Caesar, Commentarii, Venice, Paolo Manuzio, 1559, navy morocco by Chatelin for Robert d'Orléans

Caesar, Gaius Julius. Hoc volumine continentur, Commentariorum de bello Gallico libri VIII, De bello civili Pompeiano libri III, De bello Alexandrino liber I, De bello Africano liber I, De bello Hispaniensi liber I. Pictura totius Galliae, & Hispaniae, ex C. Caesaris commentariis, nomina locorum, urbiumque, & populorum Galliae, & Hispaniae, ut olim dicebantur Latine, & nunc dicantur, iuxta litterarum ordinem. Pictura pontis in Rheno, item Avarici, Alexiae, Uxelloduni, Massiliae. Cum correctionibus Pauli Manutii. Venice: (Paolo Manuzio), 1559

A reprint of the Aldine Caesar, but now accompanied by the commentary of Paolo Manuzio. The binding was probably made in London by Chatelin, who worked there between 1852 and 1881, binding many works for French exiles in England.

8vo (155 x 97 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: a-b⁸ A-Z⁸ Aa-Rr⁸: 336 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title- page, 2 double-page woodcut maps, full-page woodcut illustrations, woodcut initials.

binding: Crushed navy morocco gilt in period fanfare style by Antoine Chatelin with monogram of Robert d'Orléans (161 x 103 mm), spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges, crushed red morocco doublures.

provenance: Robert d'Orléans, duc de Chartres (1840-1910), monogram on binding and library ink stamp (as Duc de Chartres) on verso of title-page and at end — Pierre Berès, catalogues 51 (1952) and 57 (1957) — Michel Wittock (1936- 2020), morocco booklabel, his sale, Alde, Paris, 24 October 2013, lot 104, 3,500 euro. references: UCLA 592; Edit16 8176; Renouard 179/21; Culot, Relieurs et reliures décorées en France a l'epoque romantique (1995), no. 163