Manassi, Oracoli politici cioè sentenze, Venice, Aldo II, 1590, Parisian blue straight-grained morocco signed by Bozerian Jeune, Renouard-Syston Park copy

Manassi, Niccolò. Oracoli politici cioè sentenze, et documenti nobili, & illustri raccolti da tutti gli antichi, e principali auttori hebrei, greci, & latini, per ornamento e conseruatione della vita christiana, & ciuile. Co i fiori de gli Apoftemmi di Plutarco. Venice: Aldo II Manuzio, 1590

8vo (158 x 105 mm). Italic type, 31 lines plus headline. collation: *⁴ A⁴ B-M⁸: 96 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page.

binding: Parisian blue straight-grained morocco signed by Bozerian Jeune (fl. 1802-1818) (165 x 114 mm), frame of gilt floral roll flanked by two gilt fillets, spine gilt with quatrefoil radiating four flowers on pointillé ground in compartments, brown endpapers, vellum flyleaves, gilt edges.

provenance: Antoine-Augustin Renouard (1765-1853) (without his inventory number), Renouard (Paris 1819), III, p. 264 — R.H. Evans, London, 26-30 June 1828, lot 392 — Henry G. Bohn, London, purchased in previous sale — Sir John Hayford Thorold, 10th Bt. (1773-1831) — Sir John Henry Thorold, 12th Bt. (1842-1922); his sale, Sotheby's London, 12-19 December 1884, lot 1418 — W.W. Sabin, London, purchased in previous sale — Robert Hoe (1839-1909), bookplate — Carolyn Shipman, (New York 1907), II, p. 90 — Anderson Galleries, New York, 1-5 May 1911, lot 2452. acquisition: Purchased from Patrick King, Stony Stratford, 1975. references: UCLA 998; Renouard 245/6; Edit16 27707; USTC 806578