Plato
Omnia opera tralatione Marsilii Ficini
£1,197
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
emendatione, et ad Graecum codicem collatione Simonis Grynaei, summa diligentia repurgata. Lyon: apud Antonium Vincentium, 1548. Folio in sixes (33 x 20cm), later mottled sheep, sprinkled edges, printer's woodcut device to title-page, main text printed with roman type in double column, title-page slightly marked and with old interlinear ownership inscription, verso with engraved bookplate of George Lockhart of Carnwath (1681-1731), ‘One of the most famous Scottish Jacobites of his day’ (History of Parliament), binding rubbed, worn in places, very small worm-hole throughout text, short worm-track to gutter of first few quires, damp-stain to head of last few leaves, a few other marks [USTC 150088; not in Adams];
Pliny the Elder. Historiae mundi libri triginta septem. Lyon: ex officina Godefridi et Marcelli Beringorum fratrum, 1548. Folio (31.5 x 19.8cm), later calf (possibly Scottish), dolphin tools gilt to spine compartments, printer's woodcut device to title-page, main text printed with italic type in double column, retaining medial blank 3c6, title-page with inscriptions ‘Liber Dm Davidis Lindesii Edzellii, ex dono M. Georgii Patersonii verbi Dei ministri religiosissimi',‘Liber Jacobi Edzell’ and ‘McKay ex dono Alexandi Brown […]’ (in chronological order), additional ownership inscription ‘Liber Ja. McKay’ and doodling dated 1753 to initial blank, loss to head of spine, front free endpaper torn, initial blank creased, title-page slightly marked and with shallow chip to fore margin, intermittent damp-staining in gutter, quire Q loose at head, small tear in a8 [Adams P1571; USTC 150033];
and 2 others (Pedro Juan de Belluga, Speculum principum … cum additionibus et commentariis D. Camilli Borelli., Brussels: typis et sumptibus Francisci Vivieni, 1655, folio, contemporary mottled calf, engraved additional title-page showing a prince gazing into a mirror, leather on spine split; and Mezeray, A General Chronological History of France, 1683, folio, contemporary calf, engraved frontispiece, text not collated) (4)
Provenance
Sir James Gordon, Baronet (1779-1843), of Letterfourie, Moray, Scotland (Plato and Pliny the Elder each his engraved bookplate to each volume, showing Letterfourie, built 1783 by Robert Adam in the background; Belluga with his ownership inscription over the earlier bookplate of George Assiotti; Mezeray unmarked but also ex Letterfourie).