Marcus (1540) Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Marcus (1540) Art Value Price Guide

Jul. 11, 2024
Cicero | Opera, Paris, Torresano, 1544, 4 volumes, later calf gilt
Est: £2,000 - £3,000
Marcus Tullius Cicero Opera omnia, quae exstant, a Dionysio Lambino Monstroliensis ex codicibus manuscriptis emendata, & aucta. Paris: (Fleury Prévost for) Bernardo Torresani, (February) 1566 (1565) 4 volumes, folio (390 x 250 mm.), woodcut Aldine device on title-pages, woodcut initials and headpieces, without final blank leaf in volume 3, later smooth tan calf, triple gilt fillet border, spine gilt, title to volume 3 slightly stained, lower corner of volumes 3 & 4 slightly creased, small marginal wormholes and light damp-staining at end of volume 4, extremities slightly rubbed A TALL COPY with deckle edges. The printer, Prévost, produced this scholarly edition for three different booksellers. The text was edited by Denis Lambin, a notable scholar and editor of Latin texts, and provided with annotations and indexes and fragmentary texts. As usual, leaf yyy4 in volume 2 has a small printed cancel slip over the signature. REFERENCES: UCLA 1059; USTC 158162 PROVENANCE: Hen. Ben. Hall, inscription on title-page
Sotheby's
Jul. 09, 2024
Vitruvius, Architettura, con il suo commento et figure, Perugia, 1536, later mottled calf, Félibien's copy
Est: £3,000 - £4,000
Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus. Architettura, con il suo commento et figure. Vetruvio in volgar lingua raportato per M. Gianbatista Caporali di Perugia. Perugia: Giano Bigazzini, 1 April 1536 André Félibien's copy of Vitruvius; it was previously owned by another artist, Bartolommeo Almi of Siena. The publisher of this edition, Conte Giano Bigazzini, is depicted in military dress; he had worked as a condottiere for the Republic of Venice before retiring to his native Perugia and immersing himself in literary and artistic pursuits. His private press produced just two works: this edition of Vitruvius's first five books prepared by the Perugian artist Giovanni Battista Caporali, and a volume of poems by Lodovico Dolce. The printer may have been Luca Bini who was in Perugia at this time. Small folio (275 x 197 mm). Roman type, 71 lines plus headline. collation: A12 B-Q8 R2: 134 leaves. Woodcut architectural title-page with portrait and arms of the translator in the border, dedication leaf with full-length woodcut portrait of Giano Bigazzini, 81 woodcut illustrations, manuscript index at front of volume. (Occasional light spotting and staining, paper flaw to P8, R1 remargined at gutter, slight marginal worming in O7-R2.) binding: Later mottled calf (282 x 208 mm), rebacked with the new spine tooled in period style, retaining a gilt heron (perhaps the device of an early owner) at the foot of the spine, red morocco label to second compartment, speckled edges, marbled endpapers. (Rebacked, binding slightly rubbed.) provenance: Bartolommeo di Francesco Almi of Siena (ca. 1510-1574, painter), with his manuscript index and his arms in brown ink with wash on verso of A2 — André Félibien des Avaux (1619-1695, architect and art critic), ownership inscription on title-page (trimmed) and bookplate dated 1669 on final leaf — [presumably Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow, bibliographical notes in pencil in the same hand as their other books]. acquisition: Purchased in 1988 from Bernard Quaritch, London. references: BAL RIBA 3536; Edit16 54111; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 546
Sotheby's
Jul. 09, 2024
Vitruvius, Architettura, Venice, 1535, modern calf in period style
Est: £1,500 - £2,000
Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus. M. L. Vitruvio Pollione di architettura dal vero esemplare latino nella volgar lingua tradotto, e con le figure a suoi luoghi con mirando ordine insignito. Anchora con la tavola alfabetica, nella quale facilmente si potra trovare la moltitudine de vocaboli a suoi luoghi con gran diligenza esposti, e dichiarati, mai piu da alcuno altro sin al presente stampato a grande utilita di ciascuno studioso. (Venice: Niccolò Zoppino, March) 1535 Second edition of Luci's text, which is predominantly based on the 1521 Cesariano translation (lot 643). The illustrations are from the 1524 Sabio edition of