17th Sep, 2024 10:00
The September Auctions 2024
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Machiavelli (Niccolò di Bernardo dei) Historie di Nicolo Machiavelli
Machiavelli (Niccolò di Bernardo dei) Historie di Nicolo Machiavelli, Venice: Gabriel Giolitode Ferrari e Fratelli, 1650, 16mo, 18th century vellum with gilt tooling to spines, 3 volumes, marbled page edges and endpapers, each volume bearing the bookplate for Lord Sandys, each inscribed to title page 'Roger Twysden 1632', historiated initials, volume one with printers device to last page and dated 1651, volume two appended with tables and two woodcut plates of city planning, printers device and dated 1651, volume 2 with printers device to past page dated 1650 (3)
Provenance:Ombersley Court, Worcestershire
Footnote:The inscribed owner is identified as Sir Roger Twysden, 2nd Baronet (1597 – 1672) English historian and politician of Roydon Hall, Kent.
Chorley’s Auctioneers is to offer The Ombersley Court Library collected by the English aristocratic family of Sandys across five centuries.
Proceeds of the sale will will be donated to the Hartlebury Castle Preservation Trust (Charity 1127871).
Hartlebury Castle is a historic Worcestershire estate first given to Bishop Aelhun in 855AD. Home of the Bishops of Worcester until 2007. it has a longstanding connection with the Sandys family throughout its history.
Sold for £1,100
Machiavelli (Niccolò di Bernardo dei) Historie di Nicolo Machiavelli, Venice: Gabriel Giolitode Ferrari e Fratelli, 1650, 16mo, 18th century vellum with gilt tooling to spines, 3 volumes, marbled page edges and endpapers, each volume bearing the bookplate for Lord Sandys, each inscribed to title page 'Roger Twysden 1632', historiated initials, volume one with printers device to last page and dated 1651, volume two appended with tables and two woodcut plates of city planning, printers device and dated 1651, volume 2 with printers device to past page dated 1650 (3)
Ombersley Court, Worcestershire
The inscribed owner is identified as Sir Roger Twysden, 2nd Baronet (1597 – 1672) English historian and politician of Roydon Hall, Kent.
THE OMBERSLEY COURT LIBRARY
Chorley’s Auctioneers is to offer The Ombersley Court Library collected by the English aristocratic family of Sandys across five centuries.
Proceeds of the sale will will be donated to the Hartlebury Castle Preservation Trust (Charity 1127871).
Hartlebury Castle is a historic Worcestershire estate first given to Bishop Aelhun in 855AD. Home of the Bishops of Worcester until 2007. it has a longstanding connection with the Sandys family throughout its history.
Good condition with darkening to top edge, minor wear and smudges to binding, pages very lightly toned, not collated
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