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Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. Magnificent Books and Bindings
21 September - 11 October 2023 • New York
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1. Alamanni, La coltivatione, Florence, 1549, contemporary English calf by the King Edward and Queen Mary Binder for William Bill

2. Alberti, De pictura, Basel, 1540, Parisian calf with the arms of Jacques-Auguste de Thou

3. Apianus, Libro de la cosmographia, Antwerp, 1548, Lyonese binding for a member of the Malipiero family

4. Appianus, Des guerres des Rommains, Paris, 1552, French polychrome binding with Amerindian panel stamp

5. Ariosto, Orlando furioso, Venice, 1546, Venetian green morocco by the Fugger Binder for Perrenot de Granvelle
![[Augsburg Confession] Confessio fidei, Wittenberg, 1531, from the library of a leader of the Protestant Reformation, Lazarus Spengler](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/34ba2c8/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1395x2000+0+0/resize/150x215!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F23%2F75%2F0f8a9c00404eb6c0b0b94ce0f895%2Fn11245-cnsy3-t2-02.jpg)
6. [Augsburg Confession] Confessio fidei, Wittenberg, 1531, from the library of a leader of the Protestant Reformation, Lazarus Spengler

7. Ausonius, Opera, Lyon, 1558, French limp vellum for Hartmann von Liechtenstein und Nikolsburg

8. Baif, Annotationes in legem II, Basel, 1537, contemporary Roman morocco for Fernando de Torres
![Bembo, Epistolarum libri sexdecim, Venice, [1535?], Roman goatskin by Niccolò Franzese for Cardinal Ippolito II d’Este](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/188fad5/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1644x2000+0+0/resize/150x182!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2Fcb%2Fde%2Fa2fb8d7c4f6a9ded76cba9e3a6aa%2Fn11245-cnsyl-t1-02.jpg)
9. Bembo, Epistolarum libri sexdecim, Venice, [1535?], Roman goatskin by Niccolò Franzese for Cardinal Ippolito II d’Este

10. Bembo, Epistolarum libri XVI, Lyon, 1540, Roman impresa binding by Niccolò Franzese for Apollonio Filareto

11. Berni, Orlando innamorato, Venice, 1541, Roman red morocco gilt with arms of the Jacovacci family

12. Berosus, De antiquitate Italiae, Lyon, 1555, Parisian morocco for Madruzzo, one of the earliest French bindings with a spine title

13. La Bibbia, Venice, 1547, Parisian armorial morocco by Wotton Binder C for Paolo Giordano Orsini
![[Biblia sacra polyglotta] Prophetae posteriores, Antwerp, 1570, volume IV of the rare vellum issue of the Plantin Polyglot Bible](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/f73f655/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x2000+0+0/resize/150x150!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2Fc5%2F3a%2F980c87134d4f933408b1cd2214ff%2Fn11245-cnt9t-t1-07.jpg)
14. [Biblia sacra polyglotta] Prophetae posteriores, Antwerp, 1570, volume IV of the rare vellum issue of the Plantin Polyglot Bible

15. Billon, Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld

16. Boccaccio, Laberinto d'amore, Venice, 1529, contemporary Italian goatskin for a member of the Tuti family of Siena

17. Boccaccio, Genealogiae deorum, Basel, 1532, Parisian armorial calf by the Pecking Crow Binder

18. Boccaccio, Il Decamerone, Venice, 1542, Venetian morocco by the Fugger Binder for Catherine de Médici

19. Borja, Empresas morales, Prague, 1581, the first original Spanish emblem book

20. Bossus, Dialogus de veris et salutaribus animi gaudiis, Florence, 1491, Renaissance plaquette binding

21. Boucher, Caroli Lotharingi Card. et Francisci ducis Guysii... in funebri oratione, Paris, 1577, Parisian vellum with the arms of the Cardinal de Lorraine

22. Budé, Epistolae, Paris, 1522, Genoese impresa binding, probably for Tommaso Franzone

23. Calvete de Estrella, El felicissimo viaje, Antwerp, 1552, Flemish binding by Plantin for Federico Badoero

24. Cicero, Epistolae familiares, Paris, 1540, Parisian black morocco gilt by the Salel Binder

25. Clavius, Horologiorum nova descriptio, Rome, 1599, red morocco by the Soresini for Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, the dedicatee

