Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V

THUCYDIDES.Thucydidis Atheniensis historici gravissimi de bello Peloponnensium Atheniensiumque libri octo Laurentio Vallensis, interprete ac curatissimo. Una cum Vita authoris totiusque operis tabella post opus apponenda. (Paris: Josse Bade, 13 July 1513) [bound with:]

THUCYDIDES.Thucydidis Atheniensis historici gravissimi de bello Peloponnensium Atheniensiumque libri octo Laurentio Vallensis, interprete ac curatissimo. Una cum Vita authoris totiusque operis tabella post opus apponenda. (Paris: Josse Bade, 13 July 1513) [bound with:] HEGESIPPUS. Aegesippi historiographi fidelissimi ad disertissimi et inter Christianos antiquissimi historia de bello Iudaico. Sceptri sublatione. Iudaeorum dispersione. Et Hierosolymitano excidio. A divo Ambrosio Mediolanen. antistite e Graeca Latina facta. Cum eiusdem Anacephaleosi et tabellis congruentiarum cum Iosephi libris etiam de Gestis Machabeorum. (Paris: Josse Bade, 1 June 1510; 5 June 1510) A binding made for a Della Rovere cardinal; likely candidates are two nephews of Julius II, Leonardo (died 1520) and Sisto (died 1517), who were the only cardinal-nephews still alive after 1513. The same outer border tool and small spray of flowers stamp can be seen on De Marinis 450 (a Roman binding on a Venetian 1516 imprint belonging to Grolier), and the border tool also appears on Legature papali 46 and 60, both made for Clement VII.

View 1 of Lot 1221: Thucydides, De bello Peloponnesium Atheniensiumque, Paris, 1513, Roman armorial brown morocco with the Della Rovere arms

thucydides, de bello peloponnesium atheniensiumque, paris, 1513, roman armorial brown morocco with the della rovere arms

Books, Manuscripts and Music from Medieval to Modern

Thucydides Historia de Thucydides que trata de las guerras entre los Peloponeses y Athenienses... traduzida de lengua Griega en Castellana... por el secretario Diego Gracian. Salamanca: Juan de Cánova, 1564 folio (273 x 190mm.), title within woodcut border, woodcut illustration on O2, modern vellum, lower corner of Cc1 repaired, occasional staining or browning FIRST SPANISH TRANSLATION OF THUCYDIDES. Diego Gracián translated several Greek works into Spanish, including Xenophon and Plutarch, as well as Latin texts. He was a member of a dynasty of translators who held several posts at the royal court, from the time of Charles V into the seventeenth century. The book was dedicated by Gracián to Charles V, even though he had died by the time of publication, and Gracián included a petition within the dedication for his son to inherit his official position. LITERATURE IB 61186; Palau 342020

View 1 of Lot 174: Thucydides, historia...traduzida...por Diego Gracian, Salamanca, 1564, modern vellum

thucydides, historia...traduzida...por diego gracian, salamanca, 1564, modern vellum

Bibliotheca Brookeriana VIII

THUCYDIDES. L'histoire de Thucydide Athenien, de la guerre qui fut entre les Peloponnesiens et Atheniens, translatee de Grec en François par feu Messire Claude de Seyssel Evesque de Marseille, & depuis Archevesque de Turin, reveue et corrigee sur l'exemplaire grec. Paris: Michel de Vascosan, 1559

THUCYDIDES. L'histoire de Thucydide Athenien, de la guerre qui fut entre les Peloponnesiens et Atheniens, translatee de Grec en François par feu Messire Claude de Seyssel Evesque de Marseille, & depuis Archevesque de Turin, reveue et corrigee sur l'exemplaire grec. Paris: Michel de Vascosan, 1559 A MAGNIFICENT CONTEMPORARY SILVERED BINDING IN LIMP MOROCCO MADE FOR HENRI III, probably by the Ève bindery, who bound many books for Henri and also used the cornerpiece on other bindings (Davis Gift 109, for example, also with the semé of fleurs-de-lys). A similar silver-tooled limp binding made for Henri III is in the Morgan Library, PML 18388, attributed to Clovis Ève; PML M.927 has a similar overall design but tooled in gold rather than silver (Nixon, Sixteenth-century gold-tooled bookbindings, item 57). The text is a reprinting of Claude de Seyssel's translation of the Peloponnesian Wars, elegantly printed by Michel de Vascosan. It is one of several translations of classical historical texts made by Seyssel in the early sixteenth century, but they were only printed after his death, on the orders of François I. Seyssel did not read Greek but was helped by Janus Lascaris who provided him with Latin versions to translate. Folio (326 x 210 mm). Roman type, 43 lines plus headline. Collation: a6 [2]a6 A-Z Aa-Rr6 Ss4: 256 leaves. Woodcut initials and headpiece, ruled in red. (Lightly browned, small area of rubbing on title-page from removal of a signature.) Binding: Contemporary Parisian supple brown morocco tooled in (oxidised) silver (327 x 224 mm), made by the Ève bindery for Henri III, his arms of France and Poland-Lithuania at centre [Olivier 2491 fer 3] on a semé of fleurs-de-lys, his monogram [fer 9] stamped at centre of each side, leafy cornerpieces, flat spine with the monogram on a semé of fleurs-de-lys with title lettered near head of spine, dark blue(?) edges, two pairs of later green silk ties (with just one tie remaining). In modern crushed green morocco drop-backed box. (Extremities very slightly rubbed, a few small repairs to corners and ends of spine.) Provenance: Henri III of France (born 1551, ruled 1574-1589), arms on binding — Raoul Léonor, comte de Lignerolles (1817-1893), sale, Maurice Delestre and Charles Porquet, Paris, 16-26 April 1894, lot 2440 — Alfred-Louis Lebeuf de Montgermont (1841-1918), sale, Librairie Damascène Morgand, Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de M.L. de Montgermont (Paris, 1914), item 481 — Édouard Rahir, bookplate, sale, Henri Baudoin and Fernand Lair-Dubrueil, Paris, 7-9 May 1930, lot 237 — Anton W.M. Mensing (1866-1936), sale, Sotheby's, 15-17 December 1936, lot 572 — Maurice Burrus (1882-1959), his note of acquisition from Sotheby's in 1936 at end, sale, Alde and Isabelle de Conihout with Pascal Ract-Madoux, Paris, 17 October 2017, lot 74. Acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. References: USTC 30286

