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Emblemata: EX BIBLIOTHECA COLBERTINA AND HEBERIANA
by MACCIO, Paolo (1576-1638)
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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About This Item
OUTSTANDING PROVENANCE
4to (203x140 mm); 18th-century full calf, panels within a triple fillet in gilt, spine with five raised bands and gilt title on morocco label, marbled endleaves, gilt edges (joints and top of the spine partially restored); 331, (5) pp. With frontispiece, portrait of the Madonna di San Luca and 81 full-page emblems, all engraved by Giovanni Battista Coriolano (1595-1649), Oliviero Gatti (1598-1646) and Agostino Parisini (fl. 1625-1636) after drawings by Florio Macchi and Giovanni Battista Coriolano. Provenance: Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683), minister of finances of France under King Louis XIV, also renown for his celebrated library which was sold at Paris in 1728 (his ownership's inscription on the title-page); Richard Heber (1773-1833), English book-collector and founder of the Roxburghe Club of bibliophiles, whose library of 105,000 volumes was sold by auction at London in 1835 (his stamp on the front flyleaf); Beckford Library (pencil note on the front flyleaf, dated Dec. 20, 1882). Small repair to the lower margin of pp. 121/122 not affecting the text, otherwise a very good, fresh copy.
FIRST EDITION of this lively and richly illustrated emblem book, which often offers an interesting iconography on contemporary life in Bologna.
Giovanni Battista Coriolano and Oliviero Gatti, pupils of G.L. Valesio, are responsible for the majority of the illustrations. The engraved title and 26 of the emblems were engraved by Coriolano. The dedicatory plate and 52 of the emblems are the work of Gatti. The remaining plates were engraved by Agostino Parisini after Florio Maccio, a pupil of Lodovico Carracci.
Paolo Maccio (o Macchi o Mazzi), born in Modena, studied in Bologna, where he was later appointed professor in the local university. He published several orations and occasional texts related to academic life (cf. G. Tiraboschi, Biblioteca modenese, Modena, 1783-'86, III, pp. 103-104 AND VI, p. 131; see also S. Mazzetti, Repertorio di tutti i professori dell'Università e dell'Istituto delle Scienze di Bologna, Bologna, 1848, p. 207).
J. Landwehr, Romanic emblem books, Utrecht, 1976, no. 496; Catalogo unico, IT\ICCU\VEAE\002254; M. Praz, Studies in seventeenth-century Imagery, Rome, 1975, p. 409; Cicognara, no. 1913; A. Sorbelli, Storia della stampa in Bologna, Bologna, 1929, p. 140; L. Frati, Opere della bibliografia bolognese, Bologna, 1888-1889, no. 7447; L. Bolzoni & B. Allegranti, Con parola brieve e con figura: libri antichi di imprese e emblemi, Lucca, 2004, p. 48.Reviews
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Details
- Bookseller
- Govi Rare Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6
- Title
- Emblemata
- Author
- MACCIO, Paolo (1576-1638)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Clemente Ferroni
- Place of Publication
- Bologna
- Date Published
- 1628
- Size
- 4to
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Emblems, Provenances
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Govi Rare Books LLC
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About the Seller
Govi Rare Books LLC
Biblio member since 2017
Woodside, New York City, New York
About Govi Rare Books LLC
My main fields of interest are manuscripts, incunabula and 16th century books. A thorough understanding of classical languages (particularly Latin) and of the main languages of Western culture (English, Italian, French, Spanish and German) allows us to deal with books and to utilize the scientific publications printed in these languages. After graduating in classical studies at the University of Bologna, I have deepened my knowledge in the field of antiquarian books, attending courses at the École de l'Institut d'Histoire du Livre of Lyon, concerning physical bibliography and printing types, and at Merton College in Oxford on the study of paper. I have been for several years committee member and treasurer of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Italy and, from 2010 to 2015, its president. I am currently a member of the ILAB's committee and the secretary to the Breslauer prize for bibliography.
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Raised Band(s)
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- Plate
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- Spine
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