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Opera, a Iosepho Scaligero, & Elia Vineto denuo recognita, disposita & variorum notis illustrata. S.d. [Geneva], Jacob Stoer, 1588. 2 parts in one volume in-16, havana morocco, border of palms and foliage framing a series of 14 oval medallions each containing a flower, arranged around a central medallion, the one on the first plate containing a coat of arms and the one on the second a shield with a three-flowered lily surrounded by the motto expactata non eludet, spine decorated with the same decoration with the name of the author in the middle medallion, gilt edges (Binding of the time). Edition from the presses of Jacob Stoer, who arrived in Geneva at the age of 17, worked with Crespin and then with Rivery before settling down in his own name in 1568, until his death in 1610. Title placed in an attractive woodcut frame decorated with figures of the harpist king and two musicians. The second part, in separate pagination with a special title page, contains the comments of Joseph Scaliger. A fine copy, ruled, in a charming binding with the coat of arms of Pietro Duodo (1554-1611), ambassador of the Republic of Venice at the court of Henri IV from 1594 to 1597. This bibliophile had a portable library of which all the books (about 150 small volumes acquired during his stay in Paris) were bound in the same way, only the color of the morocco varied according to the themes: olive green or havana was reserved for works of literature, lemon for medicine and botany, and red for history, philosophy, theology and law. These bindings were once attributed to the Eve workshop and it was long thought, because of the presence of a daisy among the characteristic floral decoration, that they were made for Queen Marguerite de Valois. From the Charles Van der Elst library (II, 1988, n°16). Minimal rubbing to one of the spines, otherwise the binding has retained its full lustre.
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