Bindings, French, Early 17th-Century -- Perpinian (Pedro Juan): Orationes Duodeviginti, editio nova. Orationes Quinque, Lyon, Hugonis à Porta, Sumptibus Io. de Gabiano & S. Girard, 1603, 12mo (some light dampstaining), contemporary dark red morocco, sides richly tooled in gilt in fanfare style with floral ovals surrounding the coat-of-arms of Nicolas de Villars, the friend of Magaret of Navarre, flat gilt spine with repeated floral motifs (minor restoration of spine and corners), g.e. [Palau 223612; De Backer-Sommervogel VI, 550] -- Valerius Maximus. Dictorum Factorumque Memorabilium libri IX, Lyon, sumptibus Petri Rigaud, 1613, 12mo, early full red morocco, with elbaorate gilt-tooled borders enclosing the names and arms of Alphonsus Pallavicinus on the front and Vicentius Costaguta on the back cover, flat gilt spine (joints and corners rubbed, ties lacking). [Schweiger II, 1110 lists this edition as 1615] (2)
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Bindings, French, Early 17th-Century -- Perpinian (Pedro Juan): Orationes Duodeviginti, editio nova. Orationes Quinque, Lyon, Hugonis à Porta, Sumptibus Io. de Gabiano & S. Girard, 1603, 12mo (some light dampstaining), contemporary dark red morocco, sides richly tooled in gilt in fanfare style with floral ovals surrounding the coat-of-arms of Nicolas de Villars, the friend of Magaret of Navarre, flat gilt spine with repeated floral motifs (minor restoration of spine and corners), g.e. [Palau 223612; De Backer-Sommervogel VI, 550] -- Valerius Maximus. Dictorum Factorumque Memorabilium libri IX, Lyon, sumptibus Petri Rigaud, 1613, 12mo, early full red morocco, with elbaorate gilt-tooled borders enclosing the names and arms of Alphonsus Pallavicinus on the front and Vicentius Costaguta on the back cover, flat gilt spine (joints and corners rubbed, ties lacking). [Schweiger II, 1110 lists this edition as 1615] (2)
Lot Essay
The first binding is attributed to the workshop of Clovis Eve (see Hobson, Les Reliures à Fanfare, 298a, 305).