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CURTIUS RUFUS. De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni. Lyon: Antoine Gryphius, 1582.
16° (114 x 73mm). Printed in small italics, woodcut printer's device on title, (some waterstaining). ROMAN BINDING BY SORESINO FOR FEDERICO GENTILE, contemporary red morocco profusely gilt, outer frame formed by two double fillets, between them in upper and lower panels Gentile's name in capitals, in the side panels an arabesque tool and stars, in centre compartment Gentile's arms, a lion rampant, surrounded by four winged mermaids, leafy volutes, a tool of a crowned head and small roundels containing quarterfoils, spine with three raised bands in compartments with (apparently later) floral and leafy tooling, edges gilt and gauffered, traces of leather ties, (joints very skilfully restored). Provenance: Federico Gentile, his family came from Barletta, near Bari; unidentified 17th-century stamp on title; Jean Furstenberg, with his bookplate and label "Exposé au Musée d'Art Genève Mai 1966".
An early binding from the workshop of Prospero and Francesco Soresini, which a little later became the foremost Roman atelier of the period. Cf. Legature Romana Barocca 1565-1700, Rome, Palazzo Braschi, 1991, plate 1.
16° (114 x 73mm). Printed in small italics, woodcut printer's device on title, (some waterstaining). ROMAN BINDING BY SORESINO FOR FEDERICO GENTILE, contemporary red morocco profusely gilt, outer frame formed by two double fillets, between them in upper and lower panels Gentile's name in capitals, in the side panels an arabesque tool and stars, in centre compartment Gentile's arms, a lion rampant, surrounded by four winged mermaids, leafy volutes, a tool of a crowned head and small roundels containing quarterfoils, spine with three raised bands in compartments with (apparently later) floral and leafy tooling, edges gilt and gauffered, traces of leather ties, (joints very skilfully restored). Provenance: Federico Gentile, his family came from Barletta, near Bari; unidentified 17th-century stamp on title; Jean Furstenberg, with his bookplate and label "Exposé au Musée d'Art Genève Mai 1966".
An early binding from the workshop of Prospero and Francesco Soresini, which a little later became the foremost Roman atelier of the period. Cf. Legature Romana Barocca 1565-1700, Rome, Palazzo Braschi, 1991, plate 1.