Accession number:
PML 199348-49
Published:
Vinegia : Apresso Vincenzo Vaugris, 1544
Credit:
Purchased on the T. Kimball Brooker Foundation Book Purchase Fund in honor of the Morgan's Centennial.
Description:
2 volumes (294, 286 leaves) ; 18 cm (8vo)
Notes:
Vol. 2 has title: Li. X. ultimi libri di Giosefo De le antichità giudaiche.
Signatures: : *-***⁸ a-z⁸ A-O⁸; a-z⁸ A-N⁸: 320 + 288 leaves (***7-8, O8 and [2]N8 blank).
Woodcut printer's device on title-pages, ***6v, O7v and N7v, woodcut initials.
Binding:
Contemporary Venetian olive green morocco (174 x 119 mm), by the Fugger Binder for Granvelle (Piquard's type A), covers tooled in silver (now tarnished) with leafy arabesque stamps to form a central lozenge within an interlaced frame, spine with a small leafy stamp across each compartment, some deckle edges, edges painted with dotted border and the author's name in a small blue panel across the fore-edge, with the number 3 at the foot of each fore-edge, later paper labels with manuscript lettering in French (with inventory number 1133) at head of spines, stubs from two pairs of ties.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Armorial ink stamp on verso of each title-page, inventory numbers and shelf marks on title-pages.
Variant Title:
Li. X. ultimi libri di Giosefo De le antichità giudaiche
Provenance:
Cardinal Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (1517-1586), armorial ink stamp on verso of each title-page; Palais Granvelle, Besançon, listed in 1607 inventory; inherited by Charles-François de la Baume-Saint-Amour (1621-ca 1707); sold to Jean-Baptiste Boisot (1638-1694), inscription on flyleaf, and all three volumes listed in the inventory of books, medals and paintings given for a public library in Besançon in 1694; Jean Viardot, sale, Binoche et Giquello and Dominique Courvoisier, Paris, 1 June 2016, lot 14. acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale; purchased by: T. Kimball Brooker, his sale: Sotheby's (London), Bibliotheca Brookeriana V, 10 Dec. 2024, lot 1134. .
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