Xenophon

1547 · rif. 12303 — Paris: É. Groulleau for himself J. Longis and V. Sertenas 1547. CONTEMPORARY FRENCH TAN CALF FOR MARCUS FUGGER front hinge cracked and partly restored rear panel slightly stained outer and inner triple-rule frames gilt corner fleurons in the center of both panels a gilt hand holding a branch on which sits a bird spine gilt with a daisy in each compartment contemporary manuscript-lettered vellum spine label brown edges. With: Livy. c. 59 B.C.E.-17 C.E. Le premier liure de La Premiere Decade.des histoires depuis la ville fondée. Paris G. Corrozet 1548. 4to. iv 65 r. 66 4 leaves. fifteen narrative text woodcuts some with letterpress in the image all within one of several four-block woodcut frames woodcut of Lucretia in an undivided Mannerist woodcut frame of lions' heads foliage etc. title in the undivided woodcut frame. TWO ANCIENT WORKS ON STATECRAFT AND POLITICS each put into French by a different translator of Machiavelli. Ad I: First Edition in French of this manual for just rule prized for two thousand years. François I commissioned this rendering of the idealized biography of the Persian King Cyrus the Great c. 600-530 B.C.E. from Jacques de Vintimille 1512-82 who was at the time turning Machiavelli's Prince into French for the commander and statesman Anne de Montmorency c. 1493-1567. ¶Marsh "Xenophon" in Catalogus translationum VII: 84; Bunker A Bibliographical Study of the Greek Works and Translations Published in France During the Renaissance 221; Hoffmann Bibliographisches Lexicon der gesammten Litteratur der Griechen III: 602; Mortimer French 556 Groulleau issue; BP16_112971. Ad II: First Edition of Jacques Gohory's translation of Book I of Livy's From the Founding of the City treating the legendary establishment and historical development of Rome from the Trojan War to the beginning of the Republic. The reigns of the seven kings Romulus to Tarquinius Superbus instruct and caution the reader. Some of the woodcuts including the Death of Lucretia were made for this edition. Already in the midst of translating Machiavelli's commentary on the text Discourses on the First Decade of Livy for Montmorency Gohory 1520-76 acceded to this additional request from his patron. Two copies in American libraries. ¶Brun Le Livre illustré en France au XVIe siècle 314; Bouchereaux "Recherches bibliographiques sur Gilles Corrozet" in Bulletin du Bibliophile 1955 27551; Schweiger Handbuch der classischen Bibliographie. Lateinische Schriftsteller I: 548 Angelier issue; BP16_113235. Both volumes are in good condition light browning loss of a few sorts to the last leaf of Xenophon and Livy's title caused by adhesion ownership inscription of Marcus Fugger 1529-97; Karl & Faber Bibliophile Kostbarkeiten.des.Marcus Fugger 1933 383 stamp and library marks of his descendant Ernst Graf von Oettingen-Wallerstein 1594-1670 from the library of Jean Bourdel 1890-1971. [É. Groulleau for himself, J. Longis and] V. Sertenas unknown