Accession number:
PML 76372
Published:
Donné à Orleans : [no printer/publisher], l'an mil cinq cens soixante-neuf, le vingt-septiéme iour de Iuin [27 June 1569]
Credit:
Gift of Paul Mellon, 1979.
Description:
[12] p., 60 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. (engravings) ; 41 cm
Notes:
French t.p., privilege, dedication, note to readers and captions for ill. follow Latin and precede plates.
In Ad lectorem, Iacobus Endroetus du Cerceau is named as the artist responsible for the ill.
Later editions have title: Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum.
Mellon no.: L 437.4.
Place and date of publication drawn from privilege statement, verso of t.p.: ... donné à Orleans, l'an mil cinq cens soixante-neuf, le vingt-septiéme iour de Iuin.
Plates have engraved captions in Latin.
Binding:
16th-century French calf, gold-tooled with a semis of fleurs-de-lis, frame of crowned, addorsed C's, and arabesque cornerpieces; on the upper cover the royal arms, on the lower cover the device of Charles IX (two columns, and the motto "Pietate et Justitia"); presumably the dedication copy for Charles IX.
Provenance:
Charles IX, dedication copy, armorial binding and motto inscribed on title pages; De Lomes, unidentified inscription (front pastedown); unidentified inscription, abraded, partially visible under UV (title page); Constantin N. Radoulesco (d. about 1957), booklabel (front pastedown); Paul Mellon (1907-1999), purchased from Georges Heilbrun, cat. April 1962, no. 12; Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of Paul Mellon, 1979.
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