Manuzio, Paolo. Lettere volgari di diuersi nobilissimi huomini et eccellentissimi ingegni scritte in diuerse materie. Libro primo. Venice: Sons of Aldo Manuzio, October 1542 [Bound with:] Navò, Curzio Troiano. Letere de diuersi eccelentissimi signori a diuersi huomini scritte. Libro primo. [Venice: Curzio Troiano Navò, 1542?] First edition of Lettere volgari, edited by Paolo Manuzio, whose name appears in the preface, bound with a collection of letters edited and published by Curzio Troiano Navò, including several addressed to Veronica Gambara and Vittoria Colonna. Two works in one volume, 8vo (156 x 94 mm). (Manuzio) Italic type, 29 lines plus headline. collation: A-Z8 AA8: 192 leaves, foliated. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and verso of final blank. (Some dampstaining and spotting, lacking AA3.) — (Navò) Italic type, 28 lines plus headline. collation: *4 A-M8 N4: 100 leaves, foliated. Woodcut initials. (Some dampstaining and spotting.) binding: Venetian burgundy morocco plaquette binding (see Hobson), ca. 1542 (164 x 105 mm), gilt fillet flanked by blind fillets around sides, undulating lozenge of single gilt fillet enclosing on upper cover LETERE DI DIVERSI AVTORI, oval plaquette on lower cover of Vulcan, Venus, and Eros taken from plaquette of Giovanni Bernardo da Castelbolognese (Moliner 189), spine with full and semi-raised bands in eight compartments, edges gilt and gauffered with twin rows of dots around sides. (Spine and corners restored, joints cracked with some loss.)
provenance: Gabriel Ottobon, inscription to title — Fr. Pietro Capulli, inscription to upper pastedown — Rev. Charles Lloyd (d. 1862), his sale, Sotheby's London, 18 June 1862, lot 170 — Willis & Sotheran, London, purchased in previous sale; catalogue 184, 25 July 1862, item 28 — Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), ex libris — Leo S. Olschki, Florence, booksellers' ticket — Mostra storica della legatura artistica in Palazzo Pitti (Florence 1922), no. 481 — Bibliothèque nationale et Musée des arts décoratif... Paris 1926, no. 935 — Tammaro De Marinis, La Legatura artistica in Italia nei secoli XV e XVI, Florence 1960, no. 1708 — Arthur Lauria, Paris — Maurice Burrus (1882-1959), his acquisition label dated 1936 — Étienne et Antoine Ader, Jean-Louis Picard Jacques Tajan & Claude Guérin, Reliures et livres anciens, Paris, 15 November 1971, lot 81 — Jean Fürstenberg (1890-1982) — Martin Breslauer Inc., New York. acquisition: Purchased from Martin Breslauer Inc., New York, 1983. references: (Manuzio) UCLA 309; Renouard 126/8; Edit16 26705; USTC 803001; (Navò) Edit16 31531; USTC 802998; for binding, Anthony Hobson Humanists and bookbinders: the origins and diffusion of the humanistic bookbinding, 1459- 1559 (Cambridge 1989), p. 232 ("Census of Plaquette and Medallion bindings," no. 61b and Fig. 187: "Chicago, T. Kimball Brooker")
Manuzio, Paolo. Lettere volgari di diuersi nobilissimi huomini et eccellentissimi ingegni scritte in diuerse materie. Libro primo. Venice: Sons of Aldo Manuzio, October 1542 [Bound with:] Navò, Curzio Troiano. Letere de diuersi eccelentissimi signori a diuersi huomini scritte. Libro primo. [Venice: Curzio Troiano Navò, 1542?] First edition of Lettere volgari, edited by Paolo Manuzio, whose name appears in the preface, bound with a collection of letters edited and published by Curzio Troiano Navò, including several addressed to Veronica Gambara and Vittoria Colonna. Two works in one volume, 8vo (156 x 94 mm). (Manuzio) Italic type, 29 lines plus headline. collation: A-Z8 AA8: 192 leaves, foliated. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and verso of final blank. (Some dampstaining and spotting, lacking AA3.) — (Navò) Italic type, 28 lines plus headline. collation: *4 A-M8 N4: 100 leaves, foliated. Woodcut initials. (Some dampstaining and spotting.) binding: Venetian burgundy morocco plaquette binding (see Hobson), ca. 1542 (164 x 105 mm), gilt fillet flanked by blind fillets around sides, undulating lozenge of single gilt fillet enclosing on upper cover LETERE DI DIVERSI AVTORI, oval plaquette on lower cover of Vulcan, Venus, and Eros taken from plaquette of Giovanni Bernardo da Castelbolognese (Moliner 189), spine with full and semi-raised bands in eight compartments, edges gilt and gauffered with twin rows of dots around sides. (Spine and corners restored, joints cracked with some loss.)
provenance: Gabriel Ottobon, inscription to title — Fr. Pietro Capulli, inscription to upper pastedown — Rev. Charles Lloyd (d. 1862), his sale, Sotheby's London, 18 June 1862, lot 170 — Willis & Sotheran, London, purchased in previous sale; catalogue 184, 25 July 1862, item 28 — Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), ex libris — Leo S. Olschki, Florence, booksellers' ticket — Mostra storica della legatura artistica in Palazzo Pitti (Florence 1922), no. 481 — Bibliothèque nationale et Musée des arts décoratif... Paris 1926, no. 935 — Tammaro De Marinis, La Legatura artistica in Italia nei secoli XV e XVI, Florence 1960, no. 1708 — Arthur Lauria, Paris — Maurice Burrus (1882-1959), his acquisition label dated 1936 — Étienne et Antoine Ader, Jean-Louis Picard Jacques Tajan & Claude Guérin, Reliures et livres anciens, Paris, 15 November 1971, lot 81 — Jean Fürstenberg (1890-1982) — Martin Breslauer Inc., New York. acquisition: Purchased from Martin Breslauer Inc., New York, 1983. references: (Manuzio) UCLA 309; Renouard 126/8; Edit16 26705; USTC 803001; (Navò) Edit16 31531; USTC 802998; for binding, Anthony Hobson Humanists and bookbinders: the origins and diffusion of the humanistic bookbinding, 1459- 1559 (Cambridge 1989), p. 232 ("Census of Plaquette and Medallion bindings," no. 61b and Fig. 187: "Chicago, T. Kimball Brooker")
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