MONUMENTORUM ITALIAE. QUAE HOC NOSTRO SAECULO & A CHRISTIANIS POSITA SUNT, LIBRI QUATUOR. HELMSTEDT: JAKOB LUCIUS, 1592
folio (305 x 186mm.), woodcut device on title-pages, woodcut initials and headpieces, EARLY SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY RED MOROCCO GILT FOR FABRI DE PEIRESC, with his Greek monogram stamped on covers, most probably by Simon Corberan in Aix-in-Provence, spine gilt in compartments, title and dated lettered in gilt in second compartment, WITH A 2-PAGE LETTER extracted from one of De Peiresc's letter books (in a secretarial hand) tipped in at the front, some foxing and browning, extremities slightly rubbed
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Book: Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637), arms on binding and monogram stamped on title-page; DD.2.30, old shelfmark on inside front cover; Henry Augustus Brudenell-Bruce (1842-1911), 5th marquess of Ailesbury, sale, Sotheby's, 3-5 March 1919, lot 500, £4, Tregaskis
Letter: Alfred Morrison (1821-1897, a prolific collector of manuscripts), his sale, Third Portion, Sotheby's, 9-13 December 1918, lot 2534, £6, Tregaskis (described as autograph, not secretarial)
Both: James Tregaskis, Caxton Head, item 270 in one of his catalogues, price £16; Lucius Wilmerding, bookplate, sale, Parke-Bernet, 6 March 1951, lot 595; Saul Cohn, sale, Parke-Bernet, 19 October 1955, lot 846 (with the letter described as autograph), extract from sale catalogue loosely inserted