1577 ELOGIA VIRORUM LITERIS ILLUSTRIUM 63 ENGRAVINGS by Tobias Stimmer antique

GIOVIO, PAOLO (1483-1552)

ELOGIA VIRORUM LITERIS ILLUSTRIUM


Basel: Petrus Perna; 1577

First edition with the present amazing set of illustrations

folio 12 3/4 x 9 1/2"

[12 pp], 231 pp, [4 pp]

 title page printed within elaborate woodcut compartment by Tobias Stimmer (1539-1584),

with sixty-three woodcut portraits in the text (fifty-nine by Stimmer);


bound in modern half red morocco with beige paper boards;

Very good condition, minor wear

Text in Latin

Adams G-648.

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