View 1 of Lot 306: Thucydides, L'Histoire de la guerre, Paris, 1559, Parisian limp brown morocco richly tooled in silver for Henri III

thucydides, l'histoire de la guerre, paris, 1559, parisian limp brown morocco richly tooled in silver for henri iii

THUCYDIDES. L'histoire de Thucydide Athenien, de la guerre qui fut entre les Peloponnesiens et Atheniens, translatee de Grec en François par feu Messire Claude de Seyssel Evesque de Marseille, & depuis Archevesque de Turin, reveue et corrigee sur l'exemplaire grec. Paris: Michel de Vascosan, 1559 A magnificent contemporary silvered binding in limp morocco made for Henri III, probably by the Ève bindery, who bound many books for Henri and also used the cornerpiece on other bindings (Davis Gift 109, for example, also with the semé of fleurs-de-lys). A similar silver-tooled limp binding made for Henri III is in the Morgan Library, PML 18388, attributed to Clovis Ève; PML M.927 has a similar overall design but tooled in gold rather than silver (Nixon, Sixteenth-century gold-tooled bookbindings, item 57). The text is a reprinting of Claude de Seyssel's translation of the Peloponnesian Wars, elegantly printed by Michel de Vascosan. It is one of several translations of classical historical texts made by Seyssel in the early sixteenth century, but they were only printed after his death, on the orders of François I. Seyssel did not read Greek but was helped by Janus Lascaris who provided him with Latin versions to translate.

View 1 of Lot 1220: Thucydides, L'Histoire de la guerre, Paris, 1559, Parisian limp brown morocco richly tooled in silver for Henri III

THE BEAUTY WITHIN: The Chenel Collection

A Roman Marble Portrait Head of a Man, probably Thucydides

A Roman Marble Portrait Head of a Man, probably Thucydides 2nd Century A.D. with short beard, high forehead, furrowed brow, and balding pate; neck, nose, and a small circular area on left temple restored, parts of ears formerly restored. Height 32 cm.

a roman marble portrait head of a man, probably thucydides, 2nd century a.d.

Books and Manuscripts: A Summer Miscellany

HOBBES, THOMAS, TRANSLATOR THUCYDIDES. THE HISTORY OF THE GRECIAN WAR: IN EIGHT BOOKS, TRANSLATED BY THOMAS HOBBES. ANDREW CLARK FOR CHARLES HARPER, 1676 folio, second edition, additional engraved title, title in red and black, 5 engraved maps and plans of which 4 folding, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, rebacked retaining most of original spine, tear in first map without loss SECOND EDITION OF HOBBES'S CELEBRATED TRANSLATION, which was the first directly from the Greek, and established Hobbes at a stroke as a leading Classicist when first published in 1629. The polymath Hobbes even drew the elaborate map of ancient Greece which accompanied the text. Hobbes explained in his verse autobiography that what attracted him to his favourite ancient historian was the "cool dissection of political motivation and the 'realist' approach to power, together with the peculiarly Thucydidean analysis of the role of rhetoric in political debate." (see Noel Malcolm, Oxford DNB). THE MACCLESFIELD COPY. LITERATURE: Wing T1134 PROVENANCE: Armorial bookplate, blind stamp, and shelf mark of the Earls of Macclesfield; The Library of the Earls of Macclesfield: Part 11, Sotheby's, London, 13 March 2008, lot 4054 To view Shipping Calculator, please click here

hobbes, transl. | thucydides. the history of the grecian war, 1676

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection N-Z

Thucydides. Thucydides cum commentariis antiquis et valde utilibus sine quibus author intellectu est quam difficillimus [Greek and Latin]. Florence: Bernardo I Giunta, 2 November 1506 [i.e. 1526]