Luci's Vitruvius (lot 644). Folio (300 x 207 mm). Roman type, 46 lines plus headline. collation: AA-BB6 A-N8 O6. Title-page in red and black within woodcut border, 136 in-text woodcuts, endleaves with early ink shelfmarks. (Slight browning and soiling, a few early leaves with slight dampstaining.) binding: Modern English calf blind-tooled in period style (282 x 208 mm), plain edges, retaining old pastedowns. (A few small marks to boards.) provenance: Sotheby's, 1 February 1988, lot 822. acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. references: BAL RIBA 3521; Edit16 41155; Fowler 399; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 545
Sotheby's
Oct. 12, 2023
Cicero, Officiorum libri III, Venice, Aldus, 1545, later calf with gilt arms of Cardinal Barberini
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. M. Tullii Ciceronis Officiorum libri III cum commentariis Petri Marsi & Ascensii. Dialogus de amicitia, cum commentariis Petri Marsi & Ascensii. Dialogus de senectute, cum commentariis Petri Marsi, Martini Filetici, & Ascensii. Paradoxa, interprete Ascensio. Accesserunt praeterea Des. Erasmi, & Philippi Melanchthonis scholia. Venice: [sons of] Aldo Manuzio, 1548 (1549) Folio (310 x 215 mm). Roman and italic type, double column, 83 lines of commentary plus headline. collation: A4 a-z6 2a-2c6 2d8: 168 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso (otherwise blank), woodcut initials. (Small tear at head of l4, occasional light staining.) binding: Later calf binding (317 x 223 mm), retaining panels from an early seventeenth-century Roman calf binding, gilt with the arms of Cardinal Barberini, spine with compartments outlined with double gilt fillet borders, plain edges, stubs from four pairs of ties. (Binding slightly rubbed and repaired with later endpapers) provenance: "Sum Joannis Brunetti Ligosiani"(?), inscription at foot of title-page stating that he was born around the Ides of November 1521 — [possibly] Cardinal Barberini (either Cardinal Antonio Barberini, 1607-1671, nephew of Urban VIII, made cardinal in 1627, or his brother Francesco Barberini, 1597-1679, made cardinal in 1623), arms on binding (added later?). acquisition: Purchased from Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris, 1978. references: UCLA 377 (not in collection); Edit16 12286; Renouard 143/6
Sotheby's
Oct. 12, 2023
Cicero, [Opera], Venice, Aldus, 1544-1546, 6 volumes, Parisian olive morocco by Grolier's Last Binder
Est: $30,000 - $40,000
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. [Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium libri IIII incerto auctore [part 1 (of 4)]: De inventione libri II]. Venice: heirs of Aldo Manuzio, September 1546 [Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium libri IIII incerto auctore, parts 2-3 (of 4):] De oratore, Ciceronis ad Q. fratrem libri III. Venice: sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1546. [Bound with:] De claris oratoribus Ciceronis liber, qui inscribitur Brutus variae lectiones ex antiquis libris, & ex ingenio. Venice: sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1546 Tullii Ciceronis Orationum pars I [-III]. Cum correctionibus Pauli Manutii. Venice: Paolo Manuzio, 1554 (3 volumes) Tullii Ciceronis Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad Quintum fratrem, cum correctionibus Pauli Manutij. Venice: Paolo Manuzio, 1555 Six volumes from a set of Cicero’s works bound in Paris by Grolier’s Last Binder, a shop working repeatedly for Jean Grolier (1489-1565) during the last ten years of life (he commissioned at least 23 bindings from it), and continuing for a short while after Grolier’s death. The shop also bound forty volumes for Claude III de Laubespine. The original owner for whom these bindings were executed is unknown. These six volumes contain inscriptions of three subsequent owners: “Simleri et amicorum”, evidently a member of the family from Kappel am Albis, near Zurich, and Giovanni Paravicini and Dario Paravicini, from the same town, the latter inscribing the books in 1715 while a student at Chur in the Grison. They are next recorded in the possession of Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham (17971878), entered in his 1864 library catalogue as part of a larger group of nine volumes, comprising the six offered here, plus De philosophia in two volumes (1555-1556), and De officiis (1555). The nine volumes were offered in the first instalment of the Ashburnham sale in 1897, where bought by the London booksellers J. & J. Leighton. The group was subsequently broken up and has now been partly reassembled. See previous lot for another similar but not identical binding from the same workshop. 