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FABER (Johannes). In Imagines illustrium Ex Fulvii Ursini Bi…
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FABER (Johannes). In Imagines illustrium Ex Fulvii Ursini Bi…
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Lot no. 97
FABER (Johannes).
In Imagines illustrium Ex Fulvii Ursini Bibliotheca... Commentarius. Antwerp, Ex Officina Plantiniana, Jean Moretus, 1606. In-4, hardback vellum, title in ink on spine (Binding of the period).
A fine Plantinian edition, illustrated with a frontispiece and 168 (151 + 17) intaglio portraits of illustrious men based on the collections of antiquities and medals of Fulvio Orsini (1529-1660), a great humanist and antiquarian of the Italian Renaissance.
The 151 portraits, by Théodore Galle, had first appeared in 1598, and the 17 others, numbered A to R, are new.
Compass mark on title.
Handwritten bookplate on one endpaper.
Traces of folding on portrait no. 73, wetness at the head of several engravings.
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