1590 IMAGES of ILLUSTRIOUS MEN antique ILLUSTRATED Icones sive Imagines virorum

Icones sive Imagines virorum literis illustrium, quorum fide et doctrinà religionis bonarum literarum studia, nostra patrumque memoria, in Germania praesertim, in integrum sunt restituta.
Additis eorundem elogijs diversorum auctorum.
Ex secunda recognitione.

(collection of portraits of prominent contemporary authors, scholars, religious figures, physicians, etc., accompanied by Latin and Greek verses about them by various authors)

by NICOLAI REUSNERI

Strasbourg, Jobin ; 1590


8 lvs, 428 pages, 8 lvs.

With woodcut printer's mark, woodcut coat of arms (title verso) and 100 (almost full-length) portrait woodcuts.

Full vellum binding, manuscript title to the spine


-VD16 R 1428. STC 734. Adams R 410. Ritter 2008. Schottenloher 35736. Muller 596, 211. Fairfax Murray 362. Dekesel R 22. Andresen III, 76, 141 III. Cat. Stimmer, Basel 1984, 119. Second Latin edition. -


All pages bordered by simple woodcut borders;

among the most famous portraits: 

P. Apian, Brant, Calvin, Erasmus of Rotterdam, L. Fuchs, J. Hus, U. von Hutten, Copernicus, Paracelsus, Savonarola, Zwingli, Bullinger, Albertus Magnus, Oecolampadius, Gesner, Vesalius, Schwenckfeld, Munster, Amerbach, Oporinus, Melanchthon, and others;

most were cut by Christoph Murer, 2 by Tobias Stimmer (Flacius Illyricus and Paracelsus).

At the beginning, the coat of arms of Frederick II, King of Denmark, and the portrait of the author.

Title page repaired at the lower white margin, endpapers with manuscript entries, rear cover top edge slightly damaged, overall a nice copy.


Size 4.5 by 7 inches

Text in Latin
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