Thucydides. Thucydides cum commentariis antiquis et valde utilibus sine quibus author intellectu est quam difficillimus [Greek and Latin]. Florence: Bernardo I Giunta, 2 November 1506 [i.e. 1526] The first Giunta edition of Thucydides. The colophon is printed in Greek and Latin, with the year of publication incorrectly printed as 1506 in the latter. Folio (314 x 196 mm). Greek type, 54 lines plus headline. collation: AA6 A-V8: 166 leaves. Woodcut devices on title and verso of last leaf, woodcut headpieces and initials, contemporary marginalia. (First and last few leaves lightly soiled, two small wormholes to title, faint marginal dampstaining, a few small paper flaws and dark stains.) binding: Sixteenth-century Spanish polished brown calf over pasteboards (318 x 198 mm), multiple frames, decorated with a medallion-head roll and a roll of tendrils and pecking birds, central frame with fleuron at inner angle and four fleurons forming cross at center, two clasps (missing) attaching to catches on lower cover, red edges, titled in large Roman letters on fore-edge. (Worn, losses to head, tail and sewing bands of spine, lower joint cracked, upper defective, endpapers stained with a few tears, wormholes, and paper repairs.) provenance: Unidentified owner(s), obliterated inscription "… Cas. 311 …" on title-page, contemporary marginal commentary, underlinings, and nota marks — Sotheby's London, 1–2 December 1993, lot 264 (realized £1150). acquisition: Purchased at Sotheby's via Marlborough Rare Books. references: Renouard XLIX/87; Edit16 27952; USTC 859005; Decia & Delfiol p. 131 no. 196

View 1 of Lot 1498: Thucydides, Historiae, Florence, Bernardo I Giunta, 2 November 1506 [i.e. 1526], Spanish, ca. 1530, polished brown calf 

thucydides, historiae, florence, bernardo i giunta, 2 november 1506 [i.e. 1526], spanish, ca. 1530, polished brown calf

