein im Taunus. references: Edit16 13187; Landwehr, Romanic Emblem Books 233; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 136
Contile, Luca. Ragionamento di Luca Contile sopra la proprietà delle imprese con le particolari de gli Academici affidati et con le interpretationi et croniche. Pavia: (Girolamo Bartoli), 1574
First edition. This is the first issue, without the final quire R which was added later (see lot 494). A few other leaves were sometimes cancelled; in this copy leaves Bb3, Hh4 and Mm4 appear to be cancels.
Contile (1505-1574) was a Sienese historian and poet, who founded the Accademia degli Affidati in Pavia in 1562. This emblem book contains imprese for the members of the Accademia, including a description of the symbolism of the emblem as well as the family history, and an introduction on the subjects of imprese, including a section on clothing. Francesco Alciati, a relative of Andrea, was a member of Contile's academy.
Contile also appears in Ferro's Teatro d'imprese (1623; lot 523) as one of the main exponents of emblem literature.
This copy is in a fine Augsburg binding made for Philipp Eduard Fugger, with ties in the Fugger colours of blue and yellow. Philipp was involved in the Fugger trading empire until 1580, when he set up with the Welser brothers a trading company in pepper. He inherited the library of his father Georg, and the Fugger library was subsequently sold by his grandson in 1655 to the Austrian Imperial Library for 15,000 florins. For another similar binding for Philipp, with the same centrepiece but otherwise different tools, see Arnim, Europäische Einbandkunst 61.
Folio (335 x 228 mm). Roman type, 54 lines plus headline. collation: *6 A-Z4 Aa-Pp4 Qq4: 160 leaves. Engraved title-page, woodcut initials, engraved illustrations (one full-page). (Title-page stained, some light browning, some cockling along gutter, staining at head and foot of gutter throughout.)
binding: Contemporary red morocco gilt (339 x 242 mm), by Matthias Gärtner of Augsburg [EBDB w004385] or Caspar Horneffer of Augsburg [EBDB w004241], central gilt armorial of Philipp Eduard Fugger on upper cover, oval arabesque centrepiece on lower cover, outer gilt border with arabesque corner stamps, spine gilt in compartments with small flower stamp, stubs from four pairs of blue and yellow silk ties, edges gilt and gauffered. (Extremities slightly rubbed, ends of spine chipped, wormtrack on upper cover about an inch long, lower cover slightly stained.)
provenance: Philipp Eduard Fugger (1546-1618), arms on binding — old shelfmark "Litt. O. No:35" (the 1521 Vitruvius from Schloss Wolfegg also has a similar shelfmark in the same hand; see lot 643). acquisition: Purchased in 2004 from Reiss und Sohn, Königstein im Taunus. references: Edit16 13187; Landwehr, Romanic Emblem Books 233; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 136
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