1565 GERMAN HISTORY ILLUSTRATED antique Prosopographiae heroum atque illustrium

Pantaleon,Heinrich.

Prosopographiae heroum atque illustrium virorum totius Germaniae. 

Parts 1 and 2 in one volume

Basel, Brylinger ; 1565

With 2 woodcut printer's marks and numerous small portrait woodcuts in the text.

6 leaves, 291 pages, 10 leaves, 480 (recte: 448) pages, 6 leaves. 


Original blind-stamped leather binding (worn, damaged)

- BM, German Books 673. Adams, P 179. Ebert 15766. Lipperheide, Da 2 (note). -


First edition.

With approximately 1,000 comprehensive biographies and some authentic portraits

Some toning, a few minor wormholes in the margins

title with several handwritten inscriptions, including JP Mittner 1673.

- 2 bookplates (including one with a colored coat of arms from the 17th century, possibly of the Mittner family).


Small folio. Size about 8.5 by 13 inches

Text in German
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Heinrich Pantaleon (1522-1595) was a humanist scholar and physician. He lived in Basel and taught at the University, but is perhaps most famous for the publication of his Prosopographiae heroum atque totius illustrium virorum Germaniae.
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