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Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII
30 June - 11 July 2025 • London
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1585. Abravanel, Philosophie d'amour, Lyon, 1551, contemporary French polychrome strapwork binding for "Marguerite"

1586. Albani, Libri de potestate papae et concilii, Venice, 1561, contemporary Roman red morocco gilt by Marcantonio Guillery

1587. Amboise, Les contrepistres d'Ovide; Le tableau de Cebes, Paris, 1543, Parisian brown calf gilt for Marcus Fugger

1588. Ariosto, Orlando furioso, Venice, 1533, contemporary Spanish blind-tooled calf, the Vernon–Holford copy

1589. Avila y Zuñiga, Commentariorum de bello Germanico, Antwerp, 1550, Bohemian armorial calf dated 1553 for Christopher the Elder Popel of Lobkowicz

1590. Baïf, Annotationes in legem II de captivis, Basel, 1537, contemporary Spanish Mudéjar binding

1591. Bardi, Della chronologia universale parte quarta, Venice, 1581, contemporary Roman green morocco gilt, likely from the Biblioteca Altempsiana

1592. Baudelot de Dairval, De l'utilité des voyages, Paris, 1686, nineteenth-century vellum

1593. Belon, L'histoire naturelle des estranges poissons marins, Paris, 1551, the Beckford copy

1594. Bembo, Prose, Venice, 1525, contemporary blind-stamped calf

1595. Bembo, Les Azolains, Paris, 1547, contemporary French black morocco with painted interlacing possibly by Wotton Binder C, the Ballesdens copy

1596. Bembo, Delle rime, Venice, 1548, eighteenth-century mottled calf, blue-paper copy

1597. Bembo, Delle rime, Venice, 1548, nineteenth-century armorial blue morocco for the Marchese d'Adda, blue-paper copy

1598. Bembo, Delle lettere primo volume, Rome, 1548, Venetian red morocco gilt for Fulvio Rangoni, the Fairfax-Murray copy

1599. Bembo, Delle rime, Rome, 1548, Italian red straight-grained morocco gilt, c. 1800, blue-paper copy

1600. Bembo, Prose, Florence, 1549, Parisian painted calf gilt for "F.B."

1601. Bembo, Gli Asolani, Venice, 1553, contemporary limp vellum with fore-edge flaps, the de-Thou–Soubise copy
![Berni, Capitolo del gioco della primiera, Venice, 1534 [and other works], late sixteenth-century Roman red morocco gilt, the Duca di Sora copy](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/bf65945/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x2000+0+0/resize/150x150!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2Fa7%2Fed%2F58f4819043909f2cb7216be80055%2Fl25407-cnsyf-t1-01.jpg)
1602. Berni, Capitolo del gioco della primiera, Venice, 1534 [and other works], late sixteenth-century Roman red morocco gilt, the Duca di Sora copy

1603. Billy, Exhortation au peuple francois, Paris, 1584, contemporary Parisian limp vellum gilt with fore-edge flaps

1604. Bisagno, Trattato della pittura, Venice, 1642, contemporary vellum

1605. Boccaccio, Ameto, Venice, 1524, contemporary Venetian Fortuna binding, possibly by the Mendoza Binder

1606. Boccaccio, Des nobles maleureux, Paris, 1538, contemporary Parisian tan calf gilt for Marcus Fugger

1607. Boccaccio, Libro delle donne illustri, Venice, 1545, contemporary Venetian olive-green goatskin by the Fugger Binder for Cardinal Perrenot de Granvelle

1608. Boccaccio, Amorosa visione, Venice, 1549, contemporary Parisian vellum gilt

1609. Boccaccio, Il Decamerone, Venice, 1550, contemporary Parisian strapwork binding dated 1552 for "Ε.Π."

1610. Boileau-Despréaux, Oeuvres diverses, Paris, 1674, contemporary English red morocco gilt for the 1st Duke of Buckingham
![Boscán and Garcilaso de la Vega, Obras, [Rome], 1547, contemporary Roman Fortuna binding](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/81d1a83/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x2000+0+0/resize/150x150!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F61%2Fb9%2F960e87b34f68ac921cf499c4e690%2Fl25407-cnt4f-t1-01.jpg)
1611. Boscán and Garcilaso de la Vega, Obras, [Rome], 1547, contemporary Roman Fortuna binding

