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Lot 55
03.11.2020 14:30UTC +01:00
Classic
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€ 2 000
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Event locationFrance, Paris
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ID 420905
Lot 55 | VÉGÈCE, Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus (IVe-Ve siècles) De...
Estimate value
€ 800 – 1 200
VÉGÈCE, Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus (IVe-Ve siècles). De re Militari libri quatuor… Paris : Chrestien Wechel, 1535.



Seconde édition donnée par Wechel de cet ouvrage richement illustré. Ce traité d’art militaire de Végèce est resté célèbre pour sa riche illustration, où l’on peut observer divers canons mobiles, des échelles télescopiques, des scaphandres, des bottes étanches permettant de traverser des étendues d’eau ou encore diverses frondes et projectiles explosifs. Le beau portrait du lansquenet, ainsi que les costumes des personnages qui peuplent les gravures suggèrent que ces gravures sont dues à un atelier allemand : elles sont d’ailleurs reprises d’une édition d’Augsbourg, datant de 1529. Mortimer, Early French Books, cat. 563.



In-4 (312 x 202 mm). Marque de l’imprimeur aux premier et dernier feuillets. 1 portrait de lansquenet à pleine page, répété aux feuillets a4v et Q1 v (donc utilisé trois fois), 1 diagramme dans le texte et 119 planches hors-texte à pleine page représentant des armes de sièges et équipements militaires. Reliure ancienne en veau marbré, dos à nerfs et caissons ornés, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge, gardes de papier marbré, tranches rouges (discrètes restaurations aux charnières et aux coupes ; mouillures brunes et restauration en marge inférieure du feuillet B5, rousseurs et salissures, plus importantes en début et fin de volume). Provenance : ex-libris manuscrit sur la page de titre : « Frater Gonsalus de La Peña : hunc librorum emit Sex argenteis nummis Anno dominici nativitatis Millesimoquingentesimoquadragesimoprimo ».

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