Mocenigo, archiepiscopi Nicosiensis regni Cypri, Venice, Aldo, 1581, eighteenth-century armorial binding for Foscarini, fine-paper copy

Mocenigo, Filippo, Archbishop of Nicosia. Philippi Mocenici archiepiscopi Nicosiensis regni Cypri &ç. Vniuersales institutiones ad hominum perfectionem; quatenus industria parari potest. Venice: Aldo II Manuzio, 1581

Printed on fine paper.

Folio (314 x 219 mm). Roman and italic type, 38 lines plus headline. collation: †⁶ ††-†††⁴ A-Z⁴ Aa-Zz⁴ Aaa-Zzz⁴ Aaaa-Dddd⁴

Eeee² [Ffff]². (Lacking Ffff2.): 310 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces, engraving facing index. (Scattered foxing.)

binding: Eighteenth-century Venetian armorial binding (327 x 240 mm), red morocco, wide gilt floral border, gilt arms of Foscarini, in center, spine elaborately gilt, spine with raised bands in seven compartments, gilt-lettered black morocco label to second, others with overall filigree and acorn pattern in gilt, edges gilt. (Restoration to spine, split to head of spine, rubbed with a few bumps and stains.)

provenance: Marco Antonio Foscarini (1696-1763), doge of Venice, armorial supralibros; Catalogo della Biblioteca Foscarini ai Carmini..., item 859 — Edward Clive Herbert, 2nd Earl Powis (1785-1848), inscription on endleaf; A Catalogue of books printed by Aldus Manutius...in the possession of Lord Viscount Clive London 1825, British Library, Add Ms 54176, f.81 — George Herbert, 4th Earl Powis (1862-1952), his sale, Sotheby's London, 20-22 March 1923, lot 587 — Bernard Quaritch, London, purchased in previous sale; Catalogue 478, item 16. acquisition: Purchased from Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris, 1973. references: UCLA 932; Renouard 228/3; Edit16 27609; USTC 842936