Icones sive imagines vivae literis cl. virorum, Italiae, Graeciae, Germaniae, Galliae, Angliae, Ungariae

Author: Reusner, Nicolaus

Publisher: Waldkirch

Published: Basel

Publishing year: 1589

Reusner, Nicolaus (1545-1602). "Icones sive imagines vivae literis cl. virorum, Italiae, Graeciae, Germaniae, Galliae, Angliae, Ungariae ... [and] Icones aliquot clarorum virorum Germaniae, Angliae, Galliae, Ungariae". Basel: Konrad Waldkirch, 1589. 12mo (19 x 14 cm). 2 parts in one volume. 176 leaves (i.e. 352 unnumbered pages) with 92 woodcut portraits after Tobias Stimmer. Bound together with 224 unprinted leaves. Embossed full-leather binding dated 1590.

A series of portraits of notable men of the XVth and XVIth centuries (with a few earlier) accompanied by epigrams and laudatory verses. - Nicolaus Reusner was a German jurist and publisher. - With old handwritten owner's signature (Johann Friderich Halbmayer) on title page. - Binding clasps removed. - A leaf with portraits of Andrea del Sarto on recto and Titian on verso with an unprofessionally repaired crack. The next leaf with portraits of Michelangelo Buonarroti on recto and Bartolommeo (Baccio) Bandinelli on verso with the lower corner by the spine torn off (without the loss of the picture). The unprinted leaves with several handwritten notes from the 18th century.

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Tags: Nicolaus Reusner, Icones sive imagines vivae literis cl. virorum, Italiae, Graeciae, Germaniae, Galliae, Angliae, Ungariae, Waldkirch, 1589