Thucydides. Thoukydidis. Thucydides [Greek]. Venice: Aldo Manuzio, May 1502

Thucydides. Thoukydidis. Thucydides [Greek]. Venice: Aldo Manuzio, May 1502 Editio princeps of the first and still most famous work in the Western historical tradition and the foundation of "scientific history," bound by Niccolò Franzese for Apollonio Filareto; later in the libraries of Cortlandt Field Bishop and Otto Schäfer. Three groups of Filareto's bindings can be distinguished. This binding belongs to a group of eight done by Franzese and is the only one in folio format. Born in Reims under the French name of Nicolas Fery but living in Rome from about 1526 on, he was one of the most successful Roman binders of the period. The evolution of his style has been divided into three different phases: the present work belongs to the second group where the pattern of the design is still influenced by the French style of binding. Apollonio Filareto exemplifies the Italian class of Secretaries, from Machiavelli to Gabriel Naudé, who acted as shadow advisors to Renaissance princes. Little is known about Filareto's life except that he belonged to the inner circle of the Farnese, whom he undoubtedly served "both zealously and efficiently" (G. D. Hobson, Maioli, p. 112). His fidelity to the Farnese is symbolized on his bindings (here on the lower cover) by the fleur-de-lys ornaments which, repeated six times, were their arms; the clasped hands signify "love, unity, concord, friendship, loyalty" (Maioli, p. 114). Filareto served in the 1530s as Secretary to the Farnese Pope Paul III, and in 1537 became chief advisor to his son, Pier Luigi—a man of evil fame whose corruption is well known through the Life of Benvenuto Cellini. He was created by his father duke of Parma and Piacenza where Filareto accompanied him. Because of his tyrannical rule, he was assassinated in September 1547. Filareto was subsequently tortured and imprisoned for three years. Disabused of ecclesiastical and dynastic politics, Alessandro Farnese gave him the parish of S. Sisto in Viterbo and he died there in 1569. The use of an impresa as a personal emblem was very popular during the period, as were cameos and initials. Filareto's patron, Paul III, was a great lover of glyptic art. The device on the upper cover, an eagle flying over rocks, represents Filareto's fortune untouched by human contingencies and the device, "Este procul," is paraphrased from the Sybil's command to Aeneas's companions not to enter the underworld: "Procul o procul este profani" (Virgil, Aeneid, VI, 258). The Bibliotheca Brookeriana Thucydides is one of seventeen Filareto bindings presently recorded, see Halwas; and six in private hands (the Petrarca was in 2024 with Bortolani). Two others from the Brooker library have recently been offered: Bembo, Epistolarum libri XVI (Lyon: Thibaud Payen, 1540) and Abravanel, Dialogi di amore (Venice: in the house of the sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1541). The other two are the 1535 Aldine Lactantius (last seen in the Esmerian sale, in 1972) and a now-empty binding by Marcantonio Guillery once housing the second part of the 1497 Aldine Iamblichus (last traced in the Wittock sale, in 2004). For the other Brooker examples, with further background on Filareto and his bindings, please see Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. Magnificent Books and Bindings, lot 10 (New York, 11 October 2023) and The Aldine Collection A–C, lot 92 (New York, 12 October 2023). Chancery folio (294 x 194 mm.) Greek type, with some italic and Roman, 55 lines plus headline. collation: πΑA8 ΑA–ΞO8 ΟP4 (-ΟP4): 123 (of 124) leaves (lacking final blank ΟP4; with blank πΑA8). Four-, five, nine-, and twelve-line initial spaces with guide letters. (Dampstaining in upper fore-edge corner affecting text at beginning and end with fore-edge margins of quire ΟP repaired, tear in ΞO1 affecting text and repaired, small ink stain on fore-edge and margins of first six quires.) binding: Roman brown morocco (296 x 202 mm) by Niccolò Franzese, ca. 1544, covers panelled gilt, floral corner tools, three borders formed by a single gilt fillet alternating with double blind fillets, roll-tooled arabesque outer border, inner border of interlocking rectangles, filled with three repeated floral tools, all within frames of blind fillets, front cover gilt- lettered at top THVCYDIDES GREC., gilt arabesque tools in center panel surrounding on the front cover a medallion with an eagle flying over a rocky shore and on the lower two fleurs-de-lys, the lettered mark of ownership APOL | LONII | PHILA | RETI. and a pair of clasped hands, spine in ten compartments with a single, small gilt floral tool in each, traces of four pairs of ties, gilt edges. (Dampstaining on upper fore-edge corners of the covers, mainly lower, two diagonal cuts on front cover, rebacked with original spine laid down, endpapers renewed using period paper, a bit of restoration to spine and extremities.) Half brown morocco folding-case. provenance: Apollonio Filareto (ca. 1505–1569), supralibros impresa — unidentified owner, seventeenth-century inscription "Fr. Dom(ini)cus Rubeus Bonon(ien)sis" on title-page [read as Frater Domenicus Rubens in Cortlandt Bishop sale catalogue] — unidentified owner, eighteenth-century inscription "Sauterive (or Dauterive?)" [as Dauterive in Cortlandt Bishop sale catalogue] — Louis-Alexandre Barbet (1850–1931); Henri Baudoin, Maurice Ader & Librairie Giraud-Badin, Paris, Catalogue de la Bibliothèque de feu M. L.-A. Barbet. Première partie, Paris, 13–14 June 1932, lot 148; purchased by — unidentified owner (FF 26,100) — Cortlandt Field Bishop (1870–1935) — Shirley Douglas Falcke (1889–1957); Kende Galleries at Gimbel Brothers, New York, The Magnificent French Library formed by the late Cortlandt F. Bishop; the property of Mr. and Mrs. Shirley Falcke, 7–8 December 1948, lot 316; purchased by — unidentified owner ($290) — Albert-Louis Natural (1918–2002) — Librairie Quentin, Molènes, Geneva; Catalogue 7 (Geneva, 1985), item 99 (CHF 56,000) — Otto Schäfer (1912–2000), acquired in 1985 (OS 1314) — Otto-Schäfer-Stiftung e.V., Schweinfurt; Sotheby's New York, The Collection of Otto Schäfer. Part I: Italian Books, 8 December 1994, lot 181 ($57,500). acquisition: Purchased at Sotheby's via Martin Breslauer, Inc. references: UCLA 57; Adams T662; Aldo Manuzio tipografa 60; Edit16 55824; Renouard 33/4; USTC 859004; for the binding: Manfred von Arnim, Europäische Einbandkunst aus sechs Jahrhunderten 30; De Marinis, La Legatura artistica in Italia nei secoli XV e XVI, no. 825 and pl. 132 ; A. Hobson, Apollo and Pegasus, no. 8; G. D. Hobson, Maioli, Canevari and Others, pp. 112–119

View 1 of Lot 1497: Thucydides, Historiae, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1502, Roman brown morocco by Niccolò Franzese

thucydides, historiae, venice, aldo manuzio, 1502, roman brown morocco by niccolò franzese

The Library of a Greek Bibliophile: Travel books, Aldines and an important Qur’an 

