Insignium aliquot Virorum Icones, Lyon: Jean de Tournes, 1559, 8°, FIRST EDITION, 145 woodcut medallion portraits (lower margin of title repaired), contemporary limp vellum. [Adams I23; Mortimer II, 527]

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Insignium aliquot Virorum Icones, Lyon: Jean de Tournes, 1559, 8°, FIRST EDITION, 145 woodcut medallion portraits (lower margin of title repaired), contemporary limp vellum. [Adams I23; Mortimer II, 527]

First and probably only edition. The blocks in the Icones series were used in some versions of De Tourne's Thesaurus amicorum [c. 1557].

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