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Tory (1480-1533), French humanist, printer and engraver, best known for adding accents
on French letters and for writing the "Champfleury" published in 1529 on the use of French
language. Text decorated with large dotted initials and with pages or some parts in Greek.
Mark of Estienne on the title-page.
# Renouard, Estienne, 75 n° 22; # Adams B-37; # Soltész B-12; # STC French 39; # Berlin
Katalog 885; # USTC 150155; # Bernard, Aug.- Geofroy Tory [...]. 2
e
éd. P., Tross, 1865,
p. 72; # Biogr. univ. II-623; # Index Aurel. n° 111.653; # BN Cat. (2 copies); # BLC (in 2 vol.);
# not in Mortimer French, Machiels, Matagne, Colas (other ed.), Lipperheide (id.).
▲ Provenance : R. Spence (ex-libris).
¶ Compilation des principales oeuvres du diplomate de Baïf portant sur l'architecture navale, l'art de se
vêtir et sur les vases. Chaque partie est ornée respectivement de 21, 3 et 7 in texto par Geoffroy Tory.
La dernière partie, non illustrée et attribuée à Antonio Telesio, est la première monographie sur les
couleurs. Relié en plein maroquin rouge par H. Wood (ex. lég. bruni, bonne condition).
310 – (Belgique, Droit) -
Statuta consistorialia et reformatio iudiciorum
spiritualium civitatis, patriae seu Ditionis et dioecesis Leodiensis [...].
Leodii, apud Henricum Hovium, typis Gualteri Morberii, 1582.
In-4° : [4]-79, [4] lvs (foxing, browned).
18
th
Century binding : calf, gilt stamped ribbed spine with red label (strongly rubbed, small loss of leather on
upper board, corners dulled, upper joint partly split, gilt decoration faded).
Est.
:
200/ 250 €
Rare first edition
of this collection of ordinances and statutes of the diocese of Liège
announced by the Prince-Bishop Ernest of Bavaria (1554-1612), elected in 1581. Includes
regulations on excommunication, imprisoning, oathing by lawyers, admission charges
for notaries, etc. Illustrated by the coat-of-arms of Bavaria on the title. Interleaved copy
containing contemporary handwritten annotations.
# de Theux 16; # not in Adams, Camus, Dekkers, Machiels, Soltész, USTC.
Bound with
: Georgius-Ludovicus, Dei gratia [...]. (Leodii, è typographia S.C., apud Viduam
Procureur), [1735], [7] pp. Ordinance emitted by the Prince-Bishop of Liège, Georges-Louis
de Berghes (1662-1743), including a.o. regulations on the responsabilities of lawyers; # de
Theux 514.
¶ Édition originale d'ordonnances et statuts du diocèse de Liège, illustrée des armoiries de la Bavière.
Ex. interfolié. Relié avec une ordonnance de Georges-Louis de Berghes, 1735. Plein veau du 18e s.
(rouss., ff. brunis, rel. fort. frottée avec pet. perte de cuir).
311 – (Belgique) -
GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico.- Descrittione di tutti i Paesi Bassi,
altrimenti detti Germania inferiore [...].
Anversa, apresso Guglielmo Silvio, 1567.
In-f° : [20]-296 [i.e. 339]-[20] pp.; 1 pl. (numerous foxing, marginal dampstains, marginal wormholes in the
beginning, some pp. slightly yellowed or browned, some stains).
17
th
Century binding : red morrocco, boards encircled with gilt and blind decorated fillets, gilt angular fleurons
and a medallion in the center, gilt decorated ribbed spine, gilt gauffered edges (spine, joints, edges and corners
restored, small wears, flyleaves renewed, handwritten note on the upper pastedown). Under modern case.
Est.
:
2.000/ 2.500 €
First edition
(a French edition was published the same year) of this important chorographic
essay by Guicciardini (1521-1589), a Florentine merchant who lived in Antwerp. The title,
coat-of-arms and portrait of Philipp II are contained in a wood-engraved portico decorated
with six allegories. Illustrated with 17 double plates : a copper-engraved general map of
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