Savonarola | three works in a tan morocco binding for De Thou, 1536-1564, Watson-Taylor & Heber copy

Girolamo Savonarola, Johannes Hasler and Johannes Brenz

A volume containing 3 works in a tan morocco binding for de Thou, comprising:

GIROLAMO SAVONAROLA. Dialogus inter spiritum & animam nunc primum in lucem prodiens, cuius titulus Solatium itineris mei. Genoa: Antonio Bellone, (22 February) 1536, woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials

JOHANNES HASLER. Sententia... super facto Nectarii... circa sublationem confessionis, praesentibus Concilii Tridenti, exhibita. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1564, woodcut printer's device on title-page

JOHANNES BRENZ. De administranda pie republica, ac subditorum erga magistratus justa obedientia libellus. [Schwäbish Hall]: Peter Frentz, 1551, woodcut initials, woodcut printer's device on final verso

3 works in one volume, 12mo (140 x 93mm.), late sixteenth-century tan morocco gilt with the arms of Jacques-Auguste de Thou as a bachelor [Olivier 216, fers 2 and 3], spine gilt in compartments with de Thou's monogram, plain edges, shelfmark in ink on upper cover

LITERATURE

Edit16 32092; Voet 1302; VD16 B7479 (listing 4 copies)

PROVENANCE

Jacques-Auguste de Thou, owned by him before his first marriage in 1587; [presumably Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise (1715-1787, who inherited the bulk of the de Thou library), his shelfmark in ink on upper cover, but not found in the 1789 sale of his library]; George Watson Taylor (1771-1841), sale, part the second, Evans, 14 April 1823, lot 638, £1 to Thorpe, also noted in manuscript on the flyleaf (probably in the hand of); Richard Heber, sale, part VI, Evans, 8 April 1835, lot 3173, 10s-6d, to Thorpe; Pietro Ginori-Conti, armorial bookplate

The previous lot in the Watson Taylor sale was another collection of Savonarola's works, also in a binding for de Thou, and also subsequently in Heber's library.