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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 217

POLISH-LITHUANIAN BINDING
LOPEZ (LODOVICO) Instructorii conscientiae... Prima [-secunda] pars, 2 vol., Lyon, Pierre Landry, 1587-1588

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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POLISH-LITHUANIAN BINDING

LOPEZ (LODOVICO) Instructorii conscientiae... Prima [-secunda] pars, 2 vol., edited by Pierre Mathieu, woodcut device on titles, woodcut initials and ornaments, light toning to opening leaves, contemporary blind- and gilt-stamped calf over bevelled wooden boards, upper covers with a frame of single fillets and a cable roll enclosing a central large oval arabesque blocked in gilt, with 6 large and 4 smaller ornamental devices, with wording "Instructorii. Pars I[-II]", the lower covers decorated with repeated impression of a Polish "Royal Heads" roll [see footnote], brass catches, traces of leather straps fastened to lower covers, spines with 4 compartments within raised bands, blue-green wash edges, neatly restored at spine ends [Adams L1470], preserved in purpose-made morocco-backed book box by James Brockman, 8vo, Lyon, Pierre Landry, 1587-1588

Footnotes

SIXTEENTH CENTURY POLISH-LITHUANIAN BINDING, the covers blindstamped with the book's title, and the distinctive Polish "Royal Heads" roll. Incorporating medallion portraits of King Stefan Batory, King Zygmont Vasa, and Queen Kates the roll commemorates the election of King Stefan Batory as King of the Union of Poland and Lithuania in 1569, and his succession by Zygmont Vasa in 1587.

Provenance: "Leonardus Palefricius emptus 8lt 8s.", early purchase note on titles; Father Marianus, Franciscan Convent of Sokołów, inscription dated 1600 on titles.

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