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Auction archive: Lot number 63

GODEAU, Antoine (1605-1672). Oeuvres Chrestiennes... Seconde edition. Paris: Jean Camusat, 1633.

Auction 01.05.1996
1 May 1996
Estimate
£9,000 - £12,000
ca. US$13,634 - US$18,179
Price realised:
£17,250
ca. US$26,133
Auction archive: Lot number 63

GODEAU, Antoine (1605-1672). Oeuvres Chrestiennes... Seconde edition. Paris: Jean Camusat, 1633.

Auction 01.05.1996
1 May 1996
Estimate
£9,000 - £12,000
ca. US$13,634 - US$18,179
Price realised:
£17,250
ca. US$26,133
Beschreibung:

GODEAU, Antoine (1605-1672). Oeuvres Chrestiennes... Seconde edition. Paris: Jean Camusat, 1633. 8° (180 x 115mm). Ruled in red. Engraved ornamental title by Daniel Rabel CONTEMPORARY PARISIAN BINDING BOUND FOR NOËL DE BULLION: red morocco finely tooled in gilt to a close fanfare design, each of the 39 compartments containing Bullion's mirror monogram, the central 39th compartment containing a larger variant of the monogram, all within an outer narrow dentelle border, spine in six compartments with raised bands, each containing the monogram within a cartouche, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, g.e. (neat repairs to head and foot of spine), modern cloth box. Provenance : Noël de Bullion, Marquis de Gallardon (d.1670, binding); Abbé Salle (incription dated 1809); Sullivan family (armorial bookplate); Lindeboom (armorial bookplate, 2nd sale, 1925, lot 213). AN IMPORTANT EXAMPLE OF THE PARISIAN BINDER'S ART DURING THE REIGN OF LOUIS XIII, PROBABLY FROM THE ATELIER OF MACÉ RUETTE. Two tools on the present binding are definitely from the Macé atelier: the outer roll on the covers, and the pair of volute tools which are also employed on the covers. Macé (1584-1638) was apprenticed to Dominique Salis in 1598, opened his own atelier in 1606, from 1629-1634 he was 'administrateur de la Confrèrie des libraires'. At the death of Clovis Eve in 1634 he was appointed 'Relieur du Roi'; he seems to have stopped binding in about 1638. Only one other binding for Noël de Bullion, executed to the same design, is known: the 3 vol. Seneca in French (Paris, 1637) in the Dutuit Collection (109 in the catalogue), with an inscription which confirms Bullion as the subject of the monogram. Godeau, a prolific author in many different genres, first came to prominence as the nain de la princesse Julie . Richelieu (to whom the present work is dedicated) was also the dedicatee of his paraphrase of the psalm Benedicite omnia opera Domini Domino , and, when appointing him bishop of Grasse in 1636, is reputed to have remarked "Vous me donnez Benedicite , et moi je vous donnerai Grasse". He also presented him with one of the first forty seats at the newly-founded Académie Française.

Auction archive: Lot number 63
Auction:
Datum:
1 May 1996
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

GODEAU, Antoine (1605-1672). Oeuvres Chrestiennes... Seconde edition. Paris: Jean Camusat, 1633. 8° (180 x 115mm). Ruled in red. Engraved ornamental title by Daniel Rabel CONTEMPORARY PARISIAN BINDING BOUND FOR NOËL DE BULLION: red morocco finely tooled in gilt to a close fanfare design, each of the 39 compartments containing Bullion's mirror monogram, the central 39th compartment containing a larger variant of the monogram, all within an outer narrow dentelle border, spine in six compartments with raised bands, each containing the monogram within a cartouche, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, g.e. (neat repairs to head and foot of spine), modern cloth box. Provenance : Noël de Bullion, Marquis de Gallardon (d.1670, binding); Abbé Salle (incription dated 1809); Sullivan family (armorial bookplate); Lindeboom (armorial bookplate, 2nd sale, 1925, lot 213). AN IMPORTANT EXAMPLE OF THE PARISIAN BINDER'S ART DURING THE REIGN OF LOUIS XIII, PROBABLY FROM THE ATELIER OF MACÉ RUETTE. Two tools on the present binding are definitely from the Macé atelier: the outer roll on the covers, and the pair of volute tools which are also employed on the covers. Macé (1584-1638) was apprenticed to Dominique Salis in 1598, opened his own atelier in 1606, from 1629-1634 he was 'administrateur de la Confrèrie des libraires'. At the death of Clovis Eve in 1634 he was appointed 'Relieur du Roi'; he seems to have stopped binding in about 1638. Only one other binding for Noël de Bullion, executed to the same design, is known: the 3 vol. Seneca in French (Paris, 1637) in the Dutuit Collection (109 in the catalogue), with an inscription which confirms Bullion as the subject of the monogram. Godeau, a prolific author in many different genres, first came to prominence as the nain de la princesse Julie . Richelieu (to whom the present work is dedicated) was also the dedicatee of his paraphrase of the psalm Benedicite omnia opera Domini Domino , and, when appointing him bishop of Grasse in 1636, is reputed to have remarked "Vous me donnez Benedicite , et moi je vous donnerai Grasse". He also presented him with one of the first forty seats at the newly-founded Académie Française.

Auction archive: Lot number 63
Auction:
Datum:
1 May 1996
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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