Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection D-M

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection D-M

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Medici antiqui, Latinis literis diuersorum morborum genera, Venice, Aldo, 1547, eighteenth-century French red morocco

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Medici antiqui. Medici antiqui omnes, qui Latinis literis diuersorum morborum genera & remedia persecuti sunt. Venice: Sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1547

 

Folio (308 x 203 mm). Roman and italic type, 62 lines plus headline. collation: *-**6 a8 *2 b-h8 i6 k10 l-z8 A-Q8 R6: 332 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and verso of final leaf, woodcut initials, a few instances of early marginal annotations. (Foxing, browning.)

 

binding: Eighteenth-century French or possibly English red morocco (318 x 218 mm), three gilt fillets around sides, spine with raised bands in seven compartments, second and third gilt-lettered, others with repeat gilt fleuron, edges gilt, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endleaves. (Rubbed, joints cracked and repaired.)

 

provenance: "Τωτ πλαγλιου"(?), early inscription below Aldine device on title — Charles-Louis-Félix Cadet de Gassicourt (1789-1861), presentation letter dated 29 June 1839, tipped onto front free endpaper (his daughter, Clémentine, married Dr. Marie-Joseph-Napoléon Camus on 30 April 1839) — Dr. Marie-Joseph-Napoléon Camus — Victor A. Schwarz, ex libris to front pastedown — Sotheby's London, 24 May 2001, lot 31. acquisition: Purchased from Studio Bibliografico Lex Antiqua, Castiglione dei Pepoli (Bologna), 2015 references: UCLA 368; Renouard 140/2; Grolier/Aldus 86; Edit16 26973; USTC 803242

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