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Librería: ASHER Rare Books, T Goy Houten, Holanda
[14], 282 ll.First edition of an important work on the history of Genoa from its beginnings to 1527, finely bound by Albert Magnus. Though primarily concerned with Italian history it also discusses America, containing under the year 1493 (leaf 249) an interesting account of Christopher Columbus - a native from Genoa - called "the inventor of the navigation to the New World". This copy has a very interesting provenance: it was in the possession of the great Dutch book collector Paulo van Uchelen (ca. 1641/42-1702), who had it bound by the most famous bookbinder of the Dutch golden age, Albert Magnus. In 1970 Herman de la Fontaine Verwey noted that Van Uchelen appeared to have had many of his books bound by a single workshop following a sort of Van Uchelen house style (the 1703 catalogue itself notes the great consistency of the bindings): gold-tooled vellum, each board with a frame of double fillets, with a crown inside each corner. With an early manuscript name on the title-page in brown ink: "M. Fr[.?] L (?) Seim (?)". After Van Uchelen s death, the work came into possession of Sir Andrew Fountaine (1676-1753), as the gold-tooled elephant at the top of the spine shows. He was one of the most renowned connoisseurs of his day, with unrivalled collections of classical antiquities, coins, miniatures and books. We suppose he bought it at the 1703 Van Uchelen auction. From 1725, he was Vice-Chamberlain to Princess, later Queen Caroline, and succeeded Sir Isaac Newton in 1727 as Master of the Mint.Bifolium z4.5 is lacking in the bound book, which instead contains a second copy of bifolium z3.6, but z4.5 has been added separately in a portfolio. With minor water stains, but otherwise a fine copy, finely bound by Albert Magnus for Paulo van Uchelen.l Adams G751; BMC STC Italian p. 306; Catalogus van de treffelijke vergadering van kunst en boeken van . Paulus van Uchelen, Amsterdam, 1703, under "historici in folio", p. 24, no. 196. (auction cat. UB Amsterdam NV 63); Harisse 220; Leclerc, Bibliotheca Americana (1687), no. 642; Sabin 27518; USTC 833550; for Magnus and Van Uchelen: H. de la Fontaine Verwey, "De binder Albertus Magnus", in: Uit de wereld van het boek II, pp. 147-169, at pp. 161-162.
Librería: Antiquariaat FORUM BV, Houten, Holanda
CCLV [= CCLVJ], [28] ll.A finely printed edition of this great compendium of canon law. The author, citizen, canon and bishop of St Davies died in 1446. His reputation rests on his present Provinciale, a digest in five books "of the most important ecclesiastical legislation enacted within the province of Canterbury between the Council of Oxford in 1222 and Chichele's archiepiscopate. To these statutes, or constitutions as they were more properly called, Lyndwood added two royal responses to clerical demands made in the constitutions: the writ Circumspecte agatis (1286) and part of the Articuli cleri (1316)" (DNB). The work was edited and completed with an elaborate index by the eminent Paris printer and grammarian Jodocus Badius (or Josse Bade).Some marginal annotations in ink. First leaves a bit soiled or stained; last leaf reinforced; endpapers renewed. On the original flyleaf some contemporary annotations, including quotations from the bible and a recipe, both in English. Binding restored. A very good copy of an attractively printed work.l Adams L2117; BMC STC Dutch, p. 68; ESTC S109035; Netherlandish books 11171; Nijhoff & Kronenberg 1442 (erroneously calling for 276 leaves in total); Renouard, Badius III, pp. 52-53 (incorrect collation); USTC 403751.