[Sammelband in full leather containing Thesaurus amicorum and Insignium aliquot virorum icones]

[Sammelband in full leather containing Thesaurus amicorum and Insignium aliquot virorum icones]

[France?], [16th century?]

1 volume ; 17 cm

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Tournes, Jean de, 1539-1615. Insignium aliquot virorum icones.
Thesaurus amicorum.
Insignium aliquot virorum icones.

France, -- production place.

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From dealer's description: "Thesavrvs Amicorvm. Lyon,]. I de Tournes c. 1557. 8vo (162 x 102 mm.). [i], [387]p. THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY-SEVEN PAGES BLANK BUT FOR THEIR THIRTY-TWO DIFFERENT BORDERS REPEATED IN VARYING ORDERS -arabesques, white-line, azured, black-line, open, intricate, mythological, historiated-title in a wider typographic arabesque frame. 17th-century gilt-ruled polished calf (hinges neatly restored), spine and title gilt, marbled pastedowns, edges sprinkled red; the two volumes divided by a leaf of early paper marbled on one side only. With: InslgnlvmAllqvot Vlrorvm leones. Lyon,]. II de Tournes 1559. 8vo [xvi], 236, [4 blank]p. one hundred forty-five medallion woodcut bust portraits (40 mm.), a woodcut viper device on title (Cartier m). Ad I: De Tournes produced this marvelous album for students, travelers and nobles who wished their peers, friends, colleagues and hosts to enter their signatures, dedicatory verses, coats of arms, emblems, sentiments and mottoes within the decorative borders. These include "THREE EXTRAORDINARY ONES...COMPOSED OF RABELAISIAN MONSTERS AND OTHER GROTESQUE CREATURES" (Davies) -evoking the famous The Drolatlc Dreams ofPantagruel. The borders have been variously attributed to the workshops of Bernard Salomon and of Geoffroy Tory. Klose records two surviving copies of the Thesaurus used as alba and notes that "the layout of this book shows what was important about the albums...the printing mimicked manuscript books ofhours...the [would-be manuscript] entry stood in a strong, beautiful frame"(tr.).The number ofleaves differs in each copy, ranging one hundred ninety-four (as here) to two hundred eight (Hofer-Harvard). Another version adds on the title the phrase "illustrated with various figures" (tr.) and employs some images of the leones (II). ,-Rosenheim,"The Album Amicorum" inArchaeologia LXII (1910) 253 & pl. XXI; Klose, Corpus Alborum Amicorum...Beschreibendes Verzeichnis der Stammbiicher des 16.jahrhunderts XVII; Cartier, Bibliographie desCditt.'ons des De Tourne.s 794; Mortimer, French 514; see Davies' Catalogue ofa Collection of Early French Books t.'n the Lt.'brary of C. Falrfax Murray 420. Ad II: ONLY EDITION OF THIS WOODCUT BOOK FOR CHILDREN on famous learned men and women, drawing on nearly thirty sources, including Erasmus, Crinitus, Picard and Gesner. In the dedication,Jean II states that he undertook the book to utilize the woodcuts left by his father, while in the opening address to "studious youth", he discusses the pleasure young readers should take from admiring the portraits while learning about the lives of these eminent philosophers, historians, scientists and playwrights from Aristotle to Blondus. Ingood condition (a few margins ink smudged, clean tear with no loss); bookplate of Raoul-Edouard Cartier, nephew and heir of de Tournes bibliographer, Alfred Cartier (1845-1921). ,-Buisson, Rlpertot.'re des ouvrages pedagogique.s du XVf st.'ecle 700; Cicognara, Catalogo ragionato dri lr:hri d'arte 2052;Cartier 442;Mortimer 527; Davies 286."

Ordered from Bruce McKittrick, D9633, 2023-05-01, Cat. "2023 New York Book Fair", ltem #11755.

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