Paris, Sébastien Cramoisy, 1637. In-folio, (18)-921-(47) pp., veau brun de l'époque, dos à nerfs cloisonné, filet doré en encadrement sur les plats. Coiffes frottées avec manque à la coiffe supérieure, mors anciennement restaurés, frottés et fragiles, marges du frontispice un peu rognées, manque de papier marginal p. 253-54, une gravure déchirée (épidermée) p. 504.
Reference : 14156
Beau titre-frontispice par Jaspar Isaac et 68 figures dans le texte gravées sur cuivre par Léonard Gaultier, Thomas de Leu et Jaspar Isaac daprès Ant. Caron. Les gravures ne sont pas censurées (maculées). Graesse, V 274, Brunet, IV, 620. * Voir photographie(s) / See picture(s). * Membre du SLAM et de la LILA / ILAB Member. La librairie est ouverte du lundi au vendredi de 14h à 19h. Merci de nous prévenir avant de passer,certains de nos livres étant entreposés dans une réserve.
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PHILOSTRATUS the LEMNIAN ( III ) - Blaise de VIGNERE ( translator ) :
Reference : 33725
" Paris, Chez Mathieu Guillemot, rue Sainct Jaques a la bibliotecque, 1637, in-folio, engraved title page + (16)nn pp + 921 pp + (47) nn pp with 67 large engravings (65 in the first part, 2 in second part = La Suite de Philostrate). Bound in contemporary full leather, rebacked, raised spine with gilt title, ex-library Brooklyn Library, James Bell collection, with green label on front cover and another label on the first paste-down, also on the first paste down an 18th century engraved ex-libris of D.F. Du Meiz , Praepositi B.M.V. Erfordiae. The words '' Brooklyn Public Library '' neatly perforated on the title and pp. 97, marginal loss of paper on pp. 15, 19, 547, no loss of text, clear old waterstains in the margin of the index pages. Notwithstandings these defects still a fine/good and complete copy with fine printings of the plates. These plates were engraved by Leonard Gaultier and Thomas de Leu after designs by Antoine Caron and Jasper Isac. Third illustrated edition of Blaise de Vigenère's French translation of the Imagines of the Philostrati. The Imagines of the elder Philostratus is a description of sixty-four pictures in a gallery at Naples, the continuation by Philostratus III describes 17 pictures. Goethe, Welcker and Brunn among others have held that the descriptions are of actually existing works, Heyne and Friedrichs deny this. Vigenère's French translation with commentary was first published in 1578. It was an important iconographical source book in the 17th century. See Hofer, Baroque Book Illustration, 23. The Bibliothèque Nationale list 5 editions of this book each with a different date but with the same collation; 1614 , 1615, 1629, 1630, 1637. It should be ascertained that these are really different editions. We notice that the printer's name and date of publication are engraved on a small oval vignette which fits into the engraved title page."