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Modern Binders-continued.

813 Hagué. LOMAZZI (Gio. Paolo) Rime In Milano

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Small 4to. brown morocco extra, gilt edges, with little inlaid pieces of red
and black morocco on the sides
1587

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A beautiful piece of work, quite unlike the productions of other binders. 814 Hardy-Mennil. CANCIONERO DE LOPEZ MALDONADO Madrid.. 1586. Small 4to. crimson morocco extra, gilt edges, with the Seillière arms on the sides 1586 30 0 0

A very rare book in a beautiful binding.

815 Lortic. VIRGILII. ENEIS. Small 8vo. CHARMING MS. ON VELLUM, written in a fine hand closely approximating to Italics; with a beautiful painted border of interlacements on the first page, in which there is a picture of Virgil laurelled, and an escutcheon on which the bearing has been defaced; an illuminated initial to every book; in an exquisite olive morocco binding, gilt with a geometrical pattern of interlacements in the Grolier style, the edges gilt and goffered About 1475 50 0 0

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816 VIRGILII Carmina omnia. . Parisiis MDCCCLVIII. 16mo. with photographic vignettes; red morocco extra, gilt edges

The back is richly gilt à petits fers.

1858 220

817 BANDELLUS. Ad illustrissimū epistola fratris Vincēti de castro nouo . narratiua disputatiois facte de materia cōceptiōis beate virginis Marie . . Colophon.. Bonon. per Ugonem de rugeriis . . i48i.

mauve morocco

Small 4to. green morocco extra, gilt edges, with a mosaic picture of the Virgin on the sides, effected by the inlay of pieces of blue, yellow, and 1481 818 Marius-Michel. COLONNA (Guido). Title: LA CORONICA TROYANA Colophon: Seuilla por Jacobo crōberger . . mill z qniētos z.xix.. Small folio, bound in red morocco, WITH A GREEN

EN ROMACE.

MOROCCO DOUBLURE

700

1519 32 0

The red morocco cover has the Seillière arms in the centre on the sides, and a bee in the panels on the back. The doublure is gilt, in imitation of a masterly Grolieresque binding with a geometrical design flanked by graceful winding curves that bear azuré fleurons. There is no signature, but the work seems to be that of Marius Michel. 819 ESPEJO DE CAUALLERIAS: en el qual se trata de los fechos del cōde do rolda . . Colophon: Fenesce la primera parte.. Fue impressa en Seuilla en la imprēta de Jua cromberger M.d.xlv.

Small folio, bound in crimson morocco, bearing the Seillière arms, with

a DOUBLURE IN GREEN MOROCCO

1545 40 0

There is a splendid Grolieresque design on the doublure, which is signed "HardyMennil Marius-Michel doreur." No other copy of this volume seems to be known. 820 LEPOLEMO. Title: LIBRO PRIMERO DEL CAUALLER DE LA CRUZ. EL LIBRO DEL INUENCIBLE CAUALLERO LEPOLEMO . Colophon: Toledo en casa de Luys Perez. . Mill & quinientos y sessenta y tres . Años.

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Small folio, crimson morocco, bearing the Seillière arms, with a
BLUE MOROCCO DOUBLURE gilt in imitation of one of the best examples of
the "Eve-LeGascon" school

Signed "Chambolle-Duru. Marius-Michel doreur."
The doublure is an exquisite piece of work.

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1563 90 0

Colophon:
M.D.XXVI.

821 PALMERIN DE OLIUA ~ sus grandes fechos
Emprimido en Venetia por Gregorio de Gregoriis.
Small folio, crimson morocco, gilt edges, with a LINING of crimson
morocco, richly gilt

1536 38 0

The doublure bears a geometrical pattern, having the spaces occupied by a semis of crosslets in the corner compartments, and by brilliant wreaths of foliage in the compartments around the centre. Signed "Chambolle-Duru 1869. Marius-Michel doreur."

The Seillière arms form a centrepiece on the side.

Modern Binders-continued.

