Live auction - Lot 1084
[Armorial binding]
Historiarum ex Pompeio Trogo lib. XLIIII.
Amsterdam, G. Caesius [W.J. Blaeu], 1621
Hammer price: €
240
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
24mo: 239 (front. incl.) pp. (browning, pale water stain).
Contemp. blond calf, double gilt fillet frame and central coat of arms on boards, gilt repeated heraldic tool on spine with raised bands, red spr. edges (turn-ins missing, joints part. split, corners used).
Pocket ed. orn. with an allegoric front. incl. sphere mark.
Ref. STCN 081638027. - Not in Simoni.
Bound with: Quintus Curtius, Rufus - De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni. Ibid., G. Janssonius [W.J. Blaeu], 1621. 264 (front. incl.) pp.. Front. orn. with the medallion portrait of Alexander the Great and sphere mark. Ref. STCN 082032580. - Not in Simoni.
Prov. François-Auguste de Thou (1604-1642), elder son of the famous bibliophile Jacques-Auguste and of Gasparde de La Chastre (supralibros; ref. Olivier 217). A friend of Cinq-Mars, he was involved in the latter's plot against Cardinal Richelieu and sentenced to death.