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SPIRITO, Lorenzo (ca 1425-1496). Le passetemps de la fortune des dez Ingenieusement côpille par maître Laurent lesperit pour réponses de vingt questions par plusieurs coustumierement faites, & desirees sçavoir. Lyon: François Didier, 1576.
4o (203 x 156 mm). Title within wide ornamental border, full-page wood-engraved figure of Fortuna within an ornamental border, 20 wood-engraved medallions representing the kings of France from Clovis to Childebert; a section containing 20 fields of dice cut with white dots on a black ground, each surrounding a central floral block; a section containing 20 wheels of fortune in lovely woodcut ornamental borders mixing satyrs, fantastic animals and grotesques; the final section is printed in two columns with small cuts of the twenty prophets (some repeated). (Small marginal repair on G1.) 18th-century calf gilt, edges gilt. Provenance: E.W. Sergrant (signature); E. Hartwright (signature); Sir Thomas Brooke (1830-1908), bibliophile who owned a large and distinguished library, especially notable for the group of 170 fore-edge paintings and decorated vellum covers painted by Cesare Vecellio on books from the celebrated Pillone Library (bookplate); acquired from Pierre Berès, 1966.
A VERY RARE FRENCH EDITION OF THIS BOOK ON FORTUNE-TELLING, first published in 1482 under the title Libri delle sorti,this popular book was reprinted many times during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Brunet V, 495; Brown, p. 296; see Mortimer French, 501 (1574 Paris edition).
4o (203 x 156 mm). Title within wide ornamental border, full-page wood-engraved figure of Fortuna within an ornamental border, 20 wood-engraved medallions representing the kings of France from Clovis to Childebert; a section containing 20 fields of dice cut with white dots on a black ground, each surrounding a central floral block; a section containing 20 wheels of fortune in lovely woodcut ornamental borders mixing satyrs, fantastic animals and grotesques; the final section is printed in two columns with small cuts of the twenty prophets (some repeated). (Small marginal repair on G1.) 18th-century calf gilt, edges gilt. Provenance: E.W. Sergrant (signature); E. Hartwright (signature); Sir Thomas Brooke (1830-1908), bibliophile who owned a large and distinguished library, especially notable for the group of 170 fore-edge paintings and decorated vellum covers painted by Cesare Vecellio on books from the celebrated Pillone Library (bookplate); acquired from Pierre Berès, 1966.
A VERY RARE FRENCH EDITION OF THIS BOOK ON FORTUNE-TELLING, first published in 1482 under the title Libri delle sorti,this popular book was reprinted many times during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Brunet V, 495; Brown, p. 296; see Mortimer French, 501 (1574 Paris edition).