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(ELZEVIER IMPRINTS). (BINDINGS - ARMORIAL). PASOR, GEORGBiblio.com

MANUALE GRAECARUM VOCUM N. TESTAMENTI CUI ACCESSIT INDEX ANOMALORUM ET DIFFICILIORUM VOCABULORUM ITEM TRACTATUS DE GRÆCIS N. TESTAMENTI ACCENTIBUS

1640Best.-Nr. ST19814Lugd. Batavorum Leyden: Ex officina Elzeviriana 1640. Third Elzevier Edition. 130 x 72 mm. 5 1/8 x 2 7/8". 4 p.l. 536 30 47 pp. Excellent late 18th century dark blue straight-grain morocco in the style of Roger Payne gilt covers with floral vine cornerpieces gilt supralibros of George Spencer-Churchill 5th Duke of Marlborough Stamp 3 featuring the head and wings of a griffin emerging from a ducal coronet surmounted by the coronet of a marquess raised bands spine panels with gilt fleuron centerpiece gilt lettering gilt-ruled turn-ins all edges gilt. Title page with engraved frame featuring the Four Evangelists and their symbols. Rahir 500; Willems 505. For the binding: Smith and Benger p. 46; "British Armorial Bindings" https://armorial.library.utoronto.ca/node/31988. ◆Spine evenly faded and gilt consequently a little dulled a touch of rubbing to extremities tail margin of text with half-inch wide light dampstain extending an inch up on the fore-edge margin of the last couple quires a hint of foxing and browning other trivial imperfections but still a pleasing copy without serious defects internally and in a scarcely worn binding with lustrous covers. This Elzevier printing of the first lexicon of New Testament Greek comes in an elegant binding and with illustrious provenance. First printed in 1619 the "Manuale" is the work of German philologist Georg Pasor 1570-1637 and was the authority on New Testament Greek throughout the 17th century. Printed by Bonaventure and Abraham Elzevier our volume is bound in the style of the venerable English artisan Roger Payne using the straight-grain morocco process developed by Payne with delicately tooled gilt panels framing the cover. The supralibros of a man whose love of books brought him to ruin was added at the center both boards sometime before 1817. The coronet above the griffin indicates that George Spencer-Churchill 1766-1840 was at that time the Marquess of Blandford before his father's death in 1817 made him the 5th Duke of Marlborough. According to DNB "He spent great sums on his gardens and his library at White Knights near Reading." His extravagance eventually ruined him financially and most of his collection had to be auctioned during his lifetime. According to the University of Toronto's "British Armorial Bindings" this volume was Lot 3017 in the sale of the "Distinguished and Celebrated" White Knights Library conducted by R. H. Evans of London in June of 1819; it sold for eight shillings. Our book was later sold at Sotheby's on 13 June 1934 lot 725; the catalogue for that sale described the binding as "in the style of Roger Payne." We find ourselves inclined to believe even more heartily in this association. Ex officina Elzeviriana unknown

Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts · Vereinigte Staaten1.560,00 $≈ 1.390,99 €

(ELZEVIER IMPRINTS). (BINDINGS - ARMORIAL). PASOR, GEORGABAA

MANUALE GRAECARUM VOCUM N. TESTAMENTI CUI ACCESSIT INDEX ANOMALORUM ET DIFFICILIORUM VOCABULORUM ITEM TRACTATUS DE GRÆCIS N. TESTAMENTI ACCENTIBUS

Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts · Vereinigte Staaten1.560,00 $≈ 1.390,99 €

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L'Office de la quinzaine de Pasque