THUCYDIDES Venice: (in the house of Aldus, May 1502) Folio (298 x 205mm.), text in Greek, without blank leaves AA8 and OP4, later tan calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges, slipcase, rebacked retaining original spine, binding slightly rubbed and soiled EDITIO PRINCEPS. Aldus issued Thucydides' narrative of the Peloponnesian War shortly before his Herodotus (see lot 2); both were in the same format, on the same paper, and with the same smaller typeface (copies are often found bound together). The preface is addressed to the Venetian patrician Daniele Renier, a scholar who had provided manuscripts for Aldus to use for this edition. LITERATURE: Aldo Manuzio tipografo 60; Edit16 55824; Renouard 1502/4; UCLA 57 PROVENANCE: Le Comte Foy, armorial bookplate; binder's ticket of Lebrun, Paris, "exposition de 1839"

thucydides. venice, aldus, 1502. eighteenth-century calf gilt

Fine Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana

Thucydides. Thoukydidis. Thucydides [Greek]. Venice: Aldo Manuzio, May 1502 Folio (322 x 206 mm). Greek type, with some italic and Roman, 55 lines plus headline. Collation: πΑA8 ΑA–ΞO8 ΟP4: 124 leaves; title-page a little soiled. French black morocco, c.1540, likely from the atelier of Étienne Roffet, central gilt arabesque to covers, double gilt filets with cornerpieces, spine gilt with six-petal rosette tools, edges gilt; head of spine a little worn, joints very lightly cracked. A fine, tall copy, complete with the two final blank leaves, of the first Greek edition of the earliest and still most famous work in the Western historical tradition and the foundation of "scientific history." Printed by Aldus Manutius in May 1502, this was among the earliest classical historians issued from the Aldine press. Prepared from manuscripts supplied by the Venetian patrician Daniele Renier, the edition appeared just before Aldus’s Herodotus, in the same folio format, on the same paper stock, and with the same smaller Greek type; the two are often found bound together. The binding, a refined Parisian morocco of around 1540, belongs to the elegant Renaissance idiom associated with the atelier of Étienne Roffet, relieur du roi to François I. The layout — a central gilt arabesque within a panel of double gilt fillets with azured fleurons and six-petal rosettes in the spine compartments — accords closely with tools used in his shop. Esmerian described it as a "fort belle reliure d’une sobre élégance," and the copy is illustrated as no. 120 in the first Esmerian sale. A well-provenanced and finely bound example. REFERENCES UCLA 57; Adams T 662; Aldo Manuzio tipografo 60; Edit16 55824; Renouard 33/4; USTC 859004 PROVENANCE Early owners (manuscript ownership inscriptions to title and margins) — unidentified armorial bookplate — Robert Hoe (morocco booklabel to pastedown; his sale, 1912, II, no. 3239) — Raphaël Esmerian (booklabel; his sale, Georges Blaizot and Claude Guérin, Paris, 6 June 1972, lot 120)

View 1 of Lot 1095: Thucydides | The Esmerian-Hoe copy of the first and still most famous work in the Western historical tradition

thucydides | the esmerian-hoe copy of the first and still most famous work in the western historical tradition

19th C. Paintings, Furniture, Maiolica, Silver and Rare Books

folio (302x206 mm), prima edizione, 135 (di 136 carte, manca a1 bianca), 47 linee, carattere romano, grandi margini, capilettera in rosso e blu, pergamena rigida antica, dorso liscio e manoscritto, tagli a spruzzo. Alcuni piccoli fori di tarlo che talvolta toccano il testo, un poco più grandi sulle prime 5 carte, i colori di alcuni capilettera sono passati alla pagina opposta, tasselli del dorso mancanti.

folio (302x206 mm), prima edizione, 135 (di 136 carte, manca a1 bianca), 47 linee, carattere romano, grandi margini, capilettera in rosso e blu, pergamena rigida antica, dorso liscio e manoscritto, tagli a spruzzo. Alcuni piccoli fori di tarlo che talvolta toccano il testo, un poco più grandi sulle prime 5 carte, i colori di alcuni capilettera sono passati alla pagina opposta, tasselli del dorso mancanti.Goff T-359; HC *15511; IGI 9641; BMC VI 896; Polain (B) 3782

historia belli peloponnesiaci. [treviso: johannes (rubeus) vercellensis, 1483?]

folio (316 x 204mm.), Greek letter, initial spaces with printed guides, eighteenth-century panelled calf, spine gilt in compartments, without the final blank leaf, light staining in a few margins, binding slightly rubbed, spine chipped at head and foot

qoukudidhs. thucydides. venice: aldus manutius, may 1502

Shrubland Park, Suffolk, England - Country House Sale

including works by thucydides and cicero, and the lives of plutarch and cicero, eighteenth and nineteenth century editions, all 8vo, calf gilt (30)

L12401

Reissner, Adam. Jerusalem, die alte Haubtstat der Jüden. Frankfurt, 1574-1574-1569, 3 volumes in one, folio (292 x 185mm.), titles to vol.1 and 3 printed in red and black, double-page woodcut view of Jerusalem, double-page map of the Holy Land and Eastern Mediterranean, woodcuts in text, eighteenth-century half vellum, somewhat browned and spotted, ?paper flaw in fol.14 vol.2, binding slightly worn, tear in spine without loss

