[Armorial binding] [MARC-AURELE] Antonio de GUEVARA. - Lot 234

[Armorial binding] [MARC-AURELE] Antonio de GUEVARA. Histoire de Marc Aurèle, Empereur romain, vray Miroir et Horloge des Princes ... traduitte premièrement de castillan en françois par R. B. de Grise: depuis revue et corrigée ... by the late N. de Herberay, Seigneur des Essars, Commissaire ordinaire de l'artillerie du Roy. A Paris, par Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565, in-folio bound in full morocco, smooth spine decorated with gilt rosettes, richly decorated boards with a prelate's coat of arms in the center, gilt edges. Bound with the arms of Cardinal Angelo Nicolini (Florence 1525-1567). Handsome title with engraved frame including portraits of Juno, Jupiter, Neptune and Ceres (very skilfully repaired tear), followed by 21 ffnc (prologue and table of chapters) - 279 leaves (558 pages) - and a leaf of "Noms et Livres des Autheurs dont ce présent oeuvre a été principalement recueilly". A fully-regulated copy, decorated with lettering, with a small marginal worm-gallery at the beginning of the volume and a scattered trace of angular dampness, without incidence. Provenance: Library of the painter Félix Ziem (long handwritten note in ink on the signed flyleaf) and handwritten bookplate on title of L. Machon (Louis Machon (1603-1672), the author apologist for Machiavelli?). Félix Ziem (Beaune 1821-1911) was a painter close to the Barbizon School, renowned for his seascapes and landscapes of Venice and Constantinople. A painter associated with Orientalism, he is considered one of the precursors of Impressionism. First edition by Pierre et Galiot du Pré frères, printed by Jehan le Royer, of the French translation by Nicolas de Herberay des Essars. First published in 1555 by Guillaume le Noir, under the title L'Horloge des princes, this translation is based on the Castilian text "Reloj de principes" and the French translation by Berthault de la Grise in 1540, here revised and corrected by Herberay. Antonio de Guevara (1481-1545), a Franciscan monk, was a preacher at the court of Charles V, inquisitor of Toledo in 1525 and bishop of Mondonedo.