Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, [Geneva], 1598, red morocco with arms of J.A. de Thou and Marie de Barbançon

Property from the Loverdos Collection

Athenaeus

Δειπνοσοφιστων βιβλια πεντεκαιδεκα. Deipnosophistarum libri XV [edited by Isaac Casaubon]. [Geneva: heirs of] Jérôme Commelin, 1598

folio (350 x 222mm.), parallel text in Greek and Latin, woodcut printer's device on title-page, with blank leaf after title-page and blank leaf nnn4, contemporary red morocco gilt with the arms of Jacques-Auguste de Thou and Marie de Barbançon [Olivier 216 fer 5], spine gilt in compartments with their IAM monogram [fer 6], gilt edges, some light browning, extremities very slightly rubbed

There is a note in English on the flyleaf, signed L.D., about the publication of this volume, which is a reprint of the 1597 Commelin Heidelberg edition. 

LITERATURE

GLN-4023; VD16 A 4005 (assigned to Heidelberg)

PROVENANCE

Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617) and his first wife, Marie de Barbançon-Cany (died 1601), arms on binding; [not found in Catalogus Bibliothecae Thuanae (Paris, 1679)]; Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise (1715-1787, who acquired the bulk of the de Thou library), his shelfmarks on inside front cover, 2.P.1.j.9 and 2.C.P.T.1.j.n.9, sale, Paris, January 1789, lot 5626 (together with a second volume printed in 1600); Maggs Bros, catalogue 395 (1920), no. 1024