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Bellori, 1685; Ménestrier, 1688
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Bound for James II & VII
Bellori, 1685; Ménestrier, 1688
BELLORI, Giovanni Pietro (1613–1696). Veterum Illustrium Philosophorum Poetarum Rhetorum. Rome: Jacob de Rossi, 1685. [With:] . MÉNESTRIER, Claude-François (1631–1705). Symbolica Dianae Ephesiae statua [...] exposita [...] Cui accessere Lucae Holstenij epistola [...] de fulcris, seu verubus Dianae [...] Io. Petri Bellorij notae in numismata [...]. Rome: Jacob de Rossi, 1688.
Bound for King James II during his final exile in France. The exiled Stuart family remained at Saint Germain-en-Laye until 1713 when they were obliged by the Treaty of Utrecht to move to Bar-le-Duc in the Duchy of Lorraine. Many of their possessions, including much of James II's library, were given to the Scots College in Paris, where the brain of James II was interred. Cicognara 2765.
Two works in one, folio (333 × 219mm). I: Engraved frontispiece, three part titles and 92 plates (); II: Half-title, 24 engraved plates (first four leaves rather browned, light dampstains in upper margins). Contemporary red ?goatskin tooled in gold, triple fillet round sides, fleuron corner-piece dividing the outer from the inner two fillets, at center the arms of James II, gold-tooled turn-ins, edges gilt over marbling (split at head of upper hinge); red levant morocco case. Provenance: James II & VII, King of England, Ireland and Scotland (supralibros) – Andrew Lumisden (bookplate) – Mortimer L. Schiff (label; his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 5 July 1938, lot 615) – William Foyle (Beeleigh Abbey label; his sale, Christie’s, New York, 11–13 July 2000, lot 404).
Bellori, 1685; Ménestrier, 1688
BELLORI, Giovanni Pietro (1613–1696). Veterum Illustrium Philosophorum Poetarum Rhetorum. Rome: Jacob de Rossi, 1685. [With:] . MÉNESTRIER, Claude-François (1631–1705). Symbolica Dianae Ephesiae statua [...] exposita [...] Cui accessere Lucae Holstenij epistola [...] de fulcris, seu verubus Dianae [...] Io. Petri Bellorij notae in numismata [...]. Rome: Jacob de Rossi, 1688.
Bound for King James II during his final exile in France. The exiled Stuart family remained at Saint Germain-en-Laye until 1713 when they were obliged by the Treaty of Utrecht to move to Bar-le-Duc in the Duchy of Lorraine. Many of their possessions, including much of James II's library, were given to the Scots College in Paris, where the brain of James II was interred. Cicognara 2765.
Two works in one, folio (333 × 219mm). I: Engraved frontispiece, three part titles and 92 plates (); II: Half-title, 24 engraved plates (first four leaves rather browned, light dampstains in upper margins). Contemporary red ?goatskin tooled in gold, triple fillet round sides, fleuron corner-piece dividing the outer from the inner two fillets, at center the arms of James II, gold-tooled turn-ins, edges gilt over marbling (split at head of upper hinge); red levant morocco case. Provenance: James II & VII, King of England, Ireland and Scotland (supralibros) – Andrew Lumisden (bookplate) – Mortimer L. Schiff (label; his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 5 July 1938, lot 615) – William Foyle (Beeleigh Abbey label; his sale, Christie’s, New York, 11–13 July 2000, lot 404).
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