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FULVIO, Andrea. Illustrum Ymagines. [Lyon: A. Blanchard for J.Monsnier and F. Juste], 1524.
12o (130 x 90 mm). Title-page with Juste's large device printed in red and black, supported by two putti, text on next three pages within woodcut borders, 204 full-page woodcuts containing circular portraits of illustrious Romans within several alternating pictorial borders, a few touched with light color (minor soiling to title, a few light marginal stains, small repair to corner of HH3). Modern red-brown calf (extremities and spine slightly rubbed). Provenance: Humphrey Wanley (1470-1726), librarian, paleographer, scholar of Old English and first keeper of the Harleian Library. Wanley's inscription in top margin of title records his purchase of this volume on 21 August 1691; acquired from Howard S. Mott, Inc., 1966.
FIRST FRENCH EDITION, following the edition of Rome, 1517 (see privious lot). Displaying classical portraiture on Roman coins in the collection of Jacopo Mazzocchi. Mortimer French, 242; Fairfax Murray French 182.
12o (130 x 90 mm). Title-page with Juste's large device printed in red and black, supported by two putti, text on next three pages within woodcut borders, 204 full-page woodcuts containing circular portraits of illustrious Romans within several alternating pictorial borders, a few touched with light color (minor soiling to title, a few light marginal stains, small repair to corner of HH3). Modern red-brown calf (extremities and spine slightly rubbed). Provenance: Humphrey Wanley (1470-1726), librarian, paleographer, scholar of Old English and first keeper of the Harleian Library. Wanley's inscription in top margin of title records his purchase of this volume on 21 August 1691; acquired from Howard S. Mott, Inc., 1966.
FIRST FRENCH EDITION, following the edition of Rome, 1517 (see privious lot). Displaying classical portraiture on Roman coins in the collection of Jacopo Mazzocchi. Mortimer French, 242; Fairfax Murray French 182.