6 volumes, 8vo (152 x 95 mm), italic type, 30 lines plus headline. (1) A-Y8 Z4: 180 leaves. (2) A-Q8 R10: 138 leaves; A-G8: 56 leaves. (3-4) A-Z8 AA-SS8: 328 leaves; aa-zz8 Aa-Oo8 Pp4: 300 leaves. (5) aaa-zzz8 AAA-OOO8: 296 leaves. (6) A-Z8 AA-VV8 XX8: 348 leaves. (Occasional minor marginal stains.) binding: Parisian bindings (159 x 104 mm), ca. 1560, uniformly bound by Grolier’s Last Binder, olive goatskin, each with gilt blocked arabesque corners and large centerpiece, gilt edges; III-VI) all volumes have 4 endleaves at the beginning and end, except vol. 1 of Orationes which has only 3 at the beginning, with watermarks: pot with one handle and a crown, similar to Briquet 12742 (Chartres 1557) and 12731-12793 (variously, 1550-1580s). (Vol. I rebacked; vols. II-VI with later titling in second and third compartments of spine, a few stains on covers, wear at ends of spines of three volumes, some other minor areas of rubbing.) provenance: Unidentified owner (inscription "Simleri et amicorum" or similar on all title-pages) — Giovanni Paravicini di Capelli (inscription) — Dario Paravicini di Capelli (inscription) — Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878, A Catalogue alphabetically arranged of the more rare and curious printed books in the library at Ashburnham Place ([London?] 1864), unpaginated (q.v. Cicero, “various works collected in 9 volumes”, sale, Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge, 25 June-3 July 1897, lot 1110, “together 9 vol. … some vol. with autographs of Joannes Pallavicini and Simleri et Amicorum”, £5- 12-6 to) — J. & J. Leighton, London [at this stage the set was broken up]. Vol. 1: Christie, Manson & Woods, New York, 9 June 1999, lot 34. acquisition: Purchased from the preceding sale via Robin Halwas. Vols. 2-4: Leo Olschki, ticket. acquisition: Purchased from Martin Breslauer Inc., New York, 1987. Vol. 5: acquisition: Purchased from Martin Breslauer Inc., New York, 1987. Vol. 6: acquisition: Purchased from Sokol Books, London, 2020. references: UCLA 346, 468, 476, 346; Edit16 12274, 12322, 12317, 12274; Renouard 136/7, 161/13, 161/17, 136/7
Sotheby's
Oct. 12, 2023
Cicero, Officiorum libri tres, Venice, Aldus, 1545, Parisian calf gilt by Grolier's Last Binder
Est: $7,000 - $10,000
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Marci Tullii Ciceronis Officiorum libri tres: Cato maior, vel de senectute: Laelius, vel de amicitia: Paradoxa stoicorum sex: Somnium Scipionis, ex libro sexto De republica. Venice: Paolo Manuzio, (March) 1545 See the following lot for a set of Cicero also by Grolier's Last Binder. 8vo (157 x 97 mm). Italic text, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-P8 Q10: 130 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso. binding: Parisian brown calf (162 x 104 mm), ca. 1560, richly gold tooled by Grolier's Last Binder, sides decorated with large arabesque centerpiece, large azured trefoil in corners, within a frame of double gilt fillets, flat spine with small gilt stamps, edges gilt with title "OFFICIA TVLL" lettered in ink along fore-edge, stubs from two pairs of ties. (Ends of spine repaired, upper joint cracked at foot.) provenance: Sotheby & Co., London, 22-23 June 1970, lot 206, £20, to Maggs — Marie-Françoise Robert, Franck Baillie and Jacques Benelli, sale, Paris, 1 February 2008, lot 112 — Pierre Bergé, sale, Paris, 16 December 2020, lot 1009. acquisition: Purchased from Pierre Bergé sale. references: UCLA 323 (no copy listed); Edit16 12267; Renouard 131/7
Sotheby's
Oct. 12, 2023
Cicero, Officiorum libri tres, Venice, Aldus, 1545, navy morocco by Bisiaux, de Thou-Renouard-Vernon copy
Est: $3,000 - $4,000
