Lot 307
  • 307

(Donne, John)

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • [Guillaume de Reboul]. La Cabale des Reformez, tiree nouvellement du puits de democrite. Par I.D.C. Montpeiller: Chez le Libertin [but Lyon: Jacques Roussin?], 1597 [bound with:] [Guillaume de Reboul.] Apologie de Reboul, sur la Cabale des Reformez. [Montpeiller or Lyons,] 1579
  • printed book
2 works in one volume, 8vo (6 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.; 161 x 109 mm). First work with typographic device on title-page and typographic initial-frames and headpieces, second work with typographic device on title-page, wood- and metal-cut initials, and typographic headpieces; some very light dampstaining. Eighteenth-century calf, covers with blind-rolled frame, spine gilt in six compartments with red morocco label, plain endpapers, red edges; extremities rather worn, joints cracking. Half brown morocco folding-case.

Provenance

John Donne (signature and motto on title-page) — The Earls of Pembroke. acquisition: Robinson, 1967

Literature

Grolier/Donne 114; cf. Keynes, Donne, Appendix IV (this book unrecorded)

Condition

2 works in one volume, 8vo (6 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.; 161 x 109 mm). First work with typographic device on title-page and typographic initial-frames and headpieces, second work with typographic device on title-page, wood- and metal-cut initials, and typographic headpieces; some very light dampstaining. Eighteenth-century calf, covers with blind-rolled frame, spine gilt in six compartments with red morocco label, plain endpapers, red edges; extremities rather worn, joints cracking. Half brown morocco folding-case.
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Catalogue Note

John Donne's copy, with his signature ("J: Donne") and Italian motto on the title-page (motto just shaved by binder). Donne's penciled reader's marks appear on most of the pages of the first work and somewhat less frequently in the second.