Lot 38
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SCHRENCKHIO Á NOZINGEN (J.) (SCHRENCK): Augustissimorum Imperatorum ... regum, atque archiducum ... principum ... Nobilium, aliorumq; clarissimorum virorum, qui aut ipsi cum imperio bellorum Duces fuerunt ... descriptiones, engraved figural title incorporating a portrait of Archduke Ferdinand II, 125 engraved plates including one folding, plates on reverse of biographical notes, text within elaborate woodcut borders throughout, handwritten index at front, rebound in paper-covered boards with vellum spine, 2o, Oeniponti, J. Agricola, 1601
SCHRENCKHIO Á NOZINGEN (J.) (SCHRENCK): Augustissimorum Imperatorum ... regum, atque archiducum ... principum ... Nobilium, aliorumq; clarissimorum virorum, qui aut ipsi cum imperio bellorum Duces fuerunt ... descriptiones, engraved figural title incorporating a portrait of Archduke Ferdinand II, 125 engraved plates including one folding, plates on reverse of biographical notes, text within elaborate woodcut borders throughout, handwritten index at front, rebound in paper-covered boards with vellum spine, 2o, Oeniponti, J. Agricola, 1601

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SCHRENCKHIO Á NOZINGEN (J.) (SCHRENCK): Augustissimorum Imperatorum ... regum, atque archiducum ... principum ... Nobilium, aliorumq; clarissimorum virorum, qui aut ipsi cum imperio bellorum Duces fuerunt ... descriptiones, engraved figural title incorporating a portrait of Archduke Ferdinand II, 125 engraved plates including one folding, plates on reverse of biographical notes, text within elaborate woodcut borders throughout, handwritten index at front, rebound in paper-covered boards with vellum spine, 2o, Oeniponti, J. Agricola, 1601

Lot Essay

Maurice Cockle notes in A Bibliography of Military Books up to 1642 that Schrenk's work "...contains the finest plates of armour in existence".

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