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Bibliotheca Brookeriana VIII
3 December - 17 December 2025 • Paris
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1. Accolti, Lo inganno de gl'occhi, Florence, 1625, armorial red morocco gilt for Núñez de Guzmán, Godolphin copy

2. Acosta, Conciones in Quadragesimam, Venice, 1599, red morocco richly gilt, presentation copy

3. Aesopus, Fabellae Graece et Latine, Basel, 1534, contemporary Bolognese dark brown morocco

4. Albani, Libri de potestate papae et concilii, Venice, 1561, contemporary Roman red morocco gilt by Marcantonio Guillery

5. Alberti, De pictura libri tres, Basel, 1540, later binding reusing a vellum manuscript leaf

6. Alberti, I dieci libri de l'architettura, Venice, 1546, modern half vellum

7. Alberti, La pittura, Venice, 1547, later half red calf

8. Alberti, Trattato della nobilta della pittura, Rome, 1585, later half calf, Storck copy

9. Albertus Patavinus, Ordinis eremitarum, Venice, 1523, dedication copy for Cardinal Lorenzo Campeggio

10. Alciati, Emblematum liber, Augsburg, 1531, with an autograph letter by Alciati, later vellum

11. Alciati, Emblematum liber, Augsburg, 1531, and other works, contemporary German calf, Brassicanus's copy

12. Alciati, Livret des emblemes, Paris, 1536, annotated, later vellum

13. Alciati, Emblematum libellus, Paris, 1542, red morocco gilt by Lortic, Munich-Huth-Bright copy

14. Alciati, Emblemes d'Alciat, Lyon, 1549, brown morocco gilt with monogram of Thomas Mahieu

15. Alciati, Emblemata, Frankfurt, 1567, calf gilt with arms of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm of Saxe-Weimar

16. Alciati, Omnia emblemata, Antwerp, Plantin, 1574, contemporary vellum

17. Alciati, Iudiciarii processus compendium, Venice, 1537, contemporary limp vellum

18. Alciati, De verborum significatione, Lyon, 1546, contemporary French calf

19. Alexander Aphrodisiensis, Quaestiones naturales, morales et de fato, Venice, 1541, contemporary calf

20. Amboise, Les contrepistres d'Ovide; Le tableau de Cebes, Paris, 1543, Parisian brown calf gilt for Marcus Fugger

21. Aneau, Picta poesis, Lyon, 1552, contemporary limp vellum, Vershbow copy

22. Anselmi, Epigrammaton libri septem, Venice, 1528, contemporary Venetian brown morocco gilt

23. Ariosto, Orlando furioso, Venice, sons of Aldus, 1545, green morocco with gilt Aldine device

24. Ariosto, Orlando furioso, Venice, 1546, Venetian green morocco by the Fugger Binder for Perrenot de Granvelle

25. Aristophanes, Comoediae novem, Venice, Aldus, 1498, brown morocco gilt by Clarke and Bedford

26. Aristotle, Poetica, Venice, Aldus, 1536, later tan calf gilt

27. Aristotle, Libri quatuor de coelo et mundo, Lyon, 1542, contemporary Venetian chestnut morocco

28. Aristotle, Libri physicorum octo, Lyon, 1542, contemporary Venetian chestnut morocco gilt

29. Arrianus, De expeditione sive rebus gestis Alexandri, Basel, 1539, gilt-tooled brown morocco

30. Arrianus, De expeditione sive rebus gestis Alexandri, Basel, 1539, Leipzig calf binding, Johannes Wolf copy

31. Arrighi, De beatitudine hominis libri tres, Florence, 1569, dedication copy, armorial binding for Gregory XIII

32. Aventinus, Annalium boiorum libri septem, Ingolstadt, 1554, Roman brown morocco by the Vatican Bindery

33. Avila y Zuñiga, Commentariorum de bello Germanico, Antwerp, 1550, Bohemian armorial calf dated 1553 for Christopher the Elder Popel of Lobkowicz

