Liburnio, Niccolò. Le occorrenze humane per Nicolo Liburnio composte. (Venice: Sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1546) First edition, special issue, printed on fine paper, preserving extremely large lower margins.
Bound for Jean Grolier by Gomar Estienne, a native of Brabant, who held the office of royal bookbinder from about November 1547 until about May 1555, working intensively at Fontainebleau for the royal library, until mid-1552, thereafter from an atelier in Paris, for non-royal collectors such as Jean Grolier, Thomas Mahieu, Marc Laurin, and the Cardinal de Lorraine. Royal 8vo (209 x 124 mm). Italic types, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-T8 V4: 156 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title- page and V4v, initial spaces with guide letters. (Title-page foxed, scattered marginal foxing throughout, tiny wormhole at extreme lower margin from F7 to end, noticeable on only about five leaves and quickly diminishing to a pinhole.) binding: French olive morocco (216 x 132 mm), ca. 1552, by Gomar Estienne, gilt French-fillet border, between the two outside fillets, at foot of upper cover, gilt-lettered IO. GORLIERII [sic] ET AMICORVM, covers gilt with interlacing strapwork, freely executed with curving double gilt fillets, enclosing a central oval, empty on the upper cover, with Grolier's motto on lower, smooth spine, closely gilt with azured floral tools and tendrils, plain endpapers, gilt edges. (Joints weak and restored, head and foot of spine restored, extremities rather rubbed.) Half brown morocco folding-case, velvet lined.
provenance: Jean Grolier de Servières, vicomte d'Aguisy (1489?–1565), supralibros, his name and motto on covers — Méry de Vic, vicomte d'Ermenonville (1560-1622) — Dominique de Vic (1588-1661) — Gaetano Melzi (1783-1851) — possibly Frank Hall Standish (1799-1840) to whom Melzi sold many of his Aldines — Baron Horace de Landau (1824-1903), Société des Bibliophiles et Iconophiles de Belgique, Les richesses de la bibliophilie belge: Exposition à la Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, du 10 mai au 28 juin 1958 ([Brussels] 1958), no. 32 ("Collection particulière"; "Provenance: bibliothèques Melzi et Landau"); by bequest to his niece — Madame Eugénie Finaly of Florence (d. 1938); Catalogue of … the renowned library formed by Baron Horace de Landau … maintained and augmented by his niece … and now sold in accordance with the terms of her will …, 12–13 July 1948, lot 75; purchased by — George Alfred Kolkhorst (1897–1958) (£800) — Charles van der Elst (1904–1982) — Ader Picard Tajan & Claude Guérin with Dominique Courvoisier, Précieux livres anciens, Monte Carlo, 13 May 1985, lot 122 (FF 350,000). acquisition: Purchased at Ader Picard Tajan via Martin Breslauer Inc. references: UCLA 351; Adams L653; Edit16 26963; Renouard 135/5; USTC 838138; for the binding: Austin, no. 270; for this and other Gomar Estienne bindings see: Conihout & Ract-Madoux, “Nouveaux documents sur Gomar Estienne, relieur du roi de 1547 à 1555,” in Documents d’Histoire Parisienne 15 (2013), pp. 5-20; A. Hobson, Humanists and Bookbinders: The Origins and Diffusion of the Humanistic Bookbinding, 1459–1559 (Cambridge, 1989), p. 209-213
Liburnio, Niccolò. Le occorrenze humane per Nicolo Liburnio composte. (Venice: Sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1546) First edition, special issue, printed on fine paper, preserving extremely large lower margins.
Bound for Jean Grolier by Gomar Estienne, a native of Brabant, who held the office of royal bookbinder from about November 1547 until about May 1555, working intensively at Fontainebleau for the royal library, until mid-1552, thereafter from an atelier in Paris, for non-royal collectors such as Jean Grolier, Thomas Mahieu, Marc Laurin, and the Cardinal de Lorraine. Royal 8vo (209 x 124 mm). Italic types, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-T8 V4: 156 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title- page and V4v, initial spaces with guide letters. (Title-page foxed, scattered marginal foxing throughout, tiny wormhole at extreme lower margin from F7 to end, noticeable on only about five leaves and quickly diminishing to a pinhole.) binding: French olive morocco (216 x 132 mm), ca. 1552, by Gomar Estienne, gilt French-fillet border, between the two outside fillets, at foot of upper cover, gilt-lettered IO. GORLIERII [sic] ET AMICORVM, covers gilt with interlacing strapwork, freely executed with curving double gilt fillets, enclosing a central oval, empty on the upper cover, with Grolier's motto on lower, smooth spine, closely gilt with azured floral tools and tendrils, plain endpapers, gilt edges. (Joints weak and restored, head and foot of spine restored, extremities rather rubbed.) Half brown morocco folding-case, velvet lined.
provenance: Jean Grolier de Servières, vicomte d'Aguisy (1489?–1565), supralibros, his name and motto on covers — Méry de Vic, vicomte d'Ermenonville (1560-1622) — Dominique de Vic (1588-1661) — Gaetano Melzi (1783-1851) — possibly Frank Hall Standish (1799-1840) to whom Melzi sold many of his Aldines — Baron Horace de Landau (1824-1903), Société des Bibliophiles et Iconophiles de Belgique, Les richesses de la bibliophilie belge: Exposition à la Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, du 10 mai au 28 juin 1958 ([Brussels] 1958), no. 32 ("Collection particulière"; "Provenance: bibliothèques Melzi et Landau"); by bequest to his niece — Madame Eugénie Finaly of Florence (d. 1938); Catalogue of … the renowned library formed by Baron Horace de Landau … maintained and augmented by his niece … and now sold in accordance with the terms of her will …, 12–13 July 1948, lot 75; purchased by — George Alfred Kolkhorst (1897–1958) (£800) — Charles van der Elst (1904–1982) — Ader Picard Tajan & Claude Guérin with Dominique Courvoisier, Précieux livres anciens, Monte Carlo, 13 May 1985, lot 122 (FF 350,000). acquisition: Purchased at Ader Picard Tajan via Martin Breslauer Inc. references: UCLA 351; Adams L653; Edit16 26963; Renouard 135/5; USTC 838138; for the binding: Austin, no. 270; for this and other Gomar Estienne bindings see: Conihout & Ract-Madoux, “Nouveaux documents sur Gomar Estienne, relieur du roi de 1547 à 1555,” in Documents d’Histoire Parisienne 15 (2013), pp. 5-20; A. Hobson, Humanists and Bookbinders: The Origins and Diffusion of the Humanistic Bookbinding, 1459–1559 (Cambridge, 1989), p. 209-213
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