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Marci Tullii Ciceronis Officiorum libri tres: Cato maior, vel De senectute. Laelius, vel De amicitia. Paradoxa stoicorum sex. Somnium Scipionis ex libro sexto De Republica. Venice: sons of Aldo Manuzio, March 1545 The very fine de Thou–Renouard–Holford copy. 8vo (157 x 97 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-P8 Q10: 130 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso, ruled in red, inserted engraved frontispiece portrait of Cicero. binding: Blue morocco richly gilt (163 x 102 mm) by Pierre-Joseph Bisiaux (active 1777-1801), flat spine, gilt edges, pink watered silk board liners, vellum endleaves. provenance: Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617, signature “Thuanus” on title and last leaf; Pierre Dupuy, Catalogus bibliothecae Thuanae, Paris, 7 April 1680, II, p.9 [not traced in 1789 Soubise sale catalogue]) — Antoine-Augustin Renouard (1765-1853, stamp signed on inner front cover; his catalogue, 1819, II, p.100, and sale, Evans, 26-30 June 1828, lot 122) — George John Warren, 5th Baron Vernon (1802-1866), listed in the manuscript library catalogue of Sudbury Hall — Robert Stayner Holford (1808-1892, manuscript note on slip tipped to front free endpaper), and his son, Sir George Holford (1860-1926, sale, Sotheby & Co., 5-9 December 1927, lot 201, £25, to Bernard Quaritch) — Sir Robert Henry Abdy (1896-1976, bookplate, sale, Ader Picard Tajan & Claude Guérin, 29039 April 1976, lot 46 — Librairie Lardanchet, Paris, Beaux livres anciens et modernes (1996), item 14 — Cuvreau, Paris, 24 March 2009, lot 6. acquisition: Purchased at preceding sale via Thomas-Scheler. references: UCLA 323 (not in collection); Edit16 12267; Renouard 131/75
Sotheby's
Oct. 12, 2023
Cicero, Le epistole famigliari, Venice, Aldus, 1545, contemporary morocco gilt
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. [Le epistole famig. di Cicerone, tradotte secondo i veri sensi dell'auttore, et con figure proprie della lingua volgare, ristampate, et con molto studio rivedute, et corrette]. (Venice: in the house of the sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1545) The second edition produced in 1545, with 305 numbered leaves. The binding is very similar in design to those made by Jean Picard for Grolier at this time. 8vo (156 x 101 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-Z8 AA-OO8 PP10: 306 leaves (lacking title-page and final leaf with device only). (First and last few leaves slightly stained with small rust holes.) binding: Contemporary French black morocco gilt with interlacing strapwork and arabesque decoration (162 x 103 mm), with letters EP.F on upper cover and C on lower cover (representing Epistole Familiari and Cicero?), flat spine gilt, gilt edges, two clasps. (Lacking both straps and their attachments to lower cover, with resultant holes in lower board, extremities slightly rubbed.) provenance: Giovanni Tassinari, inscription on inside front cover. acquisition: Purchased from Librarie Paul Jammes, Paris, 1998. references: UCLA 332; Edit16 12265; Renouard 132/9
Sotheby's
Oct. 12, 2023
Cicero, Le epistole famigliari, Venice, Aldus, 1545, later half green sheep
Est: $300 - $400
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Le epistole famigliari di Cicerone, tradotte secondo i veri sensi dell'auttore, e con figure proprie della lingua volgare. Venice: sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1545 The first of two 1545 Aldine editions of this Italian translation of Cicero's letters, this one with 333 numbered leaves. 8vo (153 x 92 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-Z8 AA-SS8 TT6: 334 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso. (Title soiled and with one small marginal repair, some dampstaining throughout.) binding: Nineteenth-century Italian half green sheep over pebbled cloth boards (159 x 110 mm), spine gilt. (Some light wear at extremities.) acquisition: Purchased from Bottega Apulja, Bari, 1982. references: UCLA 331; Edit16 12264; Renouard 132/9
Sotheby's
Oct. 12, 2023
Cicero, Epistolae ad Atticum, Venice, Paolo Manuzio, 1544, Gomar Estienne binding for Mahieu, de Thou copy
Est: $40,000 - $60,000
