1589 PORTAITS of NOTABLE MEN ILLUSTRATED by Tobias Stimmer antique Icones sive..

REUSNER, Nikolaus

Icones sive imagines viuae, literis cl. virorum, Italiae, Graeciae, Germaniae, Galliae, Angliae, Ungariae. Extypis Valdkirchianis in lucem productae: cum elogiis variis

Basileae: Conr. Valdkirch; 1589

[A series of portraits of notable men of the XVth and XVIth centuries, and some earlier]

Illustrated with 81 full page woodcut portraits by Tobias Stimmer

-mostly after paintings in the portrait gallery of Paolo Giovio

Original vellum binding with manuscript title to the spine

with modern Ex-libris of Henry Edward Weber

Very good condition, some toning

Size: 4 1/2 by 7 1/4 inches

Text in Latin
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Hohannes Ernestus, by Nicolaus Reusner (or Nikolaus von Reusner), latinized as Nicolaus Reusnerus (1545 - Jena, 1602), German publisher of the 16th century.
Reusner is described as a universal man of great erudition and a kind disposition.
He wrote a total of 83 works on a wide range of subjects, including poetry, biography, history, rhetoric, philosophy and natural sciences in addition to his own field of civil and feudal law
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