CONTINENTAL BOOKS CATALOGUE 1448 - Maggs Bros. Ltd.

author is Cervantes’ La Gitanilla (Novelas
Ejemplares, 1613) the tale of a Spanish nobleman
marrying a gypsy girl, which appears here for the
first time in the Netherlands as ‘Het Spaens
Heydinnetie’. Van de Venne’s illustration of Don
Jan in a large Spanish ruff before a seated Pretiose
with Majombe, the gypsy, behind, greatly
influenced other Dutch artist’s rendering of the
subject and came to epitomize the tale in visual
terms; it also provides evidence of the connections
between Dutch art and contemporary literature
(see: I Gaskell, Transformations of Cervantes ‘La
Gitanilla’ in Dutch Art, in Journal of the Warburg
& Courtauld Institute, vol 45 (1982), pp263-70).
Provenance: Unidentified circular monogrammed
stamp on title-page.
Museum Catsianum 153.
21 CAVALIERI (GIOVANNI BATTISTA) Romanorum imperatorum
effigies. Elogiis, ex diversis scriptoribus, per Thomam Treteru[m]... Rome,
apud Franciscum Coattinum, 1590.
Title engraved within architectural border with
the crowned arms of the dedicatee Stefan
Bathory, king of Poland, at the head, full-page
engraved arms of Cavalieri and 151 full-page
engraved portraits with the names engraved at
the foot, Coattino’s ring device on verso of last
leaf, coloured.
8vo (171 x 114mm) [8]ff (last two blank) 157 (ie 152)
ff. Contemporary vellum over thin paste-boards, re
(ties missing, trifle soiled). £1,500
An AdditionAl portrAit oF holy romAn
emperor rudolph ii is found here in the second
edition of Cavalieri’s portrait book of the Roman
Emperors, following the first of 1583. Mortimer
records a second issue of this edition with the
title-page altered to 1592. The work is dedicated
to Stefan Bathory, king of Poland, and the short
biographies are by the Polish polymath Tomasz
Treter (1547-1610), at that time a canon at
Santa Maria in Trastevere, who was closely
associated with the Polish court.
Giovanni Battista de’Cavalieri (1526-1601)
was a prolific printmaker producing engravings
after Michelangelo and other masters as well as
illustrating a number of books such as the important
counter-reformation suites of Catholic martyrdoms
Ecclesiae militantis triumphi (1583) and Ecclesiae
Anglicanae Trophaea (1584). As Mortimer notes
Cavalieri’s copperplates were also used to illustrate
a text by Antonio Ciccarelli, Le vita degli
imperatori romani, Rome, Domenico Basa, 1590.
Provenance: Early inscription on title-page
rubbed away, early shelf-marks. Booklabel of
Ebenezer Palmer, Bookseller, 18 Paternoster Row,
London EC, Estd 1819. 20th-century bookplate of
Thomas Hodgkin, Newcastle on Tyne, designed
by Harry Soane, London.
Lower corner, I3 paper flaw affecting one letter.
Brunet I, 1697. Mortimer Italian 119. OCLC (four
copies only in US libraries: Newberry, Illinois, St
John’s MN, & Southern Methodist University)
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