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. M. Tullii Ciceronis Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad Quintum fratrem, multorum locorum correctione illustratae, ut, post omneis omnium editiones, exeant emendatissime. In quas omneis epistolae commentarij, separatim impressi, propediem edentur, auctore Paulo Manutio Aldi filio. Venice: Paolo Manuzio, November 1544 The Mahieu-de Thou-Abbey copy, in a fine Parisian binding. A reprint of Paolo Manuzio's new text of the Epistolae ad Atticum, previously published in 1540, retaining its dedicatory letter to Guillaume Pellicier. This copy was bound for Thomas Mahieu by Gommar Estienne. On fol. 41r in this edition is found Cicero’s letter to Atticus (Book 3, letter 5), which provided Maioli’s motto "inimici mei mea mihi"; see Frederick B. Adams, "Maioli’s mottoes and monograms" in Festschrift Otto Schäfer zum 75. Geburtstag (Stuttgart 1987), pp.451-459, and the introductory essay in Bibliotheca Brookeriana, part I, 11 October 2023. 8vo (161 x 99 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-Z8 AA-VV8 XX4: 348 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final leaf (otherwise blank). binding: Parisian binding (166 x 103 mm), ca. 1552, by Gomar Estienne for Thomas Mahieu, brown calf, richly gilt, decorated to an architectonic design, azured leaf-and-bud tools in center around a shaped cartouche containing M.T.C./ EPIST./AD/ ATTICVM on upper cover and Mahieu’s complex monogram on lower, in a cloth folding case. (Rebacked preserving most of the original spine panel, other restoration to corners, side panels slightly dry and cracked). provenance: Thomas Mahieu (ca. 1515/1527-after 1588, bookplate, his monogram on lower cover) — Jacques Auguste de Thou (1553-1617, with his name on the title and at foot of colophon; Pierre Dupuy, Catalogus bibliothecae Thuanae, Paris, 7 April 1680, II, p.255 [not traced in 1789 Soubise sale catalogue] — Lionel Tollemache, Earl of Dysart (1708-1770, sale, Sotheby’s, Catalogue of the renowned library removed from Ham House, Surrey, and sold by order of the Buckminster Estates, The first portion, London, 30-31 May 1938, lot 83, bought by Maggs Bros) — John Roland Abbey (1894-1969, sale, Sotheby’s London, 21-23 June 1965, lot 197, bought by Maggs Bros) — Charles van der Elst (1904-1982) — Ader Picard Tajan & Claude Guérin, Monte Carlo, 13 May 1985, lot 54. acquisition: Purchased at preceding sale via Martin Breslauer Inc. references: UCLA 320; Edit16 12257; Renouard 129/2; Anthony Hobson, French and Italian collectors and their bindings illustrated from examples in the library of J.R. Abbey (Oxford 1953), no. 14 (this copy); A. Hobson, “Les livres reliés pour Thomas Mahieu” in Bulletin du bibliophile (2004), pp.239-270 (p.250 no. 36)
Sotheby's
Oct. 12, 2023
Cicero, De philosophia, Venice, Paolo Manuzio, 1541, contemporary morocco gilt with portrait of Cicero
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. M. Tullii Ciceronis De philosophia prima pars [part 2:] De philosophia volumen secundum [part 3:] Scholia Pauli Manutii: quibus Ciceronis philosophia partim corrigitur partim explanatur… Venice: Paolo Manuzio, 1541 A similar corner swirl is seen on Davis Gift 283, a medallion binding made in Venice or Padua in the 1530s, and Davis Gift 338, an Aldine Cicero of 1561. 2 parts in one volume, 8vo (159 x 92 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: *4 a-z8 A-H8 I4: 256 leaves; A10 b-z8 [2]A-C8 [3]A-D8: 242 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-pages and final versos. (Ink stain on second title, some marginal worming at end.) binding: Contemporary Italian black morocco gilt (162 x 109 mm), sides paneled in gilt and blind, front cover with title lettered within a double circle PHILOSOPHIA M T CICERONIS, the rear cover with central gilt portrait bust of Cicero, gilt spirals in corners, spine in five compartments with four raised bands, later red morocco lettering piece. (Slightly worn and rubbed.) provenance: "Alexandri cividalii et suorum amicorum", early inscription on flyleaf and extensive marginalia and underlining — Marmaduke Dawnay, bookplate — Gilhofer and Ranschburg, Vienna, shelflabel — E.P. Goldschmidt, morocco booklabel — Ketterer Kunst, Hamburg, 21-22 May 2007, lot 33. acquisition: Purchased at preceding sale via Robin Halwas. references: UCLA 298; Edit16 12250; Renouard 122/4-5
Sotheby's
Jul. 11, 2019
Binding.- Gryphius.- Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) Institvtionvm oratoriarvm libri XII, in an interesting contemporary blind-stamped calf binding, Lyon, Sebastian Gryphius, 1536.