1612. Botero, Della ragion di stato libri dieci, Venice, 1589, Spanish red morocco armorial binding for Núñez de Guzmán
![Brucioli, Dialogi della morale philosophia [and other works], Venice, 1544-1545, Parisian brown morocco gilt for d'Amboise, the Masterman-Sykes—Heber copy](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/89dc3ec/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x2000+0+0/resize/150x150!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F87%2F42%2Fedfdab94491da62b557bbffa5ce7%2Fl25407-cnt3b-t1-02.jpg)
1613. Brucioli, Dialogi della morale philosophia [and other works], Venice, 1544-1545, Parisian brown morocco gilt for d'Amboise, the Masterman-Sykes—Heber copy

1614. Burchiello, Rime comentate dal Doni, Vicenza, 1597, contemporary French red morocco gilt for Bartolomeo Cenami

1615. Bure, Bibliographie instructive, Paris, 1763-1782, 10 volumes, contemporary French mottled calf, Anthony Hobson's copy

1616. Cabrera, Meditatiunculae, Valladolid, 1548, contemporary Spanish brown morocco gilt, from the library of El Escorial

1617. Cambery, Le miroir royal, Paris, 1549, contemporary French green velvet binding, inscription from the author to Anne de Montmorency for presentation to Henri II

1618. Camillo, L'idea del theatro, Florence, 1550, nineteenth-century half vellum

1619. Capell, Lectionum Bibliothecariarum memorabilium syntagma, Hamburg, 1682, contemporary vellum with fore-edge flaps

1620. Carioni, Via de aperta verita, Venice, 1523, contemporary Italian black morocco with nineteenth-century gilt decoration
![Castiglione, Les quatre livres du Courtisan, Lyon, [1537], contemporary French calf tooled in gilt and blind](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/f145125/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x2000+0+0/resize/150x150!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F24%2F7d%2F0b43445548418c96cec14006f68b%2Fl25407-cnsys-t1-01.jpg)
1621. Castiglione, Les quatre livres du Courtisan, Lyon, [1537], contemporary French calf tooled in gilt and blind

1622. Castiglione, Gallorum Insubrum antiquae sedes, Milan, 1541, nineteenth-century tan calf by Koehler

1623. Castiglione, Ricordi overo ammaestramenti, Venice, 1554, contemporary limp vellum

1624. Castiglione, Ricordi overo ammaestramenti, Milan, 1561, contemporary limp vellum

1625. Champmeslé, Les Grisettes, comedie, Paris, 1671, contemporary calf

1626. Chartier, Les croniques, Paris, 1528, contemporary French tan calf gilt

1627. Chaumeau, Histoire de Berry, Lyon, 1566, magnificent contemporary French tan calf with painted interlacing

1628. Cicero, Opera, Basel, 1534, 2 volumes, contemporary Munich pigskin with painted foredges, from the Pillone library

1629. Clamorgan, La chasse du loup, Paris, 1567, eighteenth-century English tan calf

1630. Clenardus, Institutiones ac meditationes in graecam linguam, Lyon, 1581, Parisian armorial morocco gilt for d'Amboise

1631. Colonna, Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1561, contemporary vellum gilt
![Columbus, Epistola de insulis novis inventis, [facsimile of the 1493 Rome edition], green crushed morocco](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/05129f9/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1411+0+0/resize/150x106!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2Fce%2F70%2Feb32f4b04aa58c08e2f408795531%2Fl25407-cnsw7-t3-02.jpg)
1632. Columbus, Epistola de insulis novis inventis, [facsimile of the 1493 Rome edition], green crushed morocco