822 RENALDOS. Title: LIBRO DEL NOBLE Y ESFORÇADO INUENCIBLE CAUALLERO RENALDOS DE MONTALUAN.. Colophon: Impresso en Salamanca.. mill & qniētos z veynte z seys años. Small folio, crimson morocco Janseniste, with a MOSAIC DOUBLURE of olive morocco, inlaid with pieces of crimson, green, and blue

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1526 55 0 0

This superb doublure is an improved imitation of the most elaborate work of the Eve-LeGascon school, and may be, without hesitation, described as one of the greatest triumphs of the art of Marius-Michel. Signed "Chambolle-Duru Marius-Michel doreur."

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823 ROMANCERO GENERAL, en que se contiene todos los Romances que andan impressos. . Año 1604 En Madrid, por Iuan de la Cuesta. . 8vo. (small 4to. size), fine copy in crimson morocco extra, gilt edges, LINED WITH Α BEAUTIFUL

MOROCCO GILT

DOUBLURE OF DARK GREEN

1604 36 0 0

The arms of Baron Seillière on the cover. This is a superbly bound copy of a rare and precious volume. The back is finely decorated, but the gilding of the doublure is a charming imitation of the so-called Eve style of binding in which graceful branches of foliage mingle with a geometrical pattern.

Hardy-Mennil was the binder; Marius-Michel the doreur.

824 Niedrée. [GUIART DE SERVIGNE] Les Sonnettes ou Memoires du Marquis
D. . 2 parts in 1 vol. 16mo. 4 plates; bound in citron morocco extra,
gilt edges, for the Duke of Hamilton, whose arms are impressed in gold
on the sides
Berg-op-Zoom, 1751
A pretty example of the Maison Niedrée. The book is what people call

facetious.

$25 R. Petit. AMADIS DE GAULA.. Colophon:

impremido por Antonio de Salamāca . . mill z quinientos z xix. . Small folio, with numerous woodcuts; the title and four other leaves in facsimile; crimson morocco extra, gilt edges, the Seillière arms on the sides

An excessively rare book in a magnificent cover.

2 16 0

1519 21 0 0

826 Thibaron - Joly. HYSTORIA DE HERIQUE HIJO DE DOÑA OLIUA.. M.D.xlviij. Colophon: Impresso en Burgos. . M.D.xlviij. Small 4to. Gothic Letter; fine copy in red morocco extra, gilt edges,

LINED WITH A BEAUTIFUL DOUBLURE OF BLUE MOROCCO, RICHLY GILT

A magnificent copy of a very rare Romance.

1548 37 10 0

827 LA HYSTORIA DE LOS DOS ENAMORADOS FLORES Y BLANCA FLOR.. Colophon: Impresso con licencia, en Burgos. . M.D.Lxij. Small 4to. Gothic Letter; fine copy in red morocco extra, gilt edges, WITH A BEAUTIFUL DOUBLURE OF CITRON MOROCCO, RICHLY

GILT

1562 37 10 0

The ornamentation of this volume is exactly the same as that of the Henrique; the only difference being the colour of the doublure. 828 Trautz-Bauzonnet. PLATYNE DE HONESTA VOLUPTATE . . Colophon: .. impressuź in Ciuitate Austrie: impensis z expensis Gerardi de Flandria.. M°.cccc .lxxx°. . Small 4to. very fine large copy in crimson morocco extra, gilt edges, with the monogram of Yemeniz on the sides

1480 829 STATII SYLVARVM LIBRI QVINQVE THEBAIDOS LIBRI DVODECIM ACHILLEIDOS DVO. . Colophon: Venetiis in aedibvs Aldi . . M,DII. 12mo. the anchor illuminated; beautiful copy in crimson morocco extra, gilt edges

1502

830 DUBELLAY. LES OEVVRES FRANCOISES de ioachim dv bellay A Rouen.. 1592. 12mo. crimson morocco extra, gilt edges, the back covered with granulated gold through which the crimson leather stands out in bold decorative patterns

1592

A beautiful copy of a rare book. Inside the cover is the oval label of a recent owner, giving his arms, which are a tree vert, the shield surmounted by the coronet of a Count.

7 10 0

5 5 0

500

Modern Binders-continued.

831 DUBUISSON (P. P.) ARMORIAL ALPHABETIQUE des principales Maisons et Familles du Roiaume. . 2 vols. 12mo. beautiful copy in crimson morocco extra, gilt edges

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Paris, 1757 15 15 0

At the beginning of the second volume, we find inserted a document of no small value to a collector of bindings. It is the engraved ticket of Dubuisson, the full size of the Armorial, and serving here as a frontispiece. It begins under an escutcheon with the words DU BUISSON le Fils, Relieur Doreur, | Rue Saint Jacques | etc. Gruel found it on a single specimen of Dubuisson's binding, and has engraved it in his Manuel.

