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FENDT, Tobias - Monumenta clarorum doctrina praecipue toto o…
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FENDT, Tobias - Monumenta clarorum doctrina praecipue toto o…
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FENDT, Tobias - Monumenta clarorum doctrina praecipue toto orbe terrarum virorum collecta passim et
maximo impendio cura et industria in aes incisa sumptu et studio nobilis viri D. Sigefridi Rybisch (...) Editio
tertia longè absolutissima. Franckfort, Sigismund Feyerabend, 1589. In-folio, title engraved by Jost Amman and 125
copper-engraved plates by Tobias Fendt, several russets, contemporary brown calf, framed with cold-engraved thread on
medallion surrounded by embossed tracery in centre, spine ribbed and decorated, top and bottom of spine ref.
gold faded.
ANDRESEN II, 32. ADAMS F-229. Apart from the title, the engravings are all from the original 1574 edition printed in Breslau and financed by Seyfried Rybisch, cameral counsellor. Tobias Fendt, a German painter and engraver, lived and died in Breslau in 1575. He had visited Germany, Italy, France and Spain, where he surveyed numerous tombs and published this collection of 125 funerary monuments of famous men from Antiquity to the Renaissance, based on his drawings. They bear epigraphs, and most of them are in Italy.
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