Vossius Dionysius Translator (1 results)
More imagesPublished by Ex officina Ioannis Maire, Leiden, 1633
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Contact seller5-star sellerTranslation of Voornaemste gheschiedenissen in de Nederlanden ende elders, first published in Dutch in 1626. Title page printed in red and black, woodcut initials and tail-pieces. [10], 561 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Upper board with the coat of arms of Ramiro Núñez de Guzmán (1600-1668), duke of Medina de las Torres and the Spanish vic…eroy of Naples from 1637 to 1644, quartered with those of his second wife: Anna Caraffa (1607-1644), Duchess of Mondragone, Sabbioneta and Trajetto, Princess of Stigliano. The abbreviation FEI means 'Fortuna etiam invidente'. Lower board with her arms and the motto REVOLUTA FOECUNDANT. The letters around the two coats of arms, forming a necklace (C. G. D. D. M. M. A. H. P. P. M. I. G. P. C. L. A.), are the first letters of the motto of the Count of Olivares: Comitatui Grandatum Ducatum Marchionatum Marchionatum Arcis Hispalensis Perpetuam Praefecturam Magnam Indiarum Guzmanorum Primam Chancellariatum Lineam Additit. Other identically decorated bindings bearing the arms of the Duke of Medina de Las Torres are known: a binding that appeared in the catalog of the first Wittock sale (2004, no. 77, covering a Heidelberg edition of 1590, described as a Spanish binding) and one in the catalog of the Maurice Burrus sale (I, 2015, no. 79, covering a Florentine edition of 1504), where it was described by Isabelle de Conihout as being of Neapolitan manufacture. The Jeanson copy of Libro de la Monterio (1582), was similarly bound Ramiro returned to Spain in 1644 he took a part of the library with him. After his death the library was bought by William Godolphin (1635-96), then English ambassador to Spain. Some of her books remained in Naples, in the Biblioteca dei Girolamini and the Biblioteca Nazionale in Naples, but a portion did reach the market (including Utrecht Univ. MS 764, in a binding of similar execution). cf. Oldham, Shrewsbury School Library Bindings, pp. 120-121, pl. XXVI. Provenance: Duke of Medina de Las Torres (arms); General Theological Seminary (bookplates and blindstamps) Contemporary red morocco gilt, upper cover with scroll borders, central arms of Medina de las Torres, within cyphered frame, lower board seme with starry sky over the earth with three plants and the motto REVOLVTA FOECVNDANT at head, a.e.g. Some rubbing at edges, worming to lower joint Title page printed in red and black, woodcut initials and tail-pieces. [10], 561 pp. 1 vols. Folio Translation of Voornaemste gheschiedenissen in de Nederlanden ende elders, first published in Dutch in 1626.
