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DAVID, Jan. Veridicus Christianus. Antwerp: Plantin press, 1601. 4° (194 x 148mm). Engraved title and 102 engraved plates, numbered 1-100 and 2 printed on pp.351 and 375, 4 leaves of printed music at end, woodcut device. (Some light browning, one fore-margin renewed, marginal repairs in one other plate, small wormholes at end, dampstain at extreme fore-margin of first two quires.) Red morocco gilt by F. Bedford (lower edges lightly stained). Provenance: inscription washed from title. FIRST EDITION, and with the plate after p.374, often missing. Brunet II, 535 (calling for 103 plates); Funck p.302.
GAMBARA, Lorenzo (c.1496-1586). Rerum Sacrarum Liber. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1577. 8° (215 x 158mm). Engraved title by Bernardo Passaro and 55 engravings in the text, of which one is a repeat, one is signed by Pieter van der Borcht and Joannes Wiericx, and 5 PLATES PERTAIN TO THE BATTLE OF LEPANTO. (Title trimmed and mounted with loss of text on verso, repaired tear in A2, one plate with internal tear, slight surface wear to one plate.) Early 20th-century green morocco. Funck, p.316; Labore et Constantia 233.
SOLIS, Virgil (1514-1562). Biblische Figuren des [Alten- und] Neüwen Testaments. Frankfurt: David Zephelius, Johann Raschen and Sigismund Feyerabend, 1562. Oblong 4° (154 x 171mm). 216 (of 218?) woodcut emblematic Biblical scenes by Virgil Solis on 108 leaves, title and colophon leaf to part II only. (Lacks first 2 leaves, all leaves on guards, numerous fore-margins strengthened, stain in cut in 5 leaves, stain at upper margin of first few quires.) 19th-century calf, single gilt fillet and blind-rolled border, gilt spine. (3)
GAMBARA, Lorenzo (c.1496-1586). Rerum Sacrarum Liber. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1577. 8° (215 x 158mm). Engraved title by Bernardo Passaro and 55 engravings in the text, of which one is a repeat, one is signed by Pieter van der Borcht and Joannes Wiericx, and 5 PLATES PERTAIN TO THE BATTLE OF LEPANTO. (Title trimmed and mounted with loss of text on verso, repaired tear in A2, one plate with internal tear, slight surface wear to one plate.) Early 20th-century green morocco. Funck, p.316; Labore et Constantia 233.
SOLIS, Virgil (1514-1562). Biblische Figuren des [Alten- und] Neüwen Testaments. Frankfurt: David Zephelius, Johann Raschen and Sigismund Feyerabend, 1562. Oblong 4° (154 x 171mm). 216 (of 218?) woodcut emblematic Biblical scenes by Virgil Solis on 108 leaves, title and colophon leaf to part II only. (Lacks first 2 leaves, all leaves on guards, numerous fore-margins strengthened, stain in cut in 5 leaves, stain at upper margin of first few quires.) 19th-century calf, single gilt fillet and blind-rolled border, gilt spine. (3)
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