Est: £600 - £800
Binding.- Gryphius.- Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) Institvtionvm oratoriarvm libri XII, 2 parts in 1, collation: a-z, A-Q8 R4; aa-pp8 qq4, titles with woodcut printer's device, woodcut initials, occasional later ink marginalia in red or black, nn7&8 with neat tear within text, occasional staining, lightly browned, contemporary blind-stamped panelled calf, upper cover with lettering 'ADOPLHUS GLAUBUR - CGh' at head, spine in compartments and with floral and foliage decorations, spine chipped at ends and faded, corners worn, rubbed, remains of silk ties, 8vo (179 x 119mm.), Lyon, Sebastian Gryphius, 1536. ⁂ Provenance: 'Joannes Rodolphus ab Erlach' (late 16th / early 17th ink inscription to foot of title'; Bibliotheque de Spietz. The von Erlachs of Bern, Switzerland, were a prominent family of politicians, administrators and military commanders, who acquired the castle and lands of Spietz in 1516
Forum Auctions - UK
May. 31, 2017
MARTIALIS, Marcus Valerius (c. 40 â c. 104 BC). Epigrammaton Libri 14 Interpretantibus Domitio Calderino, Georgioque Merula cum Indice Copiosissimo â¦â¦ Venice: Ottaviano Scoto, 1542. Folio, Roman and Italic letter, main text in single column with smaller printed notes surrounding; historiated initials (some pages mis-numbered, lacking title page and final blank; light age yellowing, occasional spotting and marginal staining, worm trail slightly affecting text within first third of the book, a few leaves chipped). Contemporary limp vellum (slightly soiled, rubbed, upper board loosening). Provenance: marginal annotations in early hand in a few places. Later issue of this important edition of Martialâs Epigrams edited by the scholars Domizio Calderini (1446-1478) and Giorgio Merula (ca 1430-1494), first published in 1491 and reflecting the humanistic philological debate. Preliminaries and prologue include Calderiniâs dedicatory letters to Francesco Gonzaga and Lorenzo deâ Medici; Martialâs biography; Plinyâs letter to Cornelius Priscus; epigrams; Calderiniâs defense and an oration by Giorgio Alessandrino addressed to Angelo Adriano. Not in British Library. USTC 841162; EDIT 33519. SCARCE. With Titus Liviusâ (59-17AD) Historiarum ab Urbe Condita. Amsterdam: Daniel Elzevir,Â 1664. 8vo. Roman and Italic letter, a little Greek, printed notes below. Printerâs woodcut device on title page, decorative initials, head- and tail- pieces. Work originally in three vols. (only tome III; marginal light water staining on first leaves). Contemporary vellum over boards, early title lettered to spine, yapped edges (slightly soiled, pastedowns torn). And SCHERER, Heinrich (1628-1704). Atlas Novus. Exhibens orbem terraqueum per naturÃ¦ opera, historiÃ¦ novÃ¦ ac veteris monumenta, artisque geographicÃ¦ leges et prÃ¦cepta â¦â¦ Munich: Johann Caspar Bencards [1703-1710]. Work originally in 7 vols. (only 4 vols.; first vol. lacking illustrated title page; occasional spotting). Contemporary vellum over boards, fore edges sprinkled red (heavy worming to spines, slightly soiled and rubbed, some leaves loose,). Sold not subject to return (6).
Est: £100 - £150
MARTIALIS, Marcus Valerius (c. 40 â c. 104 BC). Epigrammaton Libri 14 Interpretantibus Domitio Calderino, Georgioque Merula cum Indice Copiosissimo â¦â¦ Venice: Ottaviano Scoto, 1542. Folio, Roman and Italic letter, main text in single column with smaller printed notes surrounding; historiated initials (some pages mis-numbered, lacking title page and final blank; light age yellowing, occasional spotting and marginal staining, worm trail slightly affecting text within first third of the book, a few leaves chipped). Contemporary limp vellum (slightly soiled, rubbed, upper board loosening). Provenance: marginal annotations in early hand in a few places. Later issue of this important edition of Martialâs Epigrams edited by the scholars Domizio Calderini (1446-1478) and Giorgio Merula (ca 1430-1494), first published in 1491 and reflecting the humanistic philological debate. Preliminaries and prologue include Calderiniâs dedicatory letters to Francesco Gonzaga and Lorenzo deâ Medici; Martialâs biography; Plinyâs letter to Cornelius Priscus; epigrams; Calderiniâs defense and an oration by Giorgio Alessandrino addressed to Angelo Adriano. Not in British Library. USTC 841162; EDIT 33519. SCARCE. With Titus Liviusâ (59-17AD) Historiarum ab Urbe Condita. Amsterdam: Daniel Elzevir,Â 1664. 8vo. Roman and Italic letter, a little Greek, printed notes below. Printerâs woodcut device on title page, decorative initials, head- and tail- pieces. Work originally in three vols. (only tome III; marginal light water staining on first leaves). Contemporary vellum over boards, early title lettered to spine, yapped edges (slightly soiled, pastedowns torn). And SCHERER, Heinrich (1628-1704). Atlas Novus. Exhibens orbem terraqueum per naturÃ¦ opera, historiÃ¦ novÃ¦ ac veteris monumenta, artisque geographicÃ¦ leges et prÃ¦cepta â¦â¦ Munich: Johann Caspar Bencards [1703-1710]. Work originally in 7 vols. (only 4 vols.; first vol. lacking illustrated title page; occasional spotting). Contemporary vellum over boards, fore edges sprinkled red (heavy worming to spines, slightly soiled and rubbed, some leaves loose,). Sold not subject to return (6).
