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Ciera, In primum sententiarum responsiones, Rome, 1633, tan morocco gilt with arms of Urban VIII

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November 30, 03:42 PM GMT

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1,500 - 2,000 GBP

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Paolo Ciera


In primum Sententiarum responsiones ad quaesita omnia... Rome: Francesco Cavalli, 1633


4to (220 x 156mm.), engraved title-page, with initial blank leaf and two final blank leaves, contemporary tan morocco gilt with the arms of Pope Urban VIII and a bee stamp in the corners, spine gilt in compartments with a smaller bee stamp, gilt edges, ink inventory number 287 at head of each cover, lower corner of title-page torn (just touching image), occasional light browning, binding slightly rubbed, joints cracking


All the binding tools (with the exception of the smaller bees) appear on plate X of Legatura romana barocca 1565-1700, and a very similar binding is illustrated in plate 35, also with a manuscript inventory number in ink on the upper cover.


A copy of this work is listed in Index bibliothecae qua Franciscus Barberinus... ad Quirinalem aedes magnificentiores reddidit (Rome, 1681), p.274. Cardinal Francesco Barberini, Urban's nephew, was a major book collector.


PROVENANCE

Urban VIII, arms on binding

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