![ROUILLÉ, Guillaume (1518?-1589). La première[-seconde] partie du Promptuaire des médalles des plus renommées personnes qui ont esté depuis le commencement du monde, translated by Charles Fontaine. Lyon: Guillaume Rouillé, 1553.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2015/CKS/2015_CKS_10456_0056_000(rouille_guillaume_la_premiere-seconde_partie_du_promptuaire_des_medall112457).jpg?w=1)
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ROUILLÉ, Guillaume (1518?-1589). La première[-seconde] partie du Promptuaire des médalles des plus renommées personnes qui ont esté depuis le commencement du monde, translated by Charles Fontaine. Lyons: Guillaume Rouillé, 1553.
2 volumes in one, 4° (216 x 155mm). Title with Rouillé’s device and cartouche at head, the cartouche repeated at end of part one, vol. II with emblematic woodcut medallion on title and nativity scene on aa2r. 828 woodcut medallion portraits, some reputedly by Georges Reverdy, usually two but sometimes also three to a page. (Title and preliminaries lightly dust-soiled, title with erasure causing small hole through two letters of the privilege on verso, dd6v-dd7r of vol. II soiled, dd2v-dd3r more lightly so, a few ink spots, vol. II without final blank qq8.) 18th-century polished calf, covers with single fillet and wavy gilt border, ornate spine panels, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges (joints cracked). Provenance: Earls of Derby (bookplate, ‘Knowsley Library’ inscription and shelfmark) – G.R. Airth (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION OF THE FRENCH TRANSLATION. ROUILLÉ’S PROMPTUAIRE IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT NUMISMATIC BOOKS OF THE 16TH CENTURY.
This translation is ascribed to the Parisian poet Charles Fontaine, though he, in his Ruisseaux, appears to claim the book as his own original work. It is dedicated to Marguerite de France (whose portrait in part 2 is of exceptional quality). The splendid series of portraits are the work of several renowned artists including Corneille de Lyon. The blocks were cut by Georges Reverdy.
Adams P-2163; Baudrier IX, p. 361; Mortimer, Harvard French 465.
2 volumes in one, 4° (216 x 155mm). Title with Rouillé’s device and cartouche at head, the cartouche repeated at end of part one, vol. II with emblematic woodcut medallion on title and nativity scene on aa2r. 828 woodcut medallion portraits, some reputedly by Georges Reverdy, usually two but sometimes also three to a page. (Title and preliminaries lightly dust-soiled, title with erasure causing small hole through two letters of the privilege on verso, dd6v-dd7r of vol. II soiled, dd2v-dd3r more lightly so, a few ink spots, vol. II without final blank qq8.) 18th-century polished calf, covers with single fillet and wavy gilt border, ornate spine panels, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges (joints cracked). Provenance: Earls of Derby (bookplate, ‘Knowsley Library’ inscription and shelfmark) – G.R. Airth (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION OF THE FRENCH TRANSLATION. ROUILLÉ’S PROMPTUAIRE IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT NUMISMATIC BOOKS OF THE 16TH CENTURY.
This translation is ascribed to the Parisian poet Charles Fontaine, though he, in his Ruisseaux, appears to claim the book as his own original work. It is dedicated to Marguerite de France (whose portrait in part 2 is of exceptional quality). The splendid series of portraits are the work of several renowned artists including Corneille de Lyon. The blocks were cut by Georges Reverdy.
Adams P-2163; Baudrier IX, p. 361; Mortimer, Harvard French 465.
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