Chiswick Auctions
Dec. 05, 2008
VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus. Architettura. Vetruvio in volgar lingua . Translated by Giovanni Battista Caporali (ca 1475-1555). Perugia: Giano Bigazzini, 1536.
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus. Architettura. Vetruvio in volgar lingua. Translated by Giovanni Battista Caporali (ca 1475-1555). Perugia: Giano Bigazzini, 1536. 2o (284 x 210 mm). Woodcut architectural title, with title cut on the block and the portrait and coat of arms of the translator in the border, woodcut portrait of the printer on A2r, 81 woodcut illustrations in the text (including two repetitions). (Title-page lightly soiled, some intermittent browning and a few pale stains.) Modern vellum, leather clasps. Provenance: W. Gedney Beatty (1869-1941), American architect (gifted to): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Department of Prints (bookplate recording the bequest, cancelled). FIRST EDITION OF CAPORALI'S TRANSLATION, comprising the first five of the ten books of Vitruvius. The woodcuts are free copies (reduced or enlarged) of the Cesariano's Como, 1521 edition, with 8 subjects added. The woodcuts of the Milan cathedral were not copied. The artist Caporali was a follower of Perugino, and undertook a number of ecclesiastical commissions for frescos in Rome and Perugia, in addition to architectural commissions (including a villa near Cortona, "Il Palazzone," for Cardinal Silvio Passerini), and he also trained the architect Galeazzo Alessi. Caporali's translation was printed at Bigazzini's private press in Perugia with the collaboration of Caporali himself, Vittorio Muzio, the typesetter, and Jean de Né, the typographer; it is the only work known to have been printed by Bigazzini. Berlin Kat. 1805; Brunet V:1330; Cicognara 706; Fowler 400; Harvard/Mortimer Italian 546; Millard Italian 159.
Christie's
Dec. 03, 2007
VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus. Architettura. Vetruvio in volgar lingua. Translated by Giovanni Battista Caporali (ca 1475-1555). Perugia: Giano Bigazzini, 1536.
Est: $3,000 - $4,000
VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus. Architettura. Vetruvio in volgar lingua. Translated by Giovanni Battista Caporali (ca 1475-1555). Perugia: Giano Bigazzini, 1536. 2o (285 x 204 mm). Woodcut architectural title, with title cut on the block and the portrait and coat of arms of the translator in the border, woodcut portrait of the printer on A2r, 81 woodcut illustrations in the text (including two repetions). (Some light browning and staining, a few marginal repairs, M7 with short marginal tear). Late 19th-century quarter sheep (backstrip detached, head of spine chipped). Provenance: Jean Maisonneuve & Fils Libraires (ink stamp). First edition of Caporali's translation, comprising the first five of the ten books of Vitruvius. The woodcuts are free copies (reduced or enlarged) of the Cesariano's Como, 1521 edition (see lot 347), with 8 subjects added. The woodcuts of the Milan cathedral were not copied. The artist Caporali was a follower of Perugino, and undertook a number of ecclesiastical commissions for frescos in Rome and Perugia, in addition to architectural commissions (including a villa near Cortona, "Il Palazzone," for Cardinal Silvio Passerini), and he also trained the architect Galeazzo Alessi. Caporali's translation was printed at Bigazzini's private press in Perugia with the collaboration of Caporali himself, Vittorio Muzio, the typesetter, and Jean de Né, the typographer; it is the only work known to have been printed by Bigazzini. Berlin Kat. 1805; Brunet V:1330; Cicognara 706; Fowler 400; Harvard/Mortimer Italian 546; Millard Italian 159.