1755Best.-Nr. 178721Paris: d'Houry seul imprimeur-libraire de monseigneur le Duc d'Orleans 1755. Royal Easter in Paris A beautiful copy of the Easter liturgy for the year 1755 printed and finely bound in Paris for the House of Orléans. The covers bear the arms of Louis-Philippe I 1725-1785 Duke of Orléans Valois and Montpensie premier prince du sang and grandfather of Louis-Philippe I the last king of France. Editions of the Easter liturgy were produced every year and printed by d'Houry the official printer to the duke of Orléans. Copies in fine bindings such as this bearing the arms of the current duke were destined for members of the family and court and to faithful subjects. The binding was very likely made by Jean-Charles-Henri LeMonnier le jeune who is documented as bookbinder to the duke of Orléans from 1759. The LeMonniers were one of the most famous families of bookbinders of the period. Henry le jeune son of Jean-Charles senior "lived with his father in the Rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais probably sharing his atelier and his tools and it is difficult to distinguish their work. The bindings for the duke of Orléans and his family are most probably the work of le jeune" Foot p. 199. Octavo 193 x 122 mm. Copper-engraved frontispiece. Contemporary red morocco spine with raised bands lettering in second compartment other compartments framed in gilt with floral corner pieces and armorial centrepieces covers bordered with gilt fillets and two fleur-de-lis rolls gilt armorial centrepieces of Louis Philippe I Duke of Orléans board edges and turn-ins tooled in gilt marbled endpapers edges gilt. Small printed illustration of a fly hand-coloured loosely inserted. Binding sometime skilfully polished a little wear to corners front inner hinge split but firm faint small damp stain to lower margin of a couple of gatherings. A handsomely bound copy. Mirjam M. Foot The Henry Davis Gift I 1978. Stamp: close to OHR 2572 no. 1; Guigard attributes it to Philippe-Égalité see p. 39. hardcover

Peter Harrington · Vereinigtes Königreich2.000,00 £≈ 2.380,16 €

(BINDINGS - FRENCH ARMORIAL). [COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE]Biblio.com

THE PILOT

1825Best.-Nr. ST17589Paris: L. Daubry 1825. First French Edition text in English. 170 x 103 mm. 6 3/4 x 4". Three volumes. REGAL CONTEMPORARY BEIGE MOROCCO GILT AND INLAID covers with gilt frame and inlaid cornerpieces of pink and burgundy morocco in floral designs ARMS OF WILLIAM DUKE OF BRUNSWICK at center inlaid in red and green morocco and lavishly gilt raised bands spine panels with graceful design of flowers and acanthus leaves gilt lettering gilt-ruled turn-ins all edges gilt. Front pastedowns with bookplate of Wilhelm Herzog zu Braunschweig printed in colors and embossed with gilt; title pages with ink stamp "Prinz von Braunschweig." ◆Spines darkened to tan head panels with traces of brown residue possibly from library labels boards faintly soiled at edges but A FINE SET with no signs of use inside or out. This is an exceptionally fine copy with distinguished provenance of the first Paris printing of a nautical adventure by a great American writer who enjoyed unusual popularity in France. Set during the American Revolution and first printed in 1823 "The Pilot" has for its protagonist a real-life American naval hero John Paul Jones. Cooper 1789-1851 had himself worked as a commercial seaman and served in the U.S. Navy and his firsthand knowledge of both the technical aspects of seamanship and the day-to-day realities of life at sea lend a ring of authenticity to his sea novels of which this was the first. According to Encyclopedia Americana "Cooper may be said in 'The Pilot' to have created a new literary type the tale of adventure on the sea . . . . Smollett had already discovered the racy humors of seamen but he had seen little else in their calling; it remained for Cooper to capture for fiction the mystery and beauty the shock and thrill of the sea which in his pages has much of the proud pomp of Byron's ocean." Cooper spent the years 1826-28 in Paris where his literary reputation gained him access to the best salons and where he became a close friend of the marquis de Lafayette. Given the ornate decoration and the quality of materials and execution this binding was very likely done by a Parisian workshop as a commission for Duke William of Brunswick-Lüneburg 1806-84 the last member of his family to rule the duchy of Brunswick. Although he was the ruler of the Duchy of Brunswick for more than 50 years he preferred to spend his time enjoying the life of an aristocrat and left most of the official business to his ministers. He also failed to produce a legitimate heir though he had a number of illegitimate children and ended the House of Brunswick's rule over the duchy. L. Daubry unknown