De Bie, Jacques. Imperatorum Romanorum a Iulio Caesare ad Heraclium usque numismata aurea, excell.mi dum viveret, Caroli ducis Croii et Arschotani, &c Magno & sumptuoso studio collecta, nec minore fide, atque industriâ Iacobi De Bie ex archetypis in aes incisa, brevi & historico commentario explicata. Antwerp: Gerit Wolsschatz & Hendrik Aertssens; Hieronymus Verdussen, 1615
The plates depict the numismatic collection of Charles, duc de Croÿ and Aarschot (1580-1624), whilst various coins in the index have been check-marked (perhaps by de Thou?).
Unlike the bulk of the de Thou library, this volume does not bear the shelfmark of the Rohan-Soubise library, as it must have left the collection before its acquisition by the Cardinal de Rohan-Soubise and does not appear in the Soubise sale catalogue of 1789. For a full description of the de Thou library, see Bibliotheca Brookeriana I, 11 October 2023, lot 2, and for another de Thou binding, see lot 532 in this sale.
First edition, 4to (222 x 164 mm). Roman type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: a-c4 A-Ff4 Gg2: 130 leaves (last leaf blank). Letterpress title with Verdussen imprint stamped on afterwards (state B: "In some copies, the typographical title page contains an imprint mentioning 'prostant apud Hieron. Verdussium'", according to STCV), additional engraved allegorical title, 65 numbered engraved plates. (A3 with small closed tear at upper margin, paper flaw at lower margin of M4).
binding: Contemporary Parisian red morocco (229 x 172 mm), 3 gilt fillets around the sides, in centre arms of Jacques-Auguste de Thou impaled by those of his second wife, Gasparde de La Chastre, spine with 5 full bands, monogram IAGT in compartments, 3 line title in second compartment, plain edges gilt. (Ends of spine, a couple of spine bands and joints neatly repaired).
provenance: Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617) — [inherited by] Jacques-Auguste II de Thou (1609-1677), Catalogus bibliothecae Thuanae (Paris, 1679), p.353 — François Michel de Verthamon, marquis de Breau (1657-1738), armorial bookplate — “Bibliotheque de Mr. G. Ripery”, stamp on title-page — Philippe-Louis de Bordes de Fortage, armorial bookplate, sale Paris, 9-19 March 1927, lot 5239 — Pierre Jammes (1925-2009), sale, Sotheby's, Paris, 12 October 2010, lot 32. acquisition: Purchased in 2011 from Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris. references: USTC 1001468; STCV 12914131; Olivier 216, fers 8 and 9
De Bie, Jacques. Imperatorum Romanorum a Iulio Caesare ad Heraclium usque numismata aurea, excell.mi dum viveret, Caroli ducis Croii et Arschotani, &c Magno & sumptuoso studio collecta, nec minore fide, atque industriâ Iacobi De Bie ex archetypis in aes incisa, brevi & historico commentario explicata. Antwerp: Gerit Wolsschatz & Hendrik Aertssens; Hieronymus Verdussen, 1615
The plates depict the numismatic collection of Charles, duc de Croÿ and Aarschot (1580-1624), whilst various coins in the index have been check-marked (perhaps by de Thou?).
Unlike the bulk of the de Thou library, this volume does not bear the shelfmark of the Rohan-Soubise library, as it must have left the collection before its acquisition by the Cardinal de Rohan-Soubise and does not appear in the Soubise sale catalogue of 1789. For a full description of the de Thou library, see Bibliotheca Brookeriana I, 11 October 2023, lot 2, and for another de Thou binding, see lot 532 in this sale.
First edition, 4to (222 x 164 mm). Roman type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: a-c4 A-Ff4 Gg2: 130 leaves (last leaf blank). Letterpress title with Verdussen imprint stamped on afterwards (state B: "In some copies, the typographical title page contains an imprint mentioning 'prostant apud Hieron. Verdussium'", according to STCV), additional engraved allegorical title, 65 numbered engraved plates. (A3 with small closed tear at upper margin, paper flaw at lower margin of M4).
binding: Contemporary Parisian red morocco (229 x 172 mm), 3 gilt fillets around the sides, in centre arms of Jacques-Auguste de Thou impaled by those of his second wife, Gasparde de La Chastre, spine with 5 full bands, monogram IAGT in compartments, 3 line title in second compartment, plain edges gilt. (Ends of spine, a couple of spine bands and joints neatly repaired).
provenance: Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617) — [inherited by] Jacques-Auguste II de Thou (1609-1677), Catalogus bibliothecae Thuanae (Paris, 1679), p.353 — François Michel de Verthamon, marquis de Breau (1657-1738), armorial bookplate — “Bibliotheque de Mr. G. Ripery”, stamp on title-page — Philippe-Louis de Bordes de Fortage, armorial bookplate, sale Paris, 9-19 March 1927, lot 5239 — Pierre Jammes (1925-2009), sale, Sotheby's, Paris, 12 October 2010, lot 32. acquisition: Purchased in 2011 from Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris. references: USTC 1001468; STCV 12914131; Olivier 216, fers 8 and 9
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