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832 THE KUR'AN. The Seventh and the Thirteenth Juz', in Arabic, in 1 vol. small folio, fine MS. in bold Naskhi characters, six lines to the page; in the original Egyptian binding of smooth fine grained morocco, ornamented with geometrical gilding, and blind-tooled knot-work and dots on the sides (mended and rebacked) Written about 1450, bound about 1500

Within the first and second gold fillet on the sides, there is a border in blind-tooling of a row of saltires, with a dot in each quarter. (These dots were originally gilt.) Inside the second fillet, there is an elaborate geometrical design in gold lines, consisting wholly of figures of angular form over which falls one that is nearly circular to the eye but is really a dodecahedron. Within the lines and in the corners there are dots and lattice-work, a few of the dots still retaining their gold. On the overlapping leather, the surface is blind-tooled with knotwork except in the middle where a crescent stands out in plain relief.

This volume was formerly the property by bequest of some institution, and has the word wakf marked on various pages. It is all in one handwriting and must therefore be regarded as having been the only rescued or obtainable portions of some famous Kur'an.

833 DA WAT-I SAB'A: Prayers, in Arabic. Small folio, MS. on gilt paper, 5 leaves or 8 pp. in the finest style of calligraphy, with ten lines in small Naskhi, and three lines in Culç upon every page, written upon a gold ground and having the margins decorated with gold patterns of flowers, plants, and trees; in a superb binding

660

Constantinople, about 1600 21 0 0 The cover is red morocco, but of its colour and texture we see no more than a geometrical or architectonic figure in high relief which serves to frame the centrepiece. The sides are entirely covered otherwise with fine arabesques in low relief upon a ground of gold which occupies the whole of the sunken panels or compartments inside and outside of the red leather space referred to. Inside, the red morocco is covered by a lining of olive morocco which has an ornamental frame-work and fillets, and in the centre a sunken oval panel of blue morocco bearing a beautiful floral design in gold in strong

relief.

This is Persian work of the highest order executed in Constantinople about 1600-1610. (See facsimile among Illustrations.)

The scribe, whose name is given in a colophon, was a famous calligrapher, of the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century: Ahmad KaraHisāri.

VIII. Books on Binding.

834 ARNETT (John Andrews) Bibliopegia, or the Art of Bookbinding in all its branches.. the second edition with considerable additions, 12mo. plates and woodcuts 1836 090

835

836

by John Hannett, a new edition, 12mo. plates and cuts; bds. 1842 An Inquiry into the nature and form of the Books of the Ancients; with a history of the Art of Bookbinding.. 12mo. plates and woodcuts 1837

The author is best known under the name of Arnett, although in the 1842 edition of the Bibliopegia he revealed that his proper designation was Hannett. 837 BOUCHOT (Henri) Les Reliures d'Art à la Bibliothèque Nationale, roy. 8vo. 80 plates; sd.

050

100

Paris, 1888

180

638 BURLINGTON FINE ARTS CLUB [ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE of the] Exhibition of Bookbindings [with introductory remarks by C. Gordon Duff and Miss S. T. Prideaux]. Atlas 4to. LARGE PAPER, with 113 plates mostly executed in chromo-lithography; cloth, uncut

£ s. d.

Printed for the Club, 1891 10 10 0 The great number of faithful reproductions, executed by W. Griggs, will give this catalogue a permanent value. The descriptions are very brief, but they are by

Mr. Weale.

839 EDWARDS (Edward) Memoirs of Libraries 2 vols. 8vo. plates;

cloth

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1859 The plates include several fine coloured examples of historical and artistic bookbindings.

