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VAN DER AA, Pieter (publ. by) - Principum et illustrium quor…
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622
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VAN DER AA, Pieter (publ. by) - Principum et illustrium quor…
See original version (French)
Estimate €300
Voluntary lot
Description
VAN DER AA, Pieter (publ. by) - Principum et illustrium quorundam virorum. Qui in Europa alibique terrarum, quâ fama, quâ eruditione celebres fuerunt, verae imagines. Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, (1705). In-folio, (4) ff. and 97 portraits including 2 folded (Erasmus), contemporary brown marbled calf, spine ribbed and ornamented, headpieces rest.
Engraved portraits, most by Pieter van Gunst and Cornelis Vermeulen, one by D. Stoopendaal, apparently based on an iconography drawn up by the painter Adriaen van der Werff (1659-1722) from various sources. It includes : Rudolf Agricola, André Alciat, Amerigo Vespucci, Pietro Bembo, Federico Borromeo, Joachim Camerarius, Charlemagne, Charles V, Christopher Columbus, Erasmus, Henry III, King of France, Henry VIII, King of England, Hans Holbein, Christopher of Longueil, Martin Luther, Magellan, Marco Girolamo Vida, Melanchthon, Thomas More, Moctezuma II, Aztec emperor, Peter I, Emperor of Russia, Philip II, king of Spain, Willibald Pirckheimer, Francisco Pizarro, Beatus Rhenanus, Jacques Sadolet, Jahangir, Mughal emperor, Nur Jahan, wife of Jahangir, Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor, Shah Aurangzeb, Mughal emperor, Jahanara Begum Sahib, daughter of Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor, Roshanara Begum, daughter of Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor, Francesco Sfondrati, Oberto Pallavicino, Juan Luis Vives, etc.
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