Lanteri, Delle offese et diffese delle citta, et fortezze, Venice, 1601, calf, Hermann of Hesse copy

LANTERI, GIACOMO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA ZANCHI, ANTONIO LUPICINI AND GIULIO ROSCIO

A volume from the library of Hermann of Hesse-Rotenberg, comprising:

i. Lanteri, Zanchi and Lupicini. Delle offese et diffese delle citta, et fortezze. Venice: Tommaso Baglioni (Roberto Meietti), 1601, woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials and headpieces, woodcut diagrams, 2 folding woodcut plates, with blank leaf E4

ii. Roscio, Giulio. Elogia militaria. Rome: Bartolomeo Bonfadino for Giovanni Angelo Ruffinelli, 1596, woodcut dolphin and anchor device on title-page

2 works in one volume, 4to (221 x 155mm.), contemporary German calf gilt (possibly by Elias Petersheim, see footnote), spine tooled in black with shelfmark stamped in gilt (21 F), edges gilt and gauffered, two pairs of green silk ties, some gilding slightly rubbed

The binder Elias Petersheim worked for the Elector Palatine Louis VI (died 1583) in Amberg and Heidelberg in the late sixteenth century. The centrepiece on this binding appears on several made by Petersheim for the Bibliotheca Palatina (see Schunke, plates LXVI and LXXXIII).

For an earlier work by Lanteri, see lot 318.

LITERATURE:

USTC 4037429 & Edit16 29818; 1st work: Cockle 767

PROVENANCE:

"Arminio Ldh", inscription on first title-page, and "Hermannus Hassiae Landgravius", inscription on second title-page, i.e. Hermann IV, Landgrave of Hessen-Rotenberg (1607-1658, who was renowned for his scientific interests; the gilt shelfmark on the spine plausibly dates from his time); [Dukes of Arenberg, Plettenberg'schen Bibliothek], Schloss Nordkirchen, bookplate; extract from a sale catalogue loosely inserted, with the price £16/10/0 and Lord Cottesloe's manuscript notes