has no share in the feudal antiquity of the "premier Marquis de France." The book belonged in 1615 to A. Chalom Sieur de Gontez, who has written some of his own verses on the blank spaces, VII. FRENCH BINDERS, AND BINDINGS without indication of ownership. SEC. XVI-XIX Parls and Lyons Bindings (1530-80): 13164 THEOCRITI Ecloga . . . Genus Theocriti . . . Catonis sententiæ... Theognidis sententiæ... Aurea Carmina Pythagora . . . Hesiodi Theogonia, Scutum Herculis, Georgica . . . Græce, folio, in a stamped binding of the early part of the sixteenth century, ornamented with roses, arabesques, medallions, fleurs-de-lis, and bearing on a shield in the arabesque border the initials PR several times repeated, £10. 10s Venetiis, Aldus Manucius, 1493 This rare volume is of the first Aldine issue according to the marks indicated by Brunet. The binding was perhaps done for an Englishman, as has been suggested on accoout of the roses and lilies in compartments on the stamped binding which are usually considered to refer to Henry VIII's ownership. However that may be, the initials are apparently those of the binder-bookseller Pierre Roffet, in whose house in Paris bookbinding and bookselling were exercised in combination. 13165 TUNSTAL. De Arte Supputandi libri quatuor, Cutheberti Tonstalli, sm. 4to. old calf, with medallion heads of Mars and Lucretia stamped in gold on sides, from the Sunderland library, £2. Parisiis, Rob. Stephanus, 1538 Bands on the back with golden roses in the panels, the classical medallions on the sides with simple gold ornaments at the four angles, make this an interesting specimen of Parisian binding in 1540-especially when it is remembered that Benvenuto Cellini (whom the medallions involuntarily remind us of) was in Paris in 1540-44. 13166 VALERII FLACCI Argonautica; Io. Bapt. Pii carmen ex quarto Argonauticon Apollonii, etc. 12mo. ruled with red lines, in the original calf gilt, with centre ornaments and the name "S. RUBISCHIUS," and date, 1549, in gold on sides; gilt and gaufred edges, from the Sunderland library, £4. Lugd. ap. Seb. Gryphium, 1548 A very pretty specimen of Lyonnese work. The compartments between the gold lines on the sides are painted black. 13167 COLUMELLA, LES DOVZE LIVRES DES CHOSES RUSTICQUES. Traduicts de Latin en Francoys, par feu maistre Claude Cotereau. sm. 4to. ruled throughout with red lines, very fine and large copy in the original calf, the back a little damaged, the sides covered with a fine Grolieresque pattern of interlacements, filled in with arabesque ornaments à fers azurés, gilt edges, £21. Paris, Jacques, Kerver, 1551 Although the binding has deteriorated somewhat since the book passed through the libraries of Ballesdens and Colbert, it is still a noble example of the best French style. It was done in Paris about the year 1560. This is the first edition of the book, PARIS AND LYONS BINDINGS-continued. 13168 TACITI (P. Cornelii) Annales (item de moribus Germaniæ, de Oratoribus, et Agricola vita; omnia recognita ab Emilio Ferretto), 12mo. old calf, ornamented with Grolieresque tooling in gold, £2. 16s Lugd. Seb. Gryphius, 1551 13169 WOTTONI (Edoardi) de Differentiis Animalium libri decem, folio, fine copy in the original calf, gilt ornaments on the sides and back, 25s Lutetiae Paris. 1552 Born in 1492, deceased 1555. Edward Wotton, who had been Henry VIII's personal physician, is not to be confounded with his contemporary and namesake Sir Edward Wotton, the father of the English Grolier. John Mason, the English ambassador to France, took Wotton's manuscript with him and had the book printed in Paris. 13170 JUSTINIANUS. Institutiones Juris Justiniani a D. Sylvest, Aldobrandino annotationibus illustrata, etc. sm, 8vo. in the original Lyonnese calf binding decorated with an interlaced pattern in gold, rebacked, £5. Lugduni, 1553 This was a fine specimen, combining the geometrical interlacement, painted compartments, and fers azures of Grolier, with the gold-dotted surfaces of Henri II. The corners are mended and the back is new, but the renovation has been ably done, and we have still the old sides with their admirable Grolieresque ornament. It is a piece of the best Lyons work, 13171 BIBLIA. R. Stephanus Lectori. En tibi Bibliorum vulgata editio;.. sm. 8vo. in the original calf binding, slightly damaged, gilt ornaments on back and sides, £5. [Parisiis] Oliva Roberti Stephani, 1555 First edition of the Bible in which the verses are distinguished by paragraph-marks and by numbers, in exact conformity with the modern system. 