[THOU, Jacques Auguste de]. FABRICIUS, Johann

Hemerologium ex Iacobi Augusti Thuani historiarum operibus confectum : ut compendium horundem sit atque Index [Hemerologium made from the historical works of Jacques Auguste de Thou : collection and index]. Frankfurt, Johann Schmidlin, 1627 DE THOU WITH THE FIGURE OF PEIRESC: A SUPERB COPY. A VERY FINE COPY OF NICOLAS-CLAUDE FABRI DE PEIRESC BOUND IN HIS OWN CIPHER. VERY RARE EDITION OF THIS COMPILATION OF THE HISTORICAL WORKS OF JACQUES AUGUSTE DE THOU BY JOHANN FABRICIUS In-12 (140 x 75 mm). Typographical mark on the title page, woodcut headbands, initials and endpapers. COLLATION : ??10 A-Z12 2A-F12 2G4 (2E8 blank) : 20-662 pp, (20) ff. CONTENTS : ??1r : title, ??2r : Cicero Pro Archia, ??3r : dedication, ??3v?: introductory pieces, A1r : text, 2E9 : index, 2G4r : errata BINDING STRICTLY OF THE PERIOD. Red morocco, gilt decoration, framed fillets, number in the center of the boards, very ornate ribbed spine, speckled edges. Modern black morocco box PROVENANCE: Nicolas-Claude Fabri, seigneur de Peiresc (1580-1637; numeral) -- Denis Godefroy (1653-1719; armorial bookplate; handwritten bookplate signature on title page) -- baron Georges de Stengel (his sale, Paris, December 6, 1861, no. 1056) RARITY: in the library: only 5 copies in Europe according to viaLibri: 3 in Germany (Erlangen, Munich, Regensburg), 1 in Poland (Warsaw), and 1 in the Czech Republic (Brno) -- lacking in the BnF -- no copy in the United States according to viaLibri -- nothing in the Berès file -- on the market: no copy has passed through public sales for the last fifty years Old restorations on the title page, at ??4 and ??11-12, ink stain at ??6, last endpaper slightly dislocated, unidentified old catalog clipping stuck on the second counterpart. Old restorations to the binding In a letter dated May 25, 1627, addressed to Pierre or Jacques Dupuy, two brothers, one a lawyer at the Parliament of Paris and later a State Councillor, the other a Prior of Saint-Sauveur, both guards of the King's library, Peiresc inquired about this edition by Johann Fabricius (1587-1617): "I would like to learn from you what this continuations of the History of Mr. de Thou from the year 1607 until 1618 of Frankfurt and this Hemerologium that [Johann] Fabricius compiled of it, which I would be well pleased to have in his time, is." The copy then passed into the collection of Denis Godefroy (1653-1719), lawyer at the Parliament of Paris and bookkeeper at the Chambre des comptes de Paris. BIBLIOGRAPHY : not in USTC, which only refers to the 1617 and 1618 editions published in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse -- not in Brunet -- for provenance : Guigard, II, pp. 387-392 -- Lettres de Peiresc aux frères Dupuy, Paris, 1888, t. I. p. 253 -- P. Gassendi, Peiresc. Le "Prince des Curieux" au temps du baroque, Paris, 1992 WEBOGRAPHY : B. Marty, "De quelques signes extérieurs de Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc", Les Amis de Peiresc : http://lesamisdepeiresc.fr/Signes%20exterieurs/De%20quelques%20signes%20exterieurs%20de%20Peiresc.pdf