34. Baif, Annotationes in legem II, Basel, 1537, contemporary Roman morocco for Fernando de Torres

35. Bembo, Gli Asolani, Venice, Aldus, 1505, second issue, later vellum, Charles Butler copy

36. Bembo, Epistolarum libri XVI, Lyon, 1540, Roman impresa binding by Niccolò Franzese for Apollonio Filareto
![[Biblia sacra polyglotta], volume VIII, Antwerp, 1571-72, Roman pink morocco bound for Cardinal Guglielmo Sirleto](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/a8a80fb/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6780x6780+0+0/resize/150x150!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2F5c%2F61%2F8d025e454c559413b0cfe8001bf7%2Fpf2525-cntmk-t1-01.jpg)
37. [Biblia sacra polyglotta], volume VIII, Antwerp, 1571-72, Roman pink morocco bound for Cardinal Guglielmo Sirleto

38. Bible, Greek, Venice, Aldus, 1518, contemporary Venetian morocco, Bartolomeo Piccolomini's copy
![[Bible. N.T. Greek] Της καινης διαθηκης απαντα; part 2 only, Paris, 1549, contemporary Parisian brown morocco gilt by Wotton Binder C](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/e829ac6/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6130x6130+0+0/resize/150x150!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2F50%2F48%2F27759c224a119a421c5c2d0d042d%2Fpf2525-cnt5s-t1-01.jpg)
39. [Bible. N.T. Greek] Της καινης διαθηκης απαντα; part 2 only, Paris, 1549, contemporary Parisian brown morocco gilt by Wotton Binder C
![[Bible. Latin] Biblia, Paris, Estienne, 1545, 2 volumes, Roman russet morocco](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/decde41/2147483647/strip/true/crop/7107x7107+0+0/resize/150x150!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2F88%2F70%2F57cd7c72401a9b95ac06f54f6697%2Fpf2525-cnt3h-t1-01.jpg)
40. [Bible. Latin] Biblia, Paris, Estienne, 1545, 2 volumes, Roman russet morocco
![[Bible] Psalterium, Venice, Aldus, [not after 1498], contemporary Roman medallion binding](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/de779eb/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1334x2000+0+0/resize/150x225!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F40%2F3e%2F0a265c0944adb763b02c829a0240%2Fpf2525-cnrql-1.jpg)
41. [Bible] Psalterium, Venice, Aldus, [not after 1498], contemporary Roman medallion binding
![[Bible] Liber Psalmorum Davidis, [Geneva], 1556, French tan calf gilt, Nicolas Psaume's copy](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/82cbf1f/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4387x6191+0+0/resize/150x212!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fb8%2Fe3%2F6dcdb53f462cb596e5e8f174e8f8%2Fpf2525-cnt7p-t1-02.jpg)
42. [Bible] Liber Psalmorum Davidis, [Geneva], 1556, French tan calf gilt, Nicolas Psaume's copy
![[Bible] Davidis Psalmi, Paris, 1576, contemporary French polychrome and inlaid binding](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/fa1620b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5528x5528+0+0/resize/150x150!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2F3e%2F9d%2Fb0a9265b4b25801cfe447fe968df%2Fpf2525-cntbg-t1-01.jpg)
43. [Bible] Davidis Psalmi, Paris, 1576, contemporary French polychrome and inlaid binding
![[Bible] Pseaumes de David mis en vers François, Rouen, 1593, contemporary French brown morocco gilt](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/e5af4b7/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6311x6311+0+0/resize/150x150!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fb4%2Fcd%2Fcdc9cd714889a46682872e578cd6%2Fpf2525-cntcx-t2-01.jpg)
44. [Bible] Pseaumes de David mis en vers François, Rouen, 1593, contemporary French brown morocco gilt

45. La Biblia, Venice, 1547, Parisian armorial morocco by Wotton Binder C for Paolo Giordano Orsini

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

47. Billy, Exhortation au peuple francois, Paris, 1584, contemporary Parisian limp vellum gilt with fore-edge flaps

48. Boccaccio, Des nobles maleureux, Paris, 1538, contemporary Parisian tan calf gilt for Marcus Fugger