26. Francesco Colonna, Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger

27. Vittoria Colonna, Rime, Venice, 1539, Venetian dark blue morocco by the Cicero Binder for Perrenot de Granvelle
![[Congrégation royale] L'office de la Vierge Marie, Paris, 1586, a Parisian red morocco "penitential" binding](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/826f63b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x2000+0+0/resize/150x150!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F7c%2Feb%2F4d4fe350431198958be03a2d28ce%2Fn11245-cntch-t1-05.jpg)
28. [Congrégation royale] L'office de la Vierge Marie, Paris, 1586, a Parisian red morocco "penitential" binding
![Diogenes Laertius, Epistolae Bruti, [Venice, 1492], binding by Mahieu's Aesop Binder for Jean Grolier](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/747da3a/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1496x2000+0+0/resize/150x201!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F9e%2Fa3%2F02431ab94fb9bc015f143156858f%2Fn11245-cnsw6-t1-02.jpg)
29. Diogenes Laertius, Epistolae Bruti, [Venice, 1492], binding by Mahieu's Aesop Binder for Jean Grolier

30. Dogale, Ducal commission from Lorenzo Priuli to Melchiorre Salamon, 1557, manuscript, Venetian red goatskin

31. Du Pérac, I vestigi dell'antichità di Roma, Rome, 1575, London diced russia for Sir Andrew Fountaine

32. Eusebius, Evangelicae demonstrationis libri decem, Venice, 1536, contemporary Spanish morocco for Cardinal Juan Álvarez de Toledo

33. Eusebius, Evangelicae praeparationis lib. X, Paris, 1544, a Paris alla greca binding by Gomar Estienne for Marcus Fugger

34. Fendt, Monumenta sepulcrorum, Breslau, 1574, a sixteenth-century German velvet binding
![Ferreri and Ventimiglia families, copies of notarial acts, [Sicily, 1560s], Venetian olive morocco for a member of the Ferreri family](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/5ef5784/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1525x2000+0+0/resize/150x197!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F8f%2F85%2Fef045d4b478fb792ab61e051eb38%2Fn11245-cnv4m-t1-02.jpg)
35. Ferreri and Ventimiglia families, copies of notarial acts, [Sicily, 1560s], Venetian olive morocco for a member of the Ferreri family

36. Fiaschi, Trattato dell'imbrigliare, maneggiare, et ferrare cavalli, Bologna, 1556, French calf for a member of the Gouffier family

37. Florus, De fatti de Romani, Venice, 1546, Roman armorial red morocco for Girolamo Ruiz

38. Gesner, Epitome bibliothecae, Zurich, 1555, contemporary half pigskin, from the library of Kaspar Melisander

39. Giovio, De vita Leonis decimi pont. max. libri IIII, Florence, 1548, unique copy printed on vellum for Cosimo I de' Medici

40. Giovio, Vitae duodecim vicecomitum Mediolani principum, Paris, 1549, citron morocco by Gomar Estienne for Mahieu

41. Giovio, Historiarum sui temporis tomus primus, Paris, 1558, Parisian armorial morocco for Bartolomeo Cenami

42. Glareanus, In Titum Livium annotationes, Lyon, 1542, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder A for Thomas Wotton

43. Gohory, Hystoria Jasonis, Paris, 1563, Parisian architectural binding for Nicolas Dangu

44. Guarini, Il pastor fido, Venice, 1602, Parisian vellum gilt with arms of Henri IV of France

45. Guicciardini, La historia d'Italia, Venice, 1569, morocco with the impaled arms of Cosimo I de' Medici and Eleonor de Toledo

46. Guitot, Les meditations, Paris, 1558, French tan calf for Wolfgang Frantz from the Collège de Fortet
![Herolt, Sermones discipuli super epistolas dominicales, [Ulm, c.1479-1483], a fifteenth-century Augsburg chained binding](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/880001a/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1307x2000+0+0/resize/150x230!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F22%2F23%2Fdf8a8f3a4fc6a586420dd64fc354%2Fn11245-cnsvz-t2-02.jpg)
47. Herolt, Sermones discipuli super epistolas dominicales, [Ulm, c.1479-1483], a fifteenth-century Augsburg chained binding

48. Hippocrates, Livre de la generation de lhomme, Paris, 1559, Flemish calf for Marc Laurin dated 1559