Bibliotheca Brookeriana III: Art, architecture and illustrated books

Bibliotheca Brookeriana III: Art, architecture and illustrated books

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Giovio, Dialogo dell'imprese militari et amorose, Lyon, 1574, limp vellum for de Thou as a bachelor

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Giovio, Paolo. Dialogo dell'imprese militari et amorose di monsignor Giovio vescovo di Nocera et del s. Gabriel Symeoni fiorentino. Con un ragionamento di m. Lodovico Domenichi, nel medesimo soggetto. Con la tavola. Lyon: Guillaume Rouille, 1574


An illustrated edition of Giovio's dialogue on imprese. The oval woodcuts were previously used in the 1562 edition (lot 531), but appear here without the decorative frame. Several book collectors are mentioned in the text, including Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (p.232), and Thomas Mahieu's motto "Ingratis servire nefas" appears on p.214.


Unlike the bulk of the de Thou library, this volume does not bear the shelfmark of the Rohan-Soubise library, as it must have left the collection before its acquisition by the Cardinal de Rohan-Soubise and does not appear in the Soubise sale catalogue of 1789. For a full description of the de Thou library, see Bibliotheca Brookeriana I, 11 October 2023, lot 2, and for another of his bindings, see lot 500 in this sale.


8vo (177 x 118 mm). Italic type, 26 lines plus headline. collation: A-S8 T4: 148 leaves. Woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut medallion portrait of the author on verso of title, woodcut initials and headpieces, oval woodcut illustrations. (Occasional light foxing or staining, small wormhole in last few leaves.)


binding: Near-contemporary limp vellum (183 x 126 mm), gilt arms of Jacques-Auguste de Thou as a bachelor, double gilt fillet border, flat spine gilt with de Thou's monogram, gilt edges, stubs from two pairs of ties, some deckle edges.


provenance: Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617, before his first marriage in 1587) — [inherited by] Jacques-Auguste II de Thou (1609-1677), Catalogus bibliothecae Thuanae (Paris, 1679), p.402 — Baron Horace de Landau (1824-1905), bookplate with stamped number 64756 — Henri Burton (died 1971), red morocco booklabel, sale, Christie's, New York, 22 April 1994, lot 122. acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. references: Edit16 21242; USTC 141168; Olivier 216, fers 2 & 3

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