Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Esprinchard, L'histoire des empereurs romains, [Geneva], 1600, French morocco gilt with the Tyrac de Marcellus family arms

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ESPRINCHARD, JACQUES. L'histoire des empereurs romains Jules Caesar jusques à Rodolphe II. [Geneva:] Samuel Crespin, 1600


FRENCH BINDING WITH THE TYRAC DE MARCELLUS FAMILY ARMS.

2 parts in one volume, 8vo (173 x 95 mm). Roman type, 40 lines plus headline. collation: ¶8 2¶8 3¶4 a-2x8 2y4 2z8 3a8 3b4; *8 2*8 3a-4p8 4q4: 400 + 392 leaves. Title-pages to each part, each with woodcut printer's device, ruled in red throughout. (Some marginal dampstaining, small marginal tear to g3 without loss.)


binding: French brown morocco (179 x 108 mm), plausibly contemporary, bearing the arms of Tyrac de Marcellus (OHR 2372) within a gold wreath on both covers, double gilt fillet around sides, flat spine, 6 false bands composed of three gilt fillets, title in second compartment “HISTOIRES DES / EMPEREVRS / ROMAINS”, gilt flower on stem with leaves in other compartments, plain edges gilt.


provenance: Tyrac de Marcellus, family arms to covers—"achevé de lire le 4 May 1608", inscription to upper endleaf—sale, Bernard Oger et Adrien Blanchet & Michel Siegelbaum, Paris, 28 February 2013, lot 118. acquisition: Purchased in 2016 from Librairie Chamonal, Paris. references: GLN 4113; (1) USTC 48696; (2) USTC 59311

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