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Auction archive: Lot number 267

NICOLAY, Nicolas de, seigneur d'Arfeville (1517-1583) Les Qu...

Estimate
US$6,000 - US$8,000
Price realised:
US$21,250
Auction archive: Lot number 267

NICOLAY, Nicolas de, seigneur d'Arfeville (1517-1583) Les Qu...

Estimate
US$6,000 - US$8,000
Price realised:
US$21,250
Beschreibung:

NICOLAY, Nicolas de, seigneur d'Arfeville (1517-1583). Les Quatre Premiers Livres des Navigations et Peregrinations Orientales . Lyon: Guillaume Rouillé, 1568.
NICOLAY, Nicolas de, seigneur d'Arfeville (1517-1583). Les Quatre Premiers Livres des Navigations et Peregrinations Orientales . Lyon: Guillaume Rouillé, 1568. 2 o (323 x 220 mm). Cancel slip on verso of *3, r3v and x2r with ink eradications over plate descriptions incorrectly printed as in the Harvard copy described by Mortimer. Letterpress title within elaborate woodcut border, woodcut head-piece and initial to dedication, 60 engraved plates attributed to Louis Danet after Nicolay. (Plates 24 and 44 slightly browned, last three plates with pale dampstaining in upper right corner.) 17th-century mottled calf, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in two and decorated in four, top panel with crowned initials of Frederick III (some minor wear at extremities). Provenance : FREDERICK III (1609-1670), King of Denmark (arms on binding); acquired from Lathrop C. Harper, 1972. KING FREDERICK III'S COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, second issue. The first issue is dated 1567 on the title but is otherwise identical to the second. Nicolay was the royal geographer sent by Henri II to Constantinople to join d'Aramont's embassy in 1551. The illustrations are claimed by Nicolay as his own work, and Baudrier assigns them to Louis Danet of whom nothing else is known. This series of engravings has been described as the finest and most influential pictorial introduction of Turkish characters and costumes. Mortimer notes that in the Harvard copy the engravings are variously bound, some mounted on the blank versos, and others pasted back-to-back as plates. In the present copy, all of the engravings are bound separately. Nicolay accompanied Gabriel d'Aramont, French diplomat and ambassador, on a mission to Constantionople in 1551. While there he wrote this account and sketched the remarkable figures of Levantine men and women in costume. The figures depict Greeks and Arabs, Turks and Armenians, Malteses and Moors, and the plate after p. 105 depicts a Jewish physician. The plate following p.113 of a Qalandrite, member of a dervish fraternity, is often mutilated by readers objecting to its obscenity. This French edition was reprinted and translated into Italian, German, Dutch and English, but only this edition contains the engravings by Danet. This edition also includes the first printing of the 3-page "Elégie" by Pierre Ronsard, dedicated to Nicolay, and not recorded by Seymour de Ricci in his catalogue of Ronsard's writings. Baudrier IX,p.318; Brunet IV:67; Cicognara 1730; Colas 2200 (1567 edition); Mortimer French 386 (with the additional plate facing p.144).

Auction archive: Lot number 267
Auction:
Datum:
9 Apr 2013 - 10 Apr 2013
Auction house:
Christie's
9-10 April 2013, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

NICOLAY, Nicolas de, seigneur d'Arfeville (1517-1583). Les Quatre Premiers Livres des Navigations et Peregrinations Orientales . Lyon: Guillaume Rouillé, 1568.
NICOLAY, Nicolas de, seigneur d'Arfeville (1517-1583). Les Quatre Premiers Livres des Navigations et Peregrinations Orientales . Lyon: Guillaume Rouillé, 1568. 2 o (323 x 220 mm). Cancel slip on verso of *3, r3v and x2r with ink eradications over plate descriptions incorrectly printed as in the Harvard copy described by Mortimer. Letterpress title within elaborate woodcut border, woodcut head-piece and initial to dedication, 60 engraved plates attributed to Louis Danet after Nicolay. (Plates 24 and 44 slightly browned, last three plates with pale dampstaining in upper right corner.) 17th-century mottled calf, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in two and decorated in four, top panel with crowned initials of Frederick III (some minor wear at extremities). Provenance : FREDERICK III (1609-1670), King of Denmark (arms on binding); acquired from Lathrop C. Harper, 1972. KING FREDERICK III'S COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, second issue. The first issue is dated 1567 on the title but is otherwise identical to the second. Nicolay was the royal geographer sent by Henri II to Constantinople to join d'Aramont's embassy in 1551. The illustrations are claimed by Nicolay as his own work, and Baudrier assigns them to Louis Danet of whom nothing else is known. This series of engravings has been described as the finest and most influential pictorial introduction of Turkish characters and costumes. Mortimer notes that in the Harvard copy the engravings are variously bound, some mounted on the blank versos, and others pasted back-to-back as plates. In the present copy, all of the engravings are bound separately. Nicolay accompanied Gabriel d'Aramont, French diplomat and ambassador, on a mission to Constantionople in 1551. While there he wrote this account and sketched the remarkable figures of Levantine men and women in costume. The figures depict Greeks and Arabs, Turks and Armenians, Malteses and Moors, and the plate after p. 105 depicts a Jewish physician. The plate following p.113 of a Qalandrite, member of a dervish fraternity, is often mutilated by readers objecting to its obscenity. This French edition was reprinted and translated into Italian, German, Dutch and English, but only this edition contains the engravings by Danet. This edition also includes the first printing of the 3-page "Elégie" by Pierre Ronsard, dedicated to Nicolay, and not recorded by Seymour de Ricci in his catalogue of Ronsard's writings. Baudrier IX,p.318; Brunet IV:67; Cicognara 1730; Colas 2200 (1567 edition); Mortimer French 386 (with the additional plate facing p.144).

Auction archive: Lot number 267
Auction:
Datum:
9 Apr 2013 - 10 Apr 2013
Auction house:
Christie's
9-10 April 2013, New York, Rockefeller Center
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