M.T. Ciceronis Tusculanarum qvaestionvm lib. V, ad vetustiss[imi] exe[m]plaria manuscripta, nunc summa diligentia correcti & emedati: ac commentariis clariss[imi] virorum Philippi Beroaldi, & Ioachimi Camerarij: deinde Erasmi Roterodami, Pauli Manutij, & Petri Victorij variis lectionibus & annotationibus illustrati. Quibus nunc primum accessit doctissimi cuiusdam viri commentarius, cum annotationibus Leodegarij à Quercu.

Accession number:

PML 195853

Author:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

Published:

Parisiis : Ex typographia T. Richardi, 1558.

Credit:

Purchased on the T. Kimball Brooker Bibliography Fund, 2012.

Description:

4 p.ℓ., 272 ff., 15 ℓ. : ill. ; 23 cm (4to)

Notes:

Signatures: *⁴, a-z⁴, A-Z⁴, Aaa-Ccc⁴.
Quarto paper (22.6 x 16.5 cm).
Engraved title page.
PML copy with tear from outer edge to f. z1. Some discoloring to pastedowns and fly leaves from turn-ins.
PML copy with letter laid in from the Libraire de la Bibliothèque Royale, Paris to the Duke of Sutherland offering him six de Thou bindings, 31 October 1835: "We have the honor to send you the two volumes which you chose this morning, and we include at the same time the note of the six volumes of de Thou, of which you enquired the price. You know, Milord, that the examples are much more sought after than the others and as a result more expensive, we have given you the most modest price possible." Paper is 24.3 x 36.6 cm, folded 3 times, with laurel wreath watermark in center.

Binding:

Early seventeenth-century French red morocco on 5 bands (23.4 x 17.5 cm) with triple gilt filet on boards for Jacques-August de Thou. Arms of de Thou and his second wife, Gasparde de la Chastre (married ca. 1602), on top and bottom boards; monogram and de Thou gadfly on spine panels. Embroidered endbands. All edges gilt. Arms of George, 2nd Duke of Sutherland added to top board above de Thou.

Provenance:

Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617), arms (with his second wife Gasparde de la Chastre) on top and bottom boards, monogram on spine, after ca. 1602, Catalogus Bibliothecae Thuanae, II: 8-9; [Jean Jacques Charron, marquis de Menars (1644-1718), purchased de Thou's library in 1680; at Charron's death, his library passed to Cardinal Armand Gaston de Rohan, Bishop of Strasbourg (1674-1749); the library was then inherited by his nephew, Charles de Rohan, Prince of Soubise (1715-1787) and sold in 1789; this book is not in the 1788 Soubise catalogue and must have been sold from either Charron's or Cardinal Rohan's library]; Franc̜ois-Michel de Verthamon, marquis de Bréau (d. 1738), armorial bookplate on front pastedown; George Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland (1786-1861), arms on top board; Hans Fürstenberg, 'ex museo' book label on front pastedown; Martin Breslauer, cat. 106 (1979?), no. 56; John David Drummond, 17th Earl of Perth (1907-2002); his sale, Christie's (London), 16-17 Nov. 2003(?); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased on the T. Kimball Brooker Bibliography Fund from Maggs Bros., Nov. 2012.

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Classification:

Binding Collection

Genres:

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Armorial bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books