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DE BRY, Johann Theodor and J. I. DE BRY Nova Alphati Effictio histories ad singulas literas correspondentibus, et toreumate Bryanaeo artificiose in aes incises illustrate. Engraved title-page, 24 elaborately engraved plates of letters, all with...
Estimation :
800 / 1000
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2 485 €
Description
grotesque Mannerist ornamentation. 4to., (2440x170 mm); veau à la DuSeuil, dos à nerfs. [Loiselier] Titre gravé et 24 planches de lettres gravées.
Première édition de ce célèbre alphabet Renaissance «Elles représentent un grand Alphabet majuscule dont les lettres sont formées par découpures mouvementées ornées de figures de trophées, d'oiseaux, de fleurs et de fruits» (Guilmard, Les Maîtres Ornemanistes, p. 368).
Les planches sont remontées.. Reliure frottée aux mors et nerfs.
TThe rarity of this first edition is attested by the recent facsimile of it (Ravensburg, 1997). No copies sold at auction as listed by ABPC; OCLC lists 7 copies in America (at Houghton, Morgan Library, NYPL, Walters Art Gallery, RISD, Newberry and the University of Virginia). There are also 7 copies listed in European institutions. This copy had the engravings cut out and mounted during the nineteenth century on large papier Hollande in a folio format. However, the size of the cut-out sheets (195 x 150 mm) remains fully intact; the folio sheets measure 325 x 212 mm.
Some insignificant spots to interleaved sheets, binding with minor rubbing to extremities. Berlin Katalog 5281. Guimard, Les Maîtres Ornemanistes, p. 368, No. 38. Bonacini 292 (“estremamente rara”). Brunet I, 1309. BMC German 161. See: Becker, The Practice of Letters, The Hofer Collection of Writing Manuals, 1514-1800, for the 1596 German edition of Alphabeten. Bookseller Inventory #148318
Première édition de ce célèbre alphabet Renaissance «Elles représentent un grand Alphabet majuscule dont les lettres sont formées par découpures mouvementées ornées de figures de trophées, d'oiseaux, de fleurs et de fruits» (Guilmard, Les Maîtres Ornemanistes, p. 368).
Les planches sont remontées.. Reliure frottée aux mors et nerfs.
TThe rarity of this first edition is attested by the recent facsimile of it (Ravensburg, 1997). No copies sold at auction as listed by ABPC; OCLC lists 7 copies in America (at Houghton, Morgan Library, NYPL, Walters Art Gallery, RISD, Newberry and the University of Virginia). There are also 7 copies listed in European institutions. This copy had the engravings cut out and mounted during the nineteenth century on large papier Hollande in a folio format. However, the size of the cut-out sheets (195 x 150 mm) remains fully intact; the folio sheets measure 325 x 212 mm.
Some insignificant spots to interleaved sheets, binding with minor rubbing to extremities. Berlin Katalog 5281. Guimard, Les Maîtres Ornemanistes, p. 368, No. 38. Bonacini 292 (“estremamente rara”). Brunet I, 1309. BMC German 161. See: Becker, The Practice of Letters, The Hofer Collection of Writing Manuals, 1514-1800, for the 1596 German edition of Alphabeten. Bookseller Inventory #148318
