Gesner, Lexicon graecolatinum, Basel, 1552, Spanish brown calf with fore-edge decoration, Sancho Dávila y Toledo copy
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GESNER, CONRAD. Lexicon graecolatinum post Conradum Gesnerum Philosophum, Arnoldum Arlenium pari eruditione & diligentia viros & post Adriani Iunij Medici insignis innumerabilem pene illam accessionem, postremo nunc non mediocriter auctum, per Ioannem Hartongum virum graecarum literarum peritissimum. Basel: Hieronymus Curio for Heinrich Petri, 1552.
This volume formed part of the Dávila y Toledo library. For more information on this substantial library, see lot 1044 (Budé). Along with lot 1104 (Gerson) and 1194 (Seneca), this volume belonged to Sancho Dávila y Toledo.
Folio (314 x 200 mm). Roman and Greek type, 54 lines plus headline. collation: ✝6 a6 b-z8 aa-zz8 Aa-Qq8 Rr-Ss6 α-γ6 δ4: 534 leaves. Engraved title-page, woodcut initials, woodcut printer's device on final verso. (Lower flyleaf missing, some light staining.)
binding: Spanish brown calf over thick wooden boards (332 x 222 mm), second half of sixteenth century, tooled in blind, border composed of a blind roll of leaves and tendrils extending past corners to edges of boards, same roll repeated 3 times vertically in central panel, inner empty frame only with miters, two clasps (straps renewed in twentieth century, plausibly original metalwork), remains of metal shoes, late sixteenth-century fore-edge decoration, title lettered across fore-edge with armorials and leafy decoration. (Rebacked, binding rubbed and worn.)
provenance: Sancho Dávila y Toledo (1546-1625), arms on fore-edge — old shelfmark "Est. 13. H" on title-page — [by family descent to] Vicente Joaquín Osorio de Moscoso (1744-1816), marqués de Astorga, printed label pasted to foot of ✝2 "Biblioteca del excmo. Señor Marques de Astorga" — Delbergue-Cormont & Antoine Bachelin-Deflorenne, Catalogue de la bibliothèque de son excellence de le Marquis d’Astorga, Paris, 31 May-4 June 1870, lot 797 — Henry Duhamel (1853-1917), bookplate. acquisition: Purchased in 1994 from H.P. Kraus, New York. references: USTC 672414; VD16 G 1756
