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

Faerno, Centum Fabulae, Rome, Luchino, 1564, later vellum, second issue

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October 18, 08:42 PM GMT

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1,500 - 2,500 USD

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Faerno, Gabriele. Fabulae centum ex antiquis auctoribus delectae et a Gabriele Faerno Cremonensi carminibus explicatae. Rome: [Paolo Manuzio for] Vincenzo Luchino, 1564

First edition, second issue. For the second issue, and later issues, the plate for "Rusticus, et Iuppeter" was replaced with the present plate.

4to (202 x 153 mm). Roman and italic type, 39 lines. collation: A-Z⁴ AA-CC⁴: 104 leaves. Allegorical title-page, 100 full-page engraved plates, historiated initials. (Title stained and trimmed at head affecting plate, worming to last few leaves, browning and foxing.)

binding: Eighteenth- or nineteenth-century Italian parchment over pasteboards (206 x 165 mm), spine with two brown morocco lettering-pieces, one with title and other with "2432" in gilt, edges speckled brown. (Some discoloration.)

provenance: Convento di Santa Teresa al Museo (Naples), inscription “Conventus Matris Dei Carmelitarum Discalceatorum Biblioth. Interioris” on title-page — unidentified owner, shelf or inventory number “2432” on lettering piece — Laurence Witten, Catalogue 8 (Southport 1978), item 50. acquisition: Purchased from E.K. Schreiber, New York, 1979. references: cf. UCLA 694; Barberi pp. 123-125

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