[Count D. BOUTOURLINE] Appiani Alexandrini Romanarum histori - Lot 195

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[Count D. BOUTOURLINE] Appiani Alexandrini Romanarum histori - Lot 195
[Count D. BOUTOURLINE] Appiani Alexandrini Romanarum historiarum: De bellis Punicis liber, De bellis Syriacis liber, De bellisParthicis liber, De bellis Mithridaticis liber, De bellis ciuilibus libri v, De bellis Gallicisliber, seu potius, epitome. Basileae : Per Hier. Frobenium, et Nic. Episcopium, an. MDLIIII [1554]. Printer's mark "Froben" on title page and colophon, dated 1553 in title and 1554 in colphon. 1 volume in-folio, 22 x 34 cm, corner binding. Copy complete with the in-fine plate with the large engraved vignette by Froben, and very beautiful engraved lettering. Prestigious provenance: from the library of the general and writer Count Dmitri-Petrowitsch Boutourline (1790-1849). He was also director of the Imperial Library of St. Petersburg. According to the notice of the BNF: Count Boutourlin had 2 libraries. The first one, to which he devoted 30 years, was burnt in 1812 during the fire of Moscow. Retired in Florence, this bibliophile managed to build a second one which became one of the most famous in Europe. It contained 7678 items, including 250 mss., almost 1000 15th century editions and almost all of Savanarola's pamphlets. There are two catalogues: the one of 1805 and the one of the late Count de Boutourlin's library, which will be sold on Monday, November 16, 1840: Paris, Silvestre, 1839, 3 vols. in-8, corresponding to the second library that he created in Florence. This copy is certainly present in this catalog. His armorial bookplate bears here its number 1189. Other reference : Catalogue des livres de S.E.M. le comte de Boutourlin revu par MM. Ant.Alex. Barbier, librarian of the Conseil d'Etat.
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