BOISSARD, JEAN JACQUES. Icones quinquaginta virorum illustrium doctrina & eruditione praestantium ad vivum effictae, cum eorum vitis descriptis. Frankfurt: Theodore de Bry (vols. 3-4: heirs of T. de Bry) 1597-99. 4 vols., 4to, 202 x 158 mm. (8 x 6 1/16 in.), seventeenth-century vellum over pasteboard, title lettered in manuscript on smooth spine, edges red-sprinkled, lacking ties, light dampstain to lower cover of vol. 2, slight worming at inner hinges, one or two marginal wormholes in vols. 2 and 4 (affecting vol. 2 title), small stain to pl. [10] in vol. 2, minor marginal repair to plate IX in vol. 3, plate numbers supplied in red pencil to upper margins of unnumbered plates in vol. 2, occasional marginal dampstaining, a few leaves lightly discolored, a very few small stains. FIRST EDITION, 4 engraved titles by de Bry, vols. 1-3 with small engraved portrait of the author (vols. 1 and 2), and T.A. Lonicer (v. 3), 198 full-page engraved portraits, included in the text quires, by Robert Boissard, the Master E.N. and Theodore de Bry, many within ornamental borders, type ornament head- and tail-pieces, woodcut initials. Adams B-2326-29; Brunet I, 1068 ("la première et la meilleure édition"). A very good copy of Boissard's finely produced illustrated biographical dictionary. The subjects range from scholars, writers and thinkers who marked their epoch--among them Petrarch, Columbus, Dante, Ronsard, Machiavelli, Gesner, Vesalius, Mercator, Luther, Cramner, Münster, Copernicus, and Ptolemy--to obscure late sixteenth-century notables of Frankfurt and Hesse.Provenance: Contemporary ownership inscription in upper margin of each title: "Janus a Dunenvoird(?) et a Woud. in Waramondt Emptus est 1601 20£ Fidentes deus iuvat" -- "Madame van Huerne de Puyenbeke, Née de Schietere de Lophem," eighteenth-century letterpress bookplate -- G. Delmay, bookplate. (4)

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BOISSARD, JEAN JACQUES. Icones quinquaginta virorum illustrium doctrina & eruditione praestantium ad vivum effictae, cum eorum vitis descriptis. Frankfurt: Theodore de Bry (vols. 3-4: heirs of T. de Bry) 1597-99. 4 vols., 4to, 202 x 158 mm. (8 x 6 1/16 in.), seventeenth-century vellum over pasteboard, title lettered in manuscript on smooth spine, edges red-sprinkled, lacking ties, light dampstain to lower cover of vol. 2, slight worming at inner hinges, one or two marginal wormholes in vols. 2 and 4 (affecting vol. 2 title), small stain to pl. [10] in vol. 2, minor marginal repair to plate IX in vol. 3, plate numbers supplied in red pencil to upper margins of unnumbered plates in vol. 2, occasional marginal dampstaining, a few leaves lightly discolored, a very few small stains. FIRST EDITION, 4 engraved titles by de Bry, vols. 1-3 with small engraved portrait of the author (vols. 1 and 2), and T.A. Lonicer (v. 3), 198 full-page engraved portraits, included in the text quires, by Robert Boissard, the Master E.N. and Theodore de Bry, many within ornamental borders, type ornament head- and tail-pieces, woodcut initials. Adams B-2326-29; Brunet I, 1068 ("la première et la meilleure édition"). A very good copy of Boissard's finely produced illustrated biographical dictionary. The subjects range from scholars, writers and thinkers who marked their epoch--among them Petrarch, Columbus, Dante, Ronsard, Machiavelli, Gesner, Vesalius, Mercator, Luther, Cramner, Münster, Copernicus, and Ptolemy--to obscure late sixteenth-century notables of Frankfurt and Hesse. Provenance: Contemporary ownership inscription in upper margin of each title: "Janus a Dunenvoird(?) et a Woud. in Waramondt Emptus est 1601 20£ Fidentes deus iuvat" -- "Madame van Huerne de Puyenbeke, Née de Schietere de Lophem," eighteenth-century letterpress bookplate -- G. Delmay, bookplate. (4)

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BOISSARD, JEAN JACQUES. Icones quinquaginta virorum illustrium doctrina & eruditione praestantium ad vivum effictae, cum eorum vitis descriptis. Frankfurt: Theodore de Bry (vols. 3-4: heirs of T. de Bry) 1597-99. 4 vols., 4to, 202 x 158 mm. (8 x 6 1/16 in.), seventeenth-century vellum over pasteboard, title lettered in manuscript on smooth spine, edges red-sprinkled, lacking ties, light dampstain to lower cover of vol. 2, slight worming at inner hinges, one or two marginal wormholes in vols. 2 and 4 (affecting vol. 2 title), small stain to pl. [10] in vol. 2, minor marginal repair to plate IX in vol. 3, plate numbers supplied in red pencil to upper margins of unnumbered plates in vol. 2, occasional marginal dampstaining, a few leaves lightly discolored, a very few small stains. FIRST EDITION, 4 engraved titles by de Bry, vols. 1-3 with small engraved portrait of the author (vols. 1 and 2), and T.A. Lonicer (v. 3), 198 full-page engraved portraits, included in the text quires, by Robert Boissard, the Master E.N. and Theodore de Bry, many within ornamental borders, type ornament head- and tail-pieces, woodcut initials. Adams B-2326-29; Brunet I, 1068 ("la première et la meilleure édition").

A very good copy of Boissard's finely produced illustrated biographical dictionary. The subjects range from scholars, writers and thinkers who marked their epoch--among them Petrarch, Columbus, Dante, Ronsard, Machiavelli, Gesner, Vesalius, Mercator, Luther, Cramner, Münster, Copernicus, and Ptolemy--to obscure late sixteenth-century notables of Frankfurt and Hesse.

Provenance: Contemporary ownership inscription in upper margin of each title: "Janus a Dunenvoird(?) et a Woud. in Waramondt Emptus est 1601 20£ Fidentes deus iuvat" -- "Madame van Huerne de Puyenbeke, Née de Schietere de Lophem," eighteenth-century letterpress bookplate -- G. Delmay, bookplate. (4)