Reissner, Adam. Jerusalem, die alte Haubtstat der Jüden. Frankfurt, 1574-1574-1569, 3 volumes in one, folio (292 x 185mm.), titles to vol.1 and 3 printed in red and black, double-page woodcut view of Jerusalem, double-page map of the Holy Land and Eastern Mediterranean, woodcuts in text, eighteenth-century half vellum, somewhat browned and spotted, ?paper flaw in fol.14 vol.2, binding slightly worn, tear in spine without lossBirken, Sigmund von. Der Donau-Strand... auch samt kurtzer Verfassung einer Hungar und Türkischen Chronik. Nuremberg, 1664, first edition, 12mo (130 x 75mm.), 30 folding engraved plates (of more?), including a bird's-eye view of Constantinople, old vellum, clasps, [cf. Atabey 108 (second edition with map and 25 plates, of 33)], somewhat browned and spotted, verso of title strengthenedtogether 3 works from the library of Stephanos Carathéodory, with his bookplate

von dem peloponnenser krieg. augsburg, heynrich stayner, 1533, first edition in german, folio (296 x 200mm.), woodcut illustrations, contemporary blindstamped calf with metal fittings, [adams t683; vd 16 t1128], rather stained and soiled, single wormhole in text of second half, tear in bb1 repaired, occasional fraying and tears, lacking last leaf (blank), binding worn 

The Library of the Earls of Macclesfield Removed from Shirburn Castle. Part Twelve: Continental Books and Manuscripts

folio (302 x 192mm.), [24], 225, [3], 177 (i.e. 128), [4]pp., ruled throughout in brown, illustration: woodcut printer's device on verso of final leaf, woodcut initials, manuscript marginalia, binding: eighteenth-century speckled calf, morocco lettering-piece, small tear to q4 affecting a few letters, binding scraped

qoukudidhv meta sxoliwn palaiwn kai panu wfelimwn... thucydides cum scholiis et antiquis et utilibus... basel: johannes herwagen, 1540

Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War, translated by Benjamin Jowett. Doves Press, 1930

Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War, translated by Benjamin Jowett. Doves Press, 1930 folio, limited to 280 copies, of which this is one of 260 on paper, printed in red and black, initials by Graily Hewitt, original cream pigskin, uncut, stain on fore-edge and similar on top edge, binding lightly rubbed, small inkstains and minor grazes on upper cover, spine rubbed at head and foot References: Hornby XXXVII

thucydides. the history of the peloponnesian war, translated by benjamin jowett. doves press, 1930

Thucydides. [The History of the Peloponnesian War] translated into English by Benjamin Jowett. Ashendene Press, 1930

Thucydides. [The History of the Peloponnesian War] translated into English by Benjamin Jowett. Ashendene Press, 1930 folio, limited to 280 copies of which this is one of 260 on paper, printed in red and black, initials and opening lines in red after Graily Hewitt, original pigskin, binding worn and soiled

thucydides. [the history of the peloponnesian war] translated into english by benjamin jowett. ashendene press, 1930

thucydides

The History of the Grecian War... translated from the original by Thomas Hobbes... The second edition. London: Andrew Clark for Charles Harper, 1676

The History of the Grecian War... translated from the original by Thomas Hobbes... The second edition. London: Andrew Clark for Charles Harper, 1676 folio (320 x 200mm.), additional engraved title-page, printed title in red and black, 3 folding maps, 2 plates, contemporary speckled calf, slightly soiled in margins at end, rebacked

thucydides.

thucydides.  the history of the peloponnesian warâ, ashendene press, 1930, limited to...

thucydides. thucidides... historien schreiber von dem peloponnenser krieg (translated by...

thucydides. qoukididhs thucydides. (venice: aldus manutius, may 1502), folio...

Music, Continental and Russian Books and Manuscripts

folio (345 x 210mm.), parallel Latin and Greek text, woodcut printer's device on title-page and final verso, title woodcut initials and headpieces, RED MOROCCO GILT FOR NICOLAS-CLAUDE FABRI DE PEIRESC, most likely bound for him in Paris, with his small Greek monogram within an oval made of laurel branches on covers, double gilt fillet borders, spine gilt in compartments, speckled edges, occasional light browning, slight worming at foot, title-leaf becoming loose, spine repaired at head and foot, upper joint cracked

de bello peloponnesiaco libri octo. frankfurt: heirs of andreas wechel, claude marne and jean aubry, 1594

Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie  Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts

Two works in one volume, Super-Chancery folio (11 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.; 285 x 208mm). Thucydides: Text in Greek, with blank leaves AA8 and OP4; first leaf repaired in gutter and at foot. Pausanias: Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso; small holes in first three leaves with loss of several words, cγ2-3 with small section stuck together, small wormhole in gutter enlarging at end, last quire repaired in gutter, slight damp-staining at end, last leaf somewhat soiled. Modern crushed brown morocco in period style, spine lettered in gilt, old red speckled edges; some annotations shaved at head and foredge of leaves.

