VIVES, Johannes Ludovicus (1492-1540). De Concordia & Discordia in Humano Genere. -De Pacificatione. -De conditione vitae Christianorum sub Turca . Antwerp: Michael Hillenius, 1529. 3 parts in one volume, 8° (158 x 101mm). Roman type, shoulder notes in italic. Woodcut 4-part title border, woodcut historiated and ornamental initials. FINE PARISIAN GOLD-TOOLED AND POLYCHROME BINDING FOR THOMAS MATHIEU, fawn calf of c.1550, the sides decorated to a strapwork design with gilt fillets and gouges, the continuous interlacing ribbon painted blue, white and red, front cover with title gilt-lettered in centre and ownership formula "To Maiolii et Amicorum" at foot, original owner's motto "ingratis servire nephas" in centre of back cover, flat spine diapered in gilt, repeated impression of a single small floral tool on board edges, leaf edges gilt, traces of two pairs of ties, original endpapers, IN ENTIRELY UNRESTORED CONDITION (rubbed in places.) Provenance : Thomas Mahieu (fl. 1549-84, binding); Jacques-Auguste de Thou (shelfmark on front pastedown); Paris d'Illens (not in 1791 London sale catalogue); Radziwill (sale Paris 1865, lot 256); Raoul-Léonor, Comte de Lignerolles (sale 1894, lot 444); Adolphe Bordes (booklabel); Louis Giraud-Budin (bookplate); Ralph Esmerian (booklabel, sale Paris, 6 June 1972, lot 126). A MOST ELEGANT BINDING with four centuries of distinguished provenance. Thomas Mahieu belongs to the most important patrons of the great mid-16th-century Parisian bookbinding ateliers, along with Henri II, Jean Grolier, Max Fugger, Count von Mansfeld, Thomas Wotton and others. He was secretary to Catherine de Medicis from 1549 to 1560, Conseiller du Roi under Henri II, and Treasurer of France by 1572. Most of his bibliophile activity appears to have been concentrated before 1564. The present binding cannot be assigned to a known artist (Hobson included it with about 20 others in Group VI), as it is virtually without tools. Mahieu commissioned Gommar Estienne, the so-called 'Aesop' binder, the 'Mansfeld' binder and others, but the treatment of the spine and board edges suggest the Grolier Cuspinianus binder as the best candidate. Approximately 109 bindings are known to have been owned by Mahieu, almost all in Latin or Italian, and they reflect a strong humanist interest; the present edition is no exception. The Spanish scholar and humanist Vives had studied at Paris but lived at Bruges, taught at Louvain, and came to England with the aid of Thomas More to seek the patronage of Henry VIII. It was his close friend and associate Erasmus who persuaded Vives to undertake editing St. Augustine's De civitate Dei (see lot 56), which Vives dedicated to Henry VIII. In the present work Vives discusses peace in Europe and the war against the Turks. Adams V-945; G.D. Hobson Maioli, Canevari, and others , 1926, no. LXXXIII; Nixon, 16th-century gold-tooled bookbindings in the Pierpont Morgan Library , 1971, pp.76ff; Foot, Henry Davis Gift , 1978, I, 183-191.
VIVES, Johannes Ludovicus (1492-1540). De Concordia & Discordia in Humano Genere. -De Pacificatione. -De conditione vitae Christianorum sub Turca . Antwerp: Michael Hillenius, 1529. 3 parts in one volume, 8° (158 x 101mm). Roman type, shoulder notes in italic. Woodcut 4-part title border, woodcut historiated and ornamental initials. FINE PARISIAN GOLD-TOOLED AND POLYCHROME BINDING FOR THOMAS MATHIEU, fawn calf of c.1550, the sides decorated to a strapwork design with gilt fillets and gouges, the continuous interlacing ribbon painted blue, white and red, front cover with title gilt-lettered in centre and ownership formula "To Maiolii et Amicorum" at foot, original owner's motto "ingratis servire nephas" in centre of back cover, flat spine diapered in gilt, repeated impression of a single small floral tool on board edges, leaf edges gilt, traces of two pairs of ties, original endpapers, IN ENTIRELY UNRESTORED CONDITION (rubbed in places.) Provenance : Thomas Mahieu (fl. 1549-84, binding); Jacques-Auguste de Thou (shelfmark on front pastedown); Paris d'Illens (not in 1791 London sale catalogue); Radziwill (sale Paris 1865, lot 256); Raoul-Léonor, Comte de Lignerolles (sale 1894, lot 444); Adolphe Bordes (booklabel); Louis Giraud-Budin (bookplate); Ralph Esmerian (booklabel, sale Paris, 6 June 1972, lot 126). A MOST ELEGANT BINDING with four centuries of distinguished provenance. Thomas Mahieu belongs to the most important patrons of the great mid-16th-century Parisian bookbinding ateliers, along with Henri II, Jean Grolier, Max Fugger, Count von Mansfeld, Thomas Wotton and others. He was secretary to Catherine de Medicis from 1549 to 1560, Conseiller du Roi under Henri II, and Treasurer of France by 1572. Most of his bibliophile activity appears to have been concentrated before 1564. The present binding cannot be assigned to a known artist (Hobson included it with about 20 others in Group VI), as it is virtually without tools. Mahieu commissioned Gommar Estienne, the so-called 'Aesop' binder, the 'Mansfeld' binder and others, but the treatment of the spine and board edges suggest the Grolier Cuspinianus binder as the best candidate. Approximately 109 bindings are known to have been owned by Mahieu, almost all in Latin or Italian, and they reflect a strong humanist interest; the present edition is no exception. The Spanish scholar and humanist Vives had studied at Paris but lived at Bruges, taught at Louvain, and came to England with the aid of Thomas More to seek the patronage of Henry VIII. It was his close friend and associate Erasmus who persuaded Vives to undertake editing St. Augustine's De civitate Dei (see lot 56), which Vives dedicated to Henry VIII. In the present work Vives discusses peace in Europe and the war against the Turks. Adams V-945; G.D. Hobson Maioli, Canevari, and others , 1926, no. LXXXIII; Nixon, 16th-century gold-tooled bookbindings in the Pierpont Morgan Library , 1971, pp.76ff; Foot, Henry Davis Gift , 1978, I, 183-191.
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