BOISSARD, Jean Jacques (1528-1602). Icones quinquaginta virorum illustrium doctrina et eruditione praestantium ad vivum effictae, cum eorum vitis descriptis, Frankfurt: Theodor de Bry, 1597-99, 4 volumes, small 4° (195 x 140mm.), engraved title to each volume and 198 engraved portraits by Robert Boissard, Master E. N. and Theodore de Bry printed with the text, pages ruled in red throughout (titles cropped, light browning to some leaves in vol. I, first two leaves of text in vol. IV soiled, occasional minor spots and stains), early 19th-century russia (joints rubbed, joints of vols. III-IV overlaid with new leather), yellow endpapers, marbled edges. [Adams B2326-29; Brunet I, 1068; Graesse I, 474]