[de bello peloponnesiaco]. venice: aldus, may 1502 [bound with:] pausanias. opera. venice: aldus and andrea torresani, july 1516 woodcut aldine device on title-page and final verso.

Small folio (12 3/8 x 8 1/4 in.; 315 x 210 mm). Engraved title page by Thomas Cecill, two engraved plates and three maps; leaf Bbb4 mended in fore-margin without loss. Contemporary blind-ruled calf; extremities worn with a few skillful mends.

thucydides. eight bookes of the peloponnesian warre ... interpreted with faith and diligence immediately out of the greeke by thomas hobbes secretary to ye late earle of devonshire. london: imprinted for hen[ry] seile, and are to be sold at the tigres head in paules churchyard, 1629

Folio (13 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.; 340 x 220 mm). Greek and Latin text in parallel columns, Estienne device on title; a few small wormholes, small tear on the upper right corner of the title page, not affecting the text. Contemporary calf, three-line outer border ruled in blind, similarly ruled central panel with gilt floral cornerpieces, in the center the gilt arms of William Cecil, 1st baron Burghley, spine with raised bands and gilt center ornaments; later label, probably rebacked, repairs to joints.

thucydids de bello peloponnesiaco libri viiiiidem latine, ex interpretatione laurentii vallae, ab henrico stephano recognita in hac secunda editione... [geneva]: excudebat henricus stephanus, anno 1588

16mo (4 1/2 x 3 in.; 115 x 75 mm). Ruled in red, Jehan Barbé's printer device on title-page, dedicatory poem by Clement Marot. Contemporary Parisian binding: brown calf, gilt fillet, lozenge-shape compartment with azured floreate ornament of quatrefoil design, in a gilt fillet compartment "THOMAE WOTTONI. ET (A)MICORUM" on upper cover (correctly spelled "AMICORUM" on rear cover) in gilt letters, gilt date "1550"; corners and raised bands rubbed, number "18" written in white paint on the top of the spine with a 20 mm tear, upper joints fragile, tiny wormhole on the last cover and at the bottom of the spine. In a blue morocco box. 

l'histoire de thucydide athenien, de la guerre qui fut entre les peloponesiens & atheniens, translatée en langue francoyse par feu messire claude de seyssel lors evesque de marseille, et depuis archeveque de turin. paris: pierre gaultier pour jehan barbé et claude garamont, 1545

Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre... [translated] by Thomas Hobbes. London: Hen. Seile, 1629

Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre... [translated] by Thomas Hobbes. London: Hen. Seile, 1629Condition Note: first edition of hobbes' translation, folio (328 x 215mm.), engraved pictorial title, 5 maps, plates and plans, most folding or double-page, contemporary calf, modern slipcase, plate at p.155 loose, general map slightly cropped and torn with loss of one numeral, binding rebackedWe are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described in our catalogue. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSION CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.

folio (303x209mm), graece, prima edizione in greco, 124 carte, incluse le carte AA8 e OP4 bianche, spazi vuoti per iniziali con letterine guida, pelle impressa a secco su assi di legno del secolo XVI, remboitage, entro cofanetto moderno. Al frontespizio nota a penna 'Est.9.caj.4. n°10.' e un piccolo foro lungo il margine inferiore, lievi aloni marginali, più marcati sulle prime e ultime carte, riparazioni marginali all'ultima carta bianca, dorso restaurato, lacune e ritocchi agli angoli e sui piatti, fermagli mancanti.

folio (303x209mm), graece, prima edizione in greco, 124 carte, incluse le carte AA8 e OP4 bianche, spazi vuoti per iniziali con letterine guida, pelle impressa a secco su assi di legno del secolo XVI, remboitage, entro cofanetto moderno. Al frontespizio nota a penna 'Est.9.caj.4. n°10.' e un piccolo foro lungo il margine inferiore, lievi aloni marginali, più marcati sulle prime e ultime carte, riparazioni marginali all'ultima carta bianca, dorso restaurato, lacune e ritocchi agli angoli e sui piatti, fermagli mancanti.Adams T 662; Renouard 33/4

[de bello peloponnesiaco]. (venezia: in domo aldi, 1502)

BEMBO, PIETRO. Epistolarum Leonis decimi pontificis maximi nomine scriptarum libri XVI. Placuit praeterea ejusdem autoris epistolas aliquot sanequam doctas adnectere, videlicet ad Longolium III; ad Budaeum II; ad Erasmum I. Lyon: Thibaud Payen, 1540

View 1 of Lot 36: Bembo, Epistolarum libri XVI, Lyon, 1540, Roman impresa binding by Niccolò Franzese for Apollonio Filareto

bembo, epistolarum libri xvi, lyon, 1540, roman impresa binding by niccolò franzese for apollonio filareto

