Sigonio, Fasti consulares, Venice, 1556, later calf gilt for the Collège de Grassin

Books from the Library of the Earls of Haddington, lots 105-131

SIGONIO, CARLO, JOHANNES FERRARIUS MONTANUS AND BARTOLOMEO MARLIANI

Three works in a binding for the Collège de Grassin, comprising:

SIGONIO, Carlo. Fasti consulares ac triumphi acti a Romulo rege usque ad Ti. Caesarem. Venice: Paolo Manuzio, 1556, woodcut Aldine device on title-pages, woodcut initials

FERRARIUS MONTANUS, Johannes. De Republica bene instituenda, paraenesis. Basel: Johann Oporinus, (August 1556), woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials, with final blank leaf

MARLIANI, Bartolomeo. Consulum, dictatorum, censorumque Romanorum series, una cum ipsorum triumphis. Venice: Giovanni Griffio, 1555, oblong 8vo, woodcut device on title-page, uncut

3 works in one volume, folio (289 x 189mm.), seventeenth-century calf gilt with the arms of the Collège de Grassin [Olivier 1973 fer 2] on a semé of fleurs-de-lys, spine gilt in compartments with more fleurs-de-lys, gilt edges, extremities slightly rubbed, small repairs to head of joints

LITERATURE:

Edit16 28012; VD16 E 891; Edit16 35197

PROVENANCE:

Collège de Grassin, Paris, arms on binding; "From J.R. Pollock's Library", pencil note on verso of flyleaf; J.W. Rimington, inscription on verso of flyleaf; Pickering, Piccadilly, bookseller's label on inside front cover