Lot n° 1255

Portraits - Antwerp imprint - OPMEER, Petrus, BEYERLINCK, Laurentius - Opus chronographicum orbis universi a mundi exordio usque ad annum M.DC.XI. continens historiam, icones, et elogia summorum pontificum, imperatorum, regum, ac virorum illustrium...

Estimation : 200 / 200
Adjudication : Invendu
Description
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Antwerp, H. Verdussen, 1609
2 parts in 1 vol., folio, cont. blindstamped vellum (sm. def. at head), [12]-516-[32], 338-[6] pp., 3 folding tables (minor wormtracks, last ff. dampstained). Very good copy. Extensive world chronology-cum-biographical dictionary by 2 Dutch humanists, illustrated with 479 woodcut medallion portraits of i.a. Erasmus, Da Vinci, Bosch, Montezuma, Vives, Aldus, Morus, Vesalius, Ignatius, Lipsius etc. Dedicated to Albert and Isabella. With an engr. portrait of Opmeer and his biography by Valerius Andreas. Engr. general title by G. de Haen. Woodcut printer's mark on 2nd title. Printed in 2 cols.
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