XENOPHON Απαντα... opera, quae quidem graece extant, omnia [edited by Sébastien Châteillon]. Basel: Michael Isengrin, [c. 1545] bound in 2 volumes, 8vo (171 x 108mm.), woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials, text in Greek, old Italian vellum, lacking ties Châteillon (or Castellio) was professor of Greek at Basel and edited and translated several Greek texts for publication, including Homer, Herodotus and Thucydides. He produced this text for the printer Brylinger, first appearing in 1545, closely followed by numerous other Basel editions in the 1550s and 1560s, including the present undated edition. (Several of these editions contain parallel text in Greek and Latin, or just Latin; the present edition contains the original Greek.) LITERATURE: VD16 X 3 PROVENANCE: note on flyleaf in Latin stating that the two volumes were bought for 20 baiocchi

xenophon. opera. basel, isengrin, [c. 1545]. 2 volumes, old vellum

Bibliotheca Brookeriana III: Art, architecture and illustrated books

Dürer, Albrecht. Alberti Dureri pictoris et architecti praestantissimi De urbibus, arcibus, castellisque condendis, ac muniendis rationes aliquot praesenti bellorum necessitati accommodatissimae: nunc recens è lingua Germanica in Latinam traductae. Paris: Chrétien Wechel, 1535 [bound with:]

Dürer, Albrecht. Alberti Dureri pictoris et architecti praestantissimi De urbibus, arcibus, castellisque condendis, ac muniendis rationes aliquot praesenti bellorum necessitati accommodatissimae: nunc recens è lingua Germanica in Latinam traductae. Paris: Chrétien Wechel, 1535 [bound with:] Thucydides. Thucydidis Atheniensis historiographi longe clarissimi De bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo: ab Laurentio Vallensi translati, & a doctissimis viris cum grecis collati: cum eiusdem vita & indice amplissimo. Paris: Josse Bade and Jean Petit, (1 September 1528) First Latin edition in Joachim Camerarius's translation of Dürer’s Unterricht zu Befestigung der Stett (see lot 512), with woodcuts closely copied from the earlier edition, bound with a copy of Valla's Latin translation of Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War. The library of Francisco Pérez Cabrera y Bobadilla, numbering perhaps 400-500 volumes, was bound for him in the late sixteenth century with distinctive title cartouches drawn on the foredge of each volume; the books were given a category by language (L for Latin as here, Italian, Portuguese, French or Romance) along with the date of binding, mostly 1592 or 1593. Some of his books were acquired in Medina del Campo in 1592 from Juan Boyer and bound by Juan Sarría, a bookseller in Alcalà and Madrid. The bulk of the Bobadilla library is now in the Zabálburu library in Madrid, purchased in the late nineteenth century from Pedro Vindel, where it is still shelved with the foredges facing out. A Don Antonio Vela translated Sepúlveda from Spanish into Latin, printed in Toledo in 1566. 2 works in one volume, folio (317 x 207 mm), Thucydides bound first. Both works in roman type. Dürer: collation: a6 b4 c5 d4 e6 f5 g4 h5: 40 leaves. Title-page with woodcut printer's device, printer's device on final verso (otherwise blank), numerous woodcut illustrations (of which 10 folding); Thucydides: collation: a8 a-m8: 104 leaves. Title-page with woodcut printer's device and within woodcut border, woodcut initials. (Final plate of Dürer strengthened at fold, light spotting and marginal dampstaining particularly at beginning and end, endleaves browned and slightly chipped near metal clasps, otherwise a fine copy). binding: Later sixteenth-century Spanish light brown morocco gilt over wooden boards (326 x 216 mm), for the 6th Marqués de Moya, with his arms gilt on both covers within concentric frames of gilt and blind fillets with corner fleurons, spine with gilt rosette in each compartment, gilt and gauffered edges with "Thucydides" lettered in a cartouche across the foredge with the category L for Latin, two clasps. (Binding rubbed and scraped with slight loss on covers and at extremities, spine ends chipped, front board split and repaired.) provenance: M. Don Ant.o Vela, 1573, inscription on title-page of both works — Don Francisco Pérez Cabrera y Bobadilla, Marqués de Moya (1565-1627), bound for him in 1592 — manuscript note to verso of rear endpaper, recording that this copy was bought in Madrid on 3 August 1696 "del libr[er]o Diego Ximenez quinez[?]" — erased ownership inscription F.M. Hegener to verso of front flyleaf — Robert Chambers (1802-1871, founder of Chambers Encyclopedia), armorial bookplate — Cyril Ernest Kenney (1898-1973), sale, Sotheby's, 21 October 1968, lot 4300, £170, to Quaritch. acquisition: Purchased in 1997 from Bernard Quaritch, London. references: Dürer: Mortimer, Harvard French 184; USTC 182092; Thucydides: USTC 187322

View 1 of Lot 513: Dürer, De urbibus, arcibus, castellique condendis, Paris, 1535, Spanish morocco with arms of Marques de Moya

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