Andreoli bindings, a fine set of 8 volumes, armorial brown morocco gilt, late seventeenth century

ANDREOLI BINDINGS

A fine set of 8 volumes in brown morocco gilt armorial bindings, comprising:

FRANCOIS DE SALES. Opera. Venice: Bertani, 1667, 5 volumes, 12mo

[BERNIERES-LOUVIGNY, Jean de and BARRY, Paul de]. Il Christiano interiore, overo La conformità interiore, che devono havere li christiani con Giesù Christo; aggiuntovi il Pensaci bene, con la Regola del ben vivere. Opera, tradotta... dal signor Alessandro Cenami. Venice: Combi & La Nou, 1669, 2 parts in one volume, 12mo, engraved frontispiece by Antonio Bosio, engraved frontispiece to part two dated 1667 and engraved by Leonardus Henricus (in the copy in Rome, this plate is dated 1670), 7 engraved plates

BARTOLI, Daniello. L'huomo al punto, cioè l'huomo al punte di morte. Milan: Lodovico Monza, 1670, 12mo, with nineteenth-century censor's stamps on title-page (Luigi Ferrari for the diocese of Modena, M. Ant. Parenti for the Este territory)

BARTOLI, Daniello. Della vita di Padre Vincenzo Carafa. Bologna: heir of Benacci, [1651], 18mo, without final blank

together 8 volumes, uniform contemporary Roman brown morocco gilt with the arms of the Machiavelli and Baccelli families, the final volume with the arms contained within an eagle surround, flat spine gilt, gilt edges, occasional light browning

A beautiful uniform set of devotional works. The bindings can be attributed to the Andreoli bindery (see Legatura romana barocca plate 66, with the same diamond stamp, and plate 68, for the same outer border).

The Florentine Machiavelli family died out in the early eighteenth century and the inheritance passed to the Rangoni of Modena.

PROVENANCE:

Machiavelli-Baccelli, arms on bindings; from the collection of the Lancellotti Senni family, Rome