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267 - ROUILLE (Guillaume). Promptuarii iconum insigniorum a seculo…
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ROUILLE (Guillaume). Promptuarii iconum insigniorum a seculo hominum, Prima et secunda pars. A major publishing venture by Lyon printer Guillaume Rouillé, offering a gallery of nearly 950 woodcut portraits. A veritable visual pantheon of universal history. Lugduni (Lyon), Gulielmum Rouillium (Guillaume Rouillé), 1553. 2 volumes in 1 in-4 (247 x185 mm). Full calf, boards embossed with a framing of cold and gilt fillets, fleurons at the corners, in the centre an iron with floral motifs in a diamond. Contemporary binding. 4 ff.n.c., 172 pp, 2 ff.n.c., 247 pp. 4 ff.n.ch. Restorations to headpieces and corners, jaws cracked with small tears, one corner damaged. The front endpaper, added in the 18th century, shows handwritten inscriptions. Title passed with four handwritten bookplates. Marks of handling in the margins, some creases, missing fragments of the margin of ff ll3 and oo6. Traces of light marginal dampening, more pronounced on about 30ff at the beginning and in-fine. Copious handwritten notes in black pen on the last two leaves. Work collated and complete. First Latin edition of the famous gallery by Lyon printer Guillaume Rouillé, featuring medallion portraits from Adam and Eve to Henry II of France. In all, there are almost 950 wood-engraved effigies, at least two per page, accompanied by short biographies. Rouillé was a leading printer in Lyon, credited with inventing the in-16 pocket format. He served his apprenticeship in Venice before moving to Lyon in 1543, where he set up his own printing works. This collection of portraits was published simultaneously in Latin, French and Italian, then in Spanish five years later, and was a huge success, sparking decades of imitations. Provenance of the libraries of: - "Gaillet ex-libris manuscript on the title. - Séminaire Senonense with ex-libris (stamp) on the title. - H. Foillard with bookplate on front flyleaf. A fully-regulated copy preserved in its original binding.
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About the sale Prestige sale - Antiquarian and collectible books
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Auction time 06/15/2026 at 2:00 PM
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