13172 ERASMI Apophthegmatum ex optimis utriusque linguæ scriptoribus, lib. viii, small 8vo. fine copy in the original calf with date on sides, the edges beautifully gilt and gauffred, £2. Lugd. J. Tornasius, 1558 On the upper side, stamped in gold, we find the date of the binding and the initials of the owner, "A. B. G. D." The binding is no doubt Lyonnese, although the sides have but little ornament. The gauffred edges bear a geometrical pattern. 13173 HOMERI ILIAS, ULYSSEA, BATRACHOMYOMACHIA, HYMNI (cum Vita Homeri ex Herodoto, Dione, et Plutarcho), Græcè, 2 vols. sm, 8vo. FIRST ALDINE EDITION, PRINTED UPON VELLUM, in an exquisite olive morocco binding by one of the artists who worked for Henri II, Diane, and Catherine, gilt edges, the sides and back ornamented with a beautiful pattern of scroll-work decoration, à fers azurés, from the Sunderland library, in red morocco cases, £650. (Venet. Aldus, 1504) Here we have the rare combination of a book in every way valuable, with a binding of the most precious character. The PARIS AND LYONS BINDINGS-continued. owner of the first Aldine Homer on vellum can put himself on a level as a collector with Lord Spencer and the Duke of Devonshire; but it is not likely that any of the four copies described by Renouard (Royal Library B. M., Pius VI, Althorpe, Chatsworth) can vie with the Sunderland copy in its exterior. This is probably one of the last grand works executed by the great artists who disappeared from the capital of France when the Huguenot persecutions began which culminated at St. Bartholomew. It was executed about 1560-65. 13174 CICERONIS Opera, ex castigatione Joannis Boulierii, 9 vols. 24mo. old calf, with elaborate gilt ornamentation, on a geometrical pattern, and resembling the architectonic decoration of Italian bindings at the same period, £5. Lugd. ap. Ant. Vincentium, 1560 This is a striking specimen of the ornamental Lyonnese binding of the period; the sides are in good condition. but most of the backs are damaged at bottom and top. 13175 CYRILLI Hierosolymorum Archiepiscopi CATECHESES, Græce, small 8vo. beautiful copy in the original smooth morocco, gilt edges, the sides and back covered with scroll-work in gilt and painted compartments in the Grolier style, a most exquisite and charming specimen of the French work of the time, in marvellously fresh and healthy condition; in a morocco case, £50. Parisiis, 1564 The title-page bears an inscription "Ex libris Seb. Epi. Lingonens." which shows that the book was, about 1630, in the possession of Sebastian Zamet, Bishop of Langres. There are few examples of binding in the present catalogue which exhibit so perfect a combination of excellence in artistic design, rich harmony of colours, and delicacy of finish in the work, as this little volume. 13176 GAGUIN (Maistre Robert) LES GRANDES CRONIQUES: excellens faitz et vertueux gestes: des tresillustres treschrestiens magnanimes et victorieux Roys de France. . . en lan Christifere mil cinq cens et quatorze songneusement reduictes et translatees . . . en nostre vulgaire francoys . . . ensemble aussi plusieurs additiōs . . . folio, lettres gothiques, Printed on Vellum, with the woodcuts elaborately coloured and illuminated in the style of original miniatures, a beautiful copy, ruled throughout with red ink, in a sixteenth-century binding (repaired), calf, stamped PARIS AND LYONS BINDINGS-continued. with bold gilt ornaments on the sides and back, gilt A lovely book, worthy to be enshrined in a king's library. The binding was done in Paris about 1570. It is in the Lyonnese style, of mixed geometrical and arabesque pattern, with fond d'azur. On the first page of the book, the arms of the original owner are painted, with his device, and two lions for supporters. However, the distinctive emblems are effaced, and we can only see that the shield was gueules. The first word of the motto is also defective, and we can only read the remaining two, which are dargent silla. 13177 [L'HOPITAL] De Sacra Francisci II Galliarum regis initiatione Mich. Hosp. sermo;-De Meti urbe capta, etc. M. H. carmen ;In Francisci Delphini et Mariæ Scotorum Reginæ nuptias M. H. carmen;-ad Margaritam Regis sororem M. H. epistola ;Turnebi ad Hospitalem epistola, 1560-Bellaii (Ioach.) Poemata, 1558-In Joachimum Bellaium carmina, 1560-Lambini in Turnebi obitum nænia, 1565-Turnebi Tumulus, 1565-Passeratii in Turnebi obitum elegia, 1565-Epistola quæ exponit obitum Turnebi, 1565-Roilleti in Turnebi morbum prosopopoia, 1565-Chytræus de immaturo Turnebi obitu, 1565-Morisotus de immaturo Turnebi obitu, 1565-Ripautii de Turnebi morte dialogismus (1565)-Le Picard (F.) de obitu Turnebi nænia (1565)—P. (R.) in quosdam ineptos versificatores (1565)—all fine and large copies in 1 vol. sm. 4to. in the contemporary French calf, with a gilt azuré ornament on the sides, in the style of the Lyonnese bindings of the time, £25. Paris. 