840 FLETCHER (William Younger) English Bookbindings in the British Museum. . selected on account of their beauty or historical interest. Folio, 63 plates executed in gold and colours by Mr. Griggs; cloth,

uncut

841

842

1895 A grand volume full of teaching for the collectors of bindings. Bookbinding in England and France, 2 parts in 1 vol. roy. 8vo. 17 coloured plates, and 40 plain illustrations; cloth, uncut Foreign Bookbindings in the British Museum, folio, with 65 coloured plates by Griggs; cloth, uncut

1897

1896

This book, just issued, is one of Mr. Fletcher's best productions. 843 GROLIER CLUB OF NEW YORK. The Catalogue of Books from the libraries or collections of celebrated bibliophiles and illustrious persons of the past. . exhibited at the Grolier Club.. January 1895. Small 4to. cloth, uncut

1 16 0

3 3 0

076

3 3 0

New York, 1895 5 5 0

844 GRUEL (Léon) Manuel Historique et Bibliographique de Reliures. . roy. 4to. numerous plates and woodcuts, several of the illustrations beautifully coloured and gilt; sd.

845

Art.

Paris, 1887 the same, a fine copy in whole red morocco, gilt top, uncut 1887 A book of great excellence; indispensable to all students of the history of the

380

4 15 0

1893

550

846 HOLMES (Richard R.) A Selection of Royal and Historical Bookbindings
from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, with an introduction,
impl. 4to. about 150 plates in colours and gold, by Griggs
847 LA ROCHE LA CARELLE (Baron S. de) Catalogue de la Bibliothèque
[vendue Mai 1888], roy. 4to. LARGE PAPER, with numerous plates of the
magnificent bindings in the library, besides four duplicate reproductions
in gold and colours; with the LISTE DES PRIX D'ADJUDICATION which was
issued separately afterwards; sd.
Paris, 1888
843 LE ROUX DE LINCY, Recherches sur Jean Grolier, sur sa Vie et sa
Bibliothèque.. 8vo. with plates giving facsimiles of Grolier's writing
and of bindings executed for him (these being reproduced in gold and
colours; hf. red morocco extra, gilt edges
Paris, 1866

An autograph letter from Le Roux de Lincy to Comte Clément de Ris on the
subject of the book, is inserted.

$49 LIBRI (Guillaume) MONUMENTS inédits on peu connus.. (in French and English) 60 plates, 1862-SUPPLÉMENT, 5 plates, 1864—2 vols. in 1, roy. folio, 65 plates in colour and gold; hf. morocco

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1862-64 Seconde édition, roy. folio, 65 plates in colour and gold; in portfolio 1864 1 MARIUS-MICHEL, LA RELIURE FRANÇAISE depuis l'invention de l'Imprimerie jusqu'à la fin du XVIIIe Siècle, roy. 4to. numerous plates giving facsimiles of bindings, besides many woodcuts of the details in the text; hf. morocco gilt top, uncut Paris, 1880

However one may disagree with certain opinions of Marius-Michel, this is an important and valuable treatise.

100

1 11 6

4 15 0

4 4 0

200

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852 MARIUS-MICHEL, LA RELIURE FRANÇAISE COMMERCIALE ET INDUstrielle,
roy. 4to. numerous plates and woodcuts (including some coloured ones);
sd.
Paris, 1881

0 12

853

the same two works, PRINTED ON IMPERIAL JAPANESE PAPER, and having an India proof impression of the frontispiece; 2 vols. impl. 4to. hf. morocco, gilt tops, uncut 1880-81

4 14

854 QUARITCH (Bernard) A Collection of Facsimiles from examples of
Historic or Artistic Book-binding. illustrating the history of the art,
impl. 8vo. 103 coloured plates; hf. morocco, gilt top, uncut

855
the same, bound in whole red morocco extra, gilt edges
856 TECHENER, Histoire de la Bibliophilie: RELIURES

1889

7 7

1889

10 10

impl. folio,

3 3

50 plates; in portfolio, £2. 12s 6d; or bound in half morocco Paris, 1861 857 THOINAN (Ernest) LES RELIEURS FRANÇAIS (1500-1800) Biographie critique et anecdotique, précédé de l'Histoire de la Communauté des Relieurs.. 8vo. numerous illustrations; sd.

858

Paris, 1893
1893

1 6

2.10

the same, LARGE PAPER; sd.
The labour and critical judgment exercised in the compilation of this highly
important work are not likely to find rivals or imitators for many years to come.

In preparation:

AN ALPHABETICAL INDEX of the Contents of the present Catalogue, comprising the titles, and the names of owners and binders

To be had separately for 02

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