| Arms of Marco Antonio Foscarini, doge of Venice, 1695/?6-1763. Noted historian and bibliographer. “He left a rich and very select library of books and manuscripts, which was sold after the fall of Venice in 1799. The Emperor of Austria purchased the collection of manuscripts for 10,800 livres, and they are now in the imperial library at Vienna. A catalogue of the historical part of the collection, consisting of nearly 400 manuscripts, which were among the materials by the aid of which Foscarini compiled his history of Venetian literature, is given at tho end of [his]Storia Arcana (published post-humously, Florence, 1843)” [C.Knight, Biography:or, Third division of “The English encyclopedia” (London, 1867), II, col. 961-962]. ❧ Erizzo, Sebastiano. Espositione di m. Sebastiano Erizzo nelle tre canzoni di m. Francesco Petrarca, chiamate le tre sorelle. Nuouamente mandata in luce da m. Lodouico Dolce.(Venice: Andrea Arriuabene, 1561.) Call number (Ex)3134.66. ❧ Another example of a Foscarini armorial binding is in the Graphic Arts Collection: Barozzi, Pietro. De modo bene moriendi. (Venice: in Aedibus Io. Antonii & Fratrum de Sabio, 1531). Call number (GAX) 2004-3555N |
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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Claude Crespigny of the South Sea House
| Claude Crespigny of the South Sea House [This post first published in December 2011. Revised May 2013] ❧ Armorial bookplate, signature, crest, cipher, inscription. ❧ Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny (1706-1782). At death, he left his library to his great nephew, Hugh Reveley (1772-1851) whose signature is in pencil on recto of the free endpaper. ❧ On spine is Crespigny’s cipher (interlaced C’s) and crest (On a chapeau, gules, turned up, ermine, a enhit arm erect, holding a broad sword, proper). ❧ Inscribed on pastedown: “This book was given me by the Hon.ble John Spencer Esq.r A.o 1745.” ❧ Johann Heinrich Cohausen (1665-1750). Hermippus redivivus : or, The sage’s triumph over old age and the grave. Wherein, a method is laid down for prolonging the life and vigour of man. Including a commentary upon an antient inscription, in which this great secret is revealed; supported by numerous authorities. The whole interspersed with a great variety of remarkable, and well attested relations. London : Printed for J. Nourse, 1744. Call number: (Ex)3437.93.345.6 |
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Thomas Frewen, of Lincoln’s Inn, in the County of Middlesex, Esqr., 1711.
| Bookplate: Thomas Frewen, of Lincoln’s Inn, in the County of Middlesex, Esqr., 1711. Citation: Franks 11412. [(Arms. Frewen quartering Scott, Longhurst and Wolverstone.] ❧ This is Thomas Frewen (1687-1738), according to ESTC T132060, copy held at Ham House. Source of this bookplate: Call number (Ex)3826.36.333.14q. [Fables of Aesop, London, 1699] |
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Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829)
| Bookplate and bookstamp of Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829). More than 40 of his books in the Library, many including with a presentation inscription from the work’s author. Evidently this plate (“The Honourable Francis Henry Egerton, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, &c, &c, &c”) dates from his years in Paris, after 1802. A number of books also carry the red stamp ‘Ashridge Library,’ perhaps indicating that these came to England and were kept at Ashridge House, the Egerton family seat in Hertfordshire. To find these 40+ books, search in the main catalogue: “Bridgewater, Francis Henry Egerton, Earl of, 1756-1829, former owner.” |
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1752 Irish prize binding
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Prize bookplate from Trinity College, Dublin to William Stopford, presented by Brabazon Disney, at the beginning of Michaelmas Term, 1752. Armorial stamp of Trinity College, Dublin, on front and back covers. According to William B. Todd in “Note 571 Academic Prize Books” (Book Collector 49:3 (Autumn, 2000) p. 442-444, William Stopford in the same year was also awarded as a prize book: Juvenal & Persius, Dublin, 1746. (Illustrated in Prof. Todd’s 1961 catalogue Prize Books) Terence. Comoediæ. (Dublin: Typographia Academiæ, 1745) Call number (Ex) Item 6201299 |
 
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Three 18th century Irish bindings attributed to Joseph Leathley’s binder
| Adjacent at right is entry 49 in J. McDonnell and P. Healy, Gold-tooled Bookbindings Commissioned by Trinity College Dublin in the Eighteenth Century (Leixlip, 1987); there illustrated in black and white. |
 Horace [ed. J. Hawkey] Dublin, 1745. Call number (PTT) 2865.1745 c.1. [John Boyle, Earl of Orrery (1707-1762), former owner.] |
 Horace [ed. J. Hawkey] Dublin, 1745. Call number (PTT) 2865.1745 c.3. [Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773) former owner.]
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 Juvenal [ed. J. Hawkey] Dublin, 1746. Call number (ExV) 2873.1746
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Early 18th century cottage-roof style
| Early 18th century cottage-roof style binding covering Horace, Carminum libri quinque [edited by George Wade] (London: William Bowyer, 1731). According to the ESTC, Bowyer’s records show 24 copies printed in quarto, and 250 in octavo. This is one of the 24 quartos. A small capital ‘D’ in iron gall ink is at center of the verso of the titlepage. Bookplate of George John Warren Vernon, 5th Baron Vernon (1803-1866) on front pastedown.. Acquired by donor Robert W. Patterson from Maggs before 1921. Call number (PTT) 2865.321.231. |  |
Marcas de Fuego ❧ Convento de San Cosme y San Damián de Puebla (Mexico)
| According to the Catálogo Colectivo de Marcas de Fuego, these are “marcas de fuego” of the Convento de San Cosme y San Damián de Puebla (Mexico; Mercidarian Order) See http://goo.gl/F8QKZ and http://goo.gl/x9jxs for details. Call number (Ex) 5959.612q Acknowledgement to Madison C. Bush, Class of 2014, for making this identification. |
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Stamped with the arms of Graf Hans Günther von Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (1532-1586)
| Arms surrounded with inscription: HANS GUNTTER • DER • VIER • GRAFFEN • DES • REICHS • GRAFFE • ZU SCHWARCZBURG • HERRE • ZU • ARNSTADT • SUNDERSHAUS • UND LEUCH ❧ Edges gauffered and gilt. Clasps. ❧ Call number (Ex)BX8069.K57 1584q ❧ Timotheus Kirchner, Gründliche warhafftige Historia von der Augspurgischen Confession (Leipzig: Defner, 1584.) |
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