1558-65 All rare; some of them to an extreme degree. Most of the collections relating to Mary Queen of Scots lack the small poem written on the subject of her first marriage by the learned Chancelier Michel de l'Hopital. 13178 VIRGILIUS. Opera Vergiliana cum decem comētis docte & familiariter exposita, etc. folio, numerous striking woodcuts, some leaves stained, old calf, from the Sunderland library, £2. 16s Lugduni, Jac. Mareschal Roland, 1527 (1528 on title) With a lettering on the back in gold within gold lines, and with a wreathornament of branching foliage on the sides. The binding was done about 1580. Nicolas Eve, Clovis Eve, Robert Eve (1570-1620) : 13179 MISSALE ROMANUM ex decreto sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum, Pii V. Pont. Max. jussu editum, square small folio, printed in red and black, with large woodcut of the Crucifixion and woodcut initials, one of the initials cut out; in the original magnificent binding of smooth brown morocco, gilt edges, the sides and back covered with geometrical or architectonic patterns in the Eve style, with mosaic compartments in green, red, and silver, the spaces filled NICOLAS EVE, CLOVIS EVE, ROBERT EVE-continued. in with enwreathing gold lines which terminate in A glorious example of the new French school which came into Vogue about 1570-80. It resembles the finest of the early De Thou bindings—that is, of those which are seldom seen, and which differ so much in their splendour of ornamentation from the books that are usually found bearing his arms. In the central compartments, the indications of ownership were painted originally, but they have been carefully effaced. We can still discern, however, the initials C. G. on the upper cover, and the figure of a tree (as an armorial bearing) on the lower one. The woodcut initials are very elegant, but deal with nudities rather more freely than the book's character would warrant. 13180 BOCCACCIO. Il Decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaci . . . riscontrato in Firenze con testi antichi & alla sua vera lezione ridotto da' Deputati . . . sm. 4to. limp olive morocco with flat back, a fleur de lis stamped in each compartment on the back, and a spray of foliage as centre-ornament on the sides, edges gilt, £5 5s Fiorenza, 1573 Bound probably in Paris, soon after the time of publication, for one of the followers of Catharine dei Medici. The limp binding is unusual, and the spray of foliage on the sides, although stiff and hard in its regularity, is evidently the original motif of the branch ornamentation used by the Eves. It would seem as though the volume belonged to Philippe de Mornay in 1576 (that is the year of his marriage with Charlotte d'Arbaleste). On a blank page at the end there are sketched in ink several essays of monograms for the letters CC, and below them there is the which he used himself.— See La Reliure of Gustave Brunet, a plate in which exhibits the CC. p, and s fermé exactly as this sketch shows them. 13181 CESAR (Jules) Commentaires des guerres de la Gaule, plus ceux des Guerres Civiles contre la part Pompeienne, le tout de la version de Blaise de Vigenere, folio, LARGE PAPER, ruled with red lines, FINE COPY in old crimson morocco, gilt edges, with wreath and monogram on the sides, £6. 6s Paris, Abel l'Angelier, 1589 The wreath on the sides, which forms a frame to the central oval in which the cipher is impressed, consists on one side of a branch of palm and on the other of a spray of different foliage, as in the example given by MariusMichel of such an ornament as used towards the close of the sixteenth century. It was specially employed by the binders of the Eve family. As for the cipher, I am unable to riddle it. It looks like a cordon so arranged as to take the shape of a twin-heart reversed, and may be thought to embrace the initials of the translator B V (Blaise Vigenère). woodcut 13182 CÆSARIS Commentarii and maps views, Paris. Vascosan. 1543-VEGETIUS RENATUS, Frontinus, Elianus, Modestus, ed. Budæus, 120 full-page woodcuts of Military Machinery, different forms of Cannon, Divers and Diving Apparatus, etc. Paris, Wechel, 1553-2 vols. in 1, folio, old French |