Christie's
Jun. 06, 2007
VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus (70-23 BC). Architettura , translated by Giovanni Battista Caporali (1475-c. 1555). Perugia: Conte Giano Bigazzini, 1 April 1536.
Est: £2,800 - £3,500
VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus (70-23 BC). Architettura , translated by Giovanni Battista Caporali (1475-c. 1555). Perugia: Conte Giano Bigazzini, 1 April 1536. 2° (282 x 200mm). Roman and Greek types. Woodcut architectural title-page with the portrait and arms of Caporali in the border, woodcut portrait of Bigazzini (the dedicatee) on dedication. 81 woodcut illustrations, 7 full-page, one large woodcut initial with a perspective architectural view, other woodcut initials from 2 sets. (Some light spotting, marking, and browning, occasional small damp-marks, a few leaves trimmed touching headline, title trimmed and remargined at head, unobtrusive worming in quire A, skillfully repaired on title, small paper-flaws on H1, L8, N2, and P4-5, skillfully reinforced on L8, and P4-5.) 20th-century semi-flexible vellum, spine titled in manuscript (a few light marks). Provenance : early, partially-erased inscriptions on title -- traces of bookplate on A1v margin -- [?]Bonaventura Vittorio (marginal inscription on A3r) -- occasional marginal annotations and underlinings in an early Italian hand. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF CAPORALI'S TRANSLATION OF VITRUVIUS, the second translation of Vitruvius into Italian, and the fourth edition of Vitruvius in Italian. The text and illustrations of Caporali's translation of the first five books follow the structure of the first edition of Cesare Cesariano's translation published in Como in 1521 (the first translation of Vitruvius into both Italian and a living language). The artist Caporali was a follower of Perugino, and undertook a number of ecclesiastical commissions for frescos in Rome and Perugia, in addition to architectural commissions (including a villa near Cortona, 'Il Palazzone', for Cardinal Silvio Passerini), and he also trained the architect Galeazzo Alessi. Caporali's translation was printed at Bigazzini's private press in Perugia with the collaboration of Caporali himself, Vittorio Muzio, the typesetter, and Jean de Né, the typographer; it is the only work known to have been printed by Bigazzini. Cicognara 706; Brunet V, 1330; Harvard Italian 546; Sander 7700.
Christie's
Jun. 06, 2007
VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus (70-23BC). Architettura , translated by Giovanni Battista Caporali (1475-c. 1555). Perugia: Conte Giano Bigazzini, 1 April 1536.
Est: £2,000 - £3,000
VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus (70-23BC). Architettura , translated by Giovanni Battista Caporali (1475-c. 1555). Perugia: Conte Giano Bigazzini, 1 April 1536. 2° (286 x 205mm). Roman and Greek types. Woodcut architectural title-page incorporating the portrait and coat of arms of Caporali in the border, woodcut portrait of Bigazzini (the dedicatee) on dedication. 81 woodcuts, 7 full-page. One large woodcut initial with a perspective architectural view, other woodcut initials from 2 sets. (Variable, generally light browning and spotting, occasional light marking, some very light staining, title marked and with small worm-hole, repaired on margin, tipped-in and possibly supplied, R1-2 with neatly-repaired tears, R2 tipped-in.) 19th-/early 20th-century colour-printed paper over semi-flexible cloth covers (lightly rubbed at extremities). Provenance : Antonii Toulli (inscription on title) -- Fran[-] Cattelliani (inscription on title) -- purchase note dated June 1615 and additional pen-strokes to portrait and text on title. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF CAPORALI'S TRANSLATION OF VITRUVIUS, the second translation of Vitruvius into Italian, and the fourth edition of Vitruvius in Italian. The text and illustrations of Caporali's translation of the first five books follow the structure of the first edition of Cesare Cesariano's translation published in Como in 1521 (the first translation of Vitruvius into both Italian and a living language). The artist Caporali was a follower of Perugino, and undertook a number of ecclesiastical commissions for frescos in Rome and Perugia, in addition to architectural commissions (including a villa near Cortona, 'Il Palazzone', for Cardinal Silvio Passerini), and he also trained the architect Galeazzo Alessi. Caporali's translation was printed at Bigazzini's private press in Perugia with the collaboration of Caporali himself, Vittorio Muzio, the typesetter, and Jean de Né, the typographer; it the only work known to have been printed by Bigazzini. Cicognara 706; Brunet V, 1330; Harvard Italian 546; Sander 7700.
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