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Bound in a Mudejar style Spanish binding with a painted fore edge -The ex Toledo, Astorga, George Dunn copy-
Omnia opera in unum volumen congesta solerti cura ac diligantia emendata.
(Paris, printed by André Bocard and paid for) by Jehan Petit [and Josse Badius Ascensius], (1518). 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio (345 x 225 mm). [VIII], CLII; CXII.
With a very decorative figurative woodcut border and large printer's device of Jehan Petit on the title page. Many decorative initals in the text.
In a Spanish mudejar style blindtooled brown sheep binding over pine wood boards. On the covers several frames, alternating empty and filled with various aligned rope tools. Spine with 4 raised bands. Simple blind tooling in the compartments. Front edge painted in red-brown ink, central the title embedded in carnations and leaf work, surrounded by the coat of arms of Gómez Dávila y Toledo, 2nd Marqués de Velada. Two catches on the lower front board. In a green cloth preservation box. Rare second editon of the works of Richard de St. Victor in a contemporary Mudejar binding, with a late 16th century painted fore-edge with including the coat of arms of Gómez Dávila y Toledo, 2nd Marqués de Velada. He owned a substantial scholarly library of more than 500 volumes; his brother Sancho, bishop of Plasencia, also owned books with similar fore-edge decoration, but with a bishop?s hat rather than a crown above one of the armorials. The library of Gómez Dávila y Toledo contained around 300 volumes in 1596, and by 1624 the family library contained over 2,500, including those of both brothers. One of his daughters married the Marqués de Astorga, and the library merged with that of the Astorgas, along with other noble collections acquired through marriage. At the death of a later Marqués de Astorga in 1816, the family was in such debt that much of the vast library was sold in the 1820s, though this volume seems to have remained in the family until 1870.
It later came in possession of George Dunn of Wolley Hall whose vast collection was sold at Sothebys in 4670 lots between 1913 and 1917. He had a carefulley selected collection, and was one of the first collectors who seriously cared about preservation. The green cloth protective case in which this book is housed, can be regarded as one of the earliest preservation boxes in the modern sense.
-Provenance: Gómez Dávila y Toledo (1541-1616), arms on fore-edge; by family descent to Vicente Joaquín Osorio de Moscoso (1744-1816), marqués de Astorga, printed label pasted to verso title page ?Biblioteca del excmo. Señor Marques de Astorga?, sale, Delbergue-Cormont, Catalogue de la bibliothèque de son excellence le Marquis d?Astorga Troisième partie Paris, 1870, lot 241; George Dunn (1865-1912) with his printed ticket: "From the libaray of George Dunn of Wooley Hall near Maidenfield"; J. Kasteel, in pencil on fly leaf.
-Literature: Moreau II no 1934; Adams R-502; On Dunn: Seymour de Ricci, p. 182f.
-Condition: Spineheads restored (old); Movable parts of the clasps lacking; Some minor, not disturbing, issues to the binding; Lower paste down browned and some damage; Preservation box some damage; Rare early Spanish mudejar binding with a splendid proveance.
With a very decorative figurative woodcut border and large printer's device of Jehan Petit on the title page. Many decorative initals in the text.
In a Spanish mudejar style blindtooled brown sheep binding over pine wood boards. On the covers several frames, alternating empty and filled with various aligned rope tools. Spine with 4 raised bands. Simple blind tooling in the compartments. Front edge painted in red-brown ink, central the title embedded in carnations and leaf work, surrounded by the coat of arms of Gómez Dávila y Toledo, 2nd Marqués de Velada. Two catches on the lower front board. In a green cloth preservation box. Rare second editon of the works of Richard de St. Victor in a contemporary Mudejar binding, with a late 16th century painted fore-edge with including the coat of arms of Gómez Dávila y Toledo, 2nd Marqués de Velada. He owned a substantial scholarly library of more than 500 volumes; his brother Sancho, bishop of Plasencia, also owned books with similar fore-edge decoration, but with a bishop?s hat rather than a crown above one of the armorials. The library of Gómez Dávila y Toledo contained around 300 volumes in 1596, and by 1624 the family library contained over 2,500, including those of both brothers. One of his daughters married the Marqués de Astorga, and the library merged with that of the Astorgas, along with other noble collections acquired through marriage. At the death of a later Marqués de Astorga in 1816, the family was in such debt that much of the vast library was sold in the 1820s, though this volume seems to have remained in the family until 1870.
It later came in possession of George Dunn of Wolley Hall whose vast collection was sold at Sothebys in 4670 lots between 1913 and 1917. He had a carefulley selected collection, and was one of the first collectors who seriously cared about preservation. The green cloth protective case in which this book is housed, can be regarded as one of the earliest preservation boxes in the modern sense.
-Provenance: Gómez Dávila y Toledo (1541-1616), arms on fore-edge; by family descent to Vicente Joaquín Osorio de Moscoso (1744-1816), marqués de Astorga, printed label pasted to verso title page ?Biblioteca del excmo. Señor Marques de Astorga?, sale, Delbergue-Cormont, Catalogue de la bibliothèque de son excellence le Marquis d?Astorga Troisième partie Paris, 1870, lot 241; George Dunn (1865-1912) with his printed ticket: "From the libaray of George Dunn of Wooley Hall near Maidenfield"; J. Kasteel, in pencil on fly leaf.
-Literature: Moreau II no 1934; Adams R-502; On Dunn: Seymour de Ricci, p. 182f.
-Condition: Spineheads restored (old); Movable parts of the clasps lacking; Some minor, not disturbing, issues to the binding; Lower paste down browned and some damage; Preservation box some damage; Rare early Spanish mudejar binding with a splendid proveance.
€ 5.000
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