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SPONTONE (Ciro) (1554 ?-1610)
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SPONTONE (Ciro) (1554 ?-1610)
Dodici libri del governo di stato. Verona, printed by Angelo Tamo for Giovanni Battista Pigozzo & Andrea de' Rossi, 1599.
In-4 (146 x 209 mm), (48)-389-(2) pp. (Some leaves uniformly yellowed, small worm gallery in inner margin of endpapers and first 4 leaves without damage to text.)
Contemporary red morocco, spine ribbed, gilt title, double gilt fillet decorated with a repeated monogram, triple gilt fillet on the boards, gilt arms in the center, gilt edges.
A fine copy in strictly contemporary red morocco, with the arms of the great bibliophile Jacques-Auguste I de Thou associated with those of his first wife, Marie de Barbançon-Cany.
These coats of arms were used from their marriage in 1587 until the death of Marie de Barbançon in 1601. The binding of this copy was thus made at the same time as the publication of Spontone's work. Moreover, the spine bears the repeated number IAM formed by the three initials of their respective first names, specially designed at the request of De Thou. The library of Jacques-Auguste I de Thou, already famous among his contemporaries, is considered one of the most important private libraries of the late sixteenth century, both by its numerical importance (estimated at about 9,000 volumes in 1617) and by the quality of its content, encyclopedic and scholarly. First edition of this rare treatise on politics for the use of princes.
PROVENANCE
Jacques-Auguste I de Thou and his first wife (arms and numeral)| Heber Library (handwritten note in English on the second flyleaf)| Estelle Doheny (bookplate)| Dominique Goytino (bookplate).
REFERENCES
Adams S-1611| OHR, pl. 216, irons no. 5 and 6.
Dodici libri del governo di stato. Verona, printed by Angelo Tamo for Giovanni Battista Pigozzo & Andrea de' Rossi, 1599.
In-4 (146 x 209 mm), (48)-389-(2) pp. (Some leaves uniformly yellowed, small worm gallery in inner margin of endpapers and first 4 leaves without damage to text.)
Contemporary red morocco, spine ribbed, gilt title, double gilt fillet decorated with a repeated monogram, triple gilt fillet on the boards, gilt arms in the center, gilt edges.
A fine copy in strictly contemporary red morocco, with the arms of the great bibliophile Jacques-Auguste I de Thou associated with those of his first wife, Marie de Barbançon-Cany.
These coats of arms were used from their marriage in 1587 until the death of Marie de Barbançon in 1601. The binding of this copy was thus made at the same time as the publication of Spontone's work. Moreover, the spine bears the repeated number IAM formed by the three initials of their respective first names, specially designed at the request of De Thou. The library of Jacques-Auguste I de Thou, already famous among his contemporaries, is considered one of the most important private libraries of the late sixteenth century, both by its numerical importance (estimated at about 9,000 volumes in 1617) and by the quality of its content, encyclopedic and scholarly. First edition of this rare treatise on politics for the use of princes.
PROVENANCE
Jacques-Auguste I de Thou and his first wife (arms and numeral)| Heber Library (handwritten note in English on the second flyleaf)| Estelle Doheny (bookplate)| Dominique Goytino (bookplate).
REFERENCES
Adams S-1611| OHR, pl. 216, irons no. 5 and 6.