Object details
Accession number
1.b.1.48
Primary Creator
Full title
Les Amours
Creation Date
1553-1555
Language
French
Publication Place
Paris
Description
1 vol., [14] + 284 pages, ill., 8°
Provenance
Collection of a De Marizy, France, 16th century.
Collection of the French lawyer Jean-Charles de Perthes (died 1767), Crépy-en-Valois, 1754.
By descent to de Perthes' great-nephew Adrien Delahante (1815-1884), Paris, 1829. (binding commissioned from Hardy)
Collection of the book collector Dr. David Hunt, Boston.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner at the Hunt sale through the auctioneers and appraisers Charles F. Libbie & Co., Boston for $66 on 20 November 189, lot 2572.
Marks
Inscribed in pen and crossed out by a later hand (on title page of Les amours): "De Marizy"
Inscribed in pen (on title page of Les amours): "Les Amours de Ronsard Vand.ois / Deperthes le j[eune] licentié es loix 1754"
Afffixed (verso, front endpaper): Excerpt from Catalogue XXXIX de Ludwig Rosenthal's Antiquariat à Munich (Bavière). Livres rares et importants en tous genres (1880s), no. 1079 (describes Les Ouevres 1560) .
Affixed (recto, first fly leaf): Excerpt from Hunt sale catalogue, lot no. 2572
Inscribed in pencil (recto, second flyleaf): "reliure de Hardy / dorure de Marius Michel"
Inscribed in pencil (verso, second flyleaf): "Superbe exemplaire non lavé conteniant...[lists editions]...Les portraits de Ronsard et de sa maitresse sont ?sinvant Popillon de Jean Cousin"
Affixed: bookplate of Isabella Stewart Gardner
Enlcosed: typed bibliograhic description
Dimensions
16.8 x 11.4 x 3.5 cm (6 5/8 x 4 1/2 x 1 3/8 in.)
Display Media
Printed ink on paper
Web Commentary
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Permanent Gallery Location
Long Gallery
Bibliography
Adrien Delahante. Une famille de finance au XVIIIe siècle: mémoires, correspondances et papiers de famille réunis et mis en ordre. 2 ed. (Paris, 1881), pp. 144-45.
Charles F. Libbie and Co. Catalogue of the Entire Private Library Belonging to a Well Known Boston Collector, Forming a Magnificent Collection of Rarities in All Departments of Literature (Boston, 17-21 November 1891), p. 234, lot 2572.
Isabella Stewart Gardner. A Choice of Books from the Library of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fenway Court (Boston, 1906), p. 58.
Isabella Stewart Gardner. A Choice of Manuscripts and Bookbindings from the Library of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fenway Court (Boston, 1922), p. 75.
Rebecca Karo. Short-Title Catalogue of Highlights from the Book Collection in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Unpublished manuscript. (Boston, 1970s), cat. 80-83.
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