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A PARIS, L. Blaublom pour Jaques Kerver, aux deux Cochetz, Rue S. Jaques, 1546.. FIRST FRENCH EDITION 1546. Translated from the Italian. Folio in sixes, approximately 345 x 215 mm, 13½ x 8ÂĽ inches, 181 woodcuts of various sizes, 13 full page, large arabesque initials, leaves: [vi], 1-157, [1] (numbered on rectos only), the initials "M" on leaf C6 recto and "F" on leaf D3 verso, were originally printed from crible blocks but arabesque initials have been tipped in over them, modern full morocco binding, gilt lettering to spine and upper cover, blind floral decoration between raised bands to spine, tiny gilt fish to centre of lower cover, blind decoration to covers, new cream endpapers, housed in a slipcase of marbled paper covered board with leather surround at opening. TITLE PAGE AND LAST PAGE (COLOPHON), ARE VERY GOOD FACSIMILES ON OLD PAPER (a pencil note on first pastedown states that it was purchased from Quaritch, London booksellers, in 1977, and that the facsimiles were done in line block and… Read More

Paris, Jacques Kerver, 1561.
Folio of (6) ll., 157 ll. illustrated with 181 woodcuts including 13 full-page, (1) leaf with Kerver's mark. Tiny tear in the corner of l. 49, marginal waterstain on few ll. more visible on the last 5 ll. Full marbled sheepskin, triple blind-stamped fillet around the covers, ribbed spine decorated, red edges. Binding from the 18th century.

333 x 220 mm.
"The most important of the three editions given by Kerver of the first translation by Jean Martin, of the most beautiful and most famous Italian book of the Renaissance, published in Venice in 1499 by Aldus." (Pierre Berès).
Brunet, IV, 779 ; Harvard, French, n°147 ; Jean Martin, Un traducteur au temps de François Ier et de Henri II (Cahiers V.-L, Saulnier, 16), Paris, 1999 ; D. Cordellier, Luca Penni, un disciple de Raphael à Fontainebleau, Paris, 2012, pp. 111-113.
It is illustrated with 181 woodcuts including 13 full-page.

The illustration of the beautiful engraved title was recently attributed by Dominique… Read More