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BEZA, Theodore de (1519-1605). Icones, id est verae imagines doctrina simul et pietate illustrium... additis eorundem vitae & operae descriptiones, quibus adiectae sunt nonnullae picturae quas emblemata vocant. Geneva: Jean de Laon, 1580.
4o (228 x 157 mm). Title-page with woodcut printer's device, 38 oval woodcut portraits within Renaissance borders, 53 borders without portraits but with two windheads and text in each, 44 woodcut emblem vignettes within borders, numerous woodcut head-pieces and initials. (Light browning and some miniscule marginal wormholes.) 17th-century mottled calf, spine gilt (old repairs to spineends). Provenance: J.B. Wautier (signature on title); Pierre Hollier Larousse (bookplate); acquired from Librairie Rousseau-Girard, 1969.
FIRST EDITION of this illustrated biographical dictionary of humanists and leaders of the Protestant Reformation. Included are Martin Luther, John Calvin, Peter Zwingli, Conrad Gesner, Marter Bucer, Petrus Martyr, Thomas Crammer, John Knox, Robert Estienne, Hieronymus Froben and Phillip Melanchthon. Many of the subjects were personally known to Bèza and therefore his portraits, both written and pictorial, have great authenticity. The work's second part contains forty-four illustrated emblems. Adams B-920; Landwehr Romanic 154; Lipperheide Cg52; Praz 270.
4o (228 x 157 mm). Title-page with woodcut printer's device, 38 oval woodcut portraits within Renaissance borders, 53 borders without portraits but with two windheads and text in each, 44 woodcut emblem vignettes within borders, numerous woodcut head-pieces and initials. (Light browning and some miniscule marginal wormholes.) 17th-century mottled calf, spine gilt (old repairs to spineends). Provenance: J.B. Wautier (signature on title); Pierre Hollier Larousse (bookplate); acquired from Librairie Rousseau-Girard, 1969.
FIRST EDITION of this illustrated biographical dictionary of humanists and leaders of the Protestant Reformation. Included are Martin Luther, John Calvin, Peter Zwingli, Conrad Gesner, Marter Bucer, Petrus Martyr, Thomas Crammer, John Knox, Robert Estienne, Hieronymus Froben and Phillip Melanchthon. Many of the subjects were personally known to Bèza and therefore his portraits, both written and pictorial, have great authenticity. The work's second part contains forty-four illustrated emblems. Adams B-920; Landwehr Romanic 154; Lipperheide Cg52; Praz 270.