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THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE KENNETH JOHN HEWETT

K.J. Hewett (1919-1994) was a renowned London dealer in ethnographic art and antiquities. Other books from his library were offered in these rooms on 21 March 2018.
Lot 215

PIGHIUS (STEPHANUS VINDIUS)
Annales magistratuum provinciar[um] S.P.Q.R. ab urbe condita, Antwerp, ex officina Plantiniana, Jan Moretus, 1599 [colophon: 1598]

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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PIGHIUS (STEPHANUS VINDIUS)

Annales magistratuum provinciar[um] S.P.Q.R. ab urbe condita, engraved architectural title-page, 2 engraved illustrations in the text, printer's device on final leaf, 2 small holes resulting from ink obliteration of old ink name in blank areas of title, approximately 20 leaves nibbled at upper or lower margin, light dampstain at upper margin of some leaves, contemporary Antwerp binding of polished calf gilt, sides with panels enclosing large central arabesque and cornerpieces, spine with leaf-bud and fleuron tool in six compartments, old ink lettering in 2 compartments, neatly repaired at extremities of spine and corners, some abrasions to sides (revealing boards in a few places), vellum sewing guards cut from a fourteenth century liturgical manuscript, preserved in crushed brown morocco-backed solander box by James Brockman, folio (365 x 230mm.), Antwerp, ex officina Plantiniana, Jan Moretus, 1599 [colophon: 1598]

Footnotes

Provenance: ?Henri de Bouillon (1555-1623), presentation inscription "A Messire Le Mareschael Baron de Bouelan" in blank lower margin of title; Castle Wildenstein, partly obliterated seventeenth century note mentioning the siege of "Castelli Vildestein" on 15 June 1634; F. Bouchard, inscription on title; K.J. Hewett, bookplate at rear.

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