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REUSNER, Nicolaus (1545-1602). Contrafacturbuch. Ware und Lebendige Bildnussen etlicher...Männer in Teutschland. Strassburg: Bernard Jobin, 9 June 1587.
8o (180 x 111 mm). Title printed in red and black with woodcut vignette, 103 woodcut portraits after Tobias Stimmer, one woodcut tail-piece. (A few stains, light overall browning.) Contemporary German vellum gilt, covers with double gilt fillet surrounding central ornamental tools, spine with later stamped lettering, endpapers renewed (some overall staining, curling). Provenance: Ludwig Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1671-1735), ruler of the Wolfenbüttel subdivision (bookplate on rear pastedown); William Stirling Maxwell (bookplate on front pastedown); acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1988.
FIRST GERMAN EDITION, printed in the same year and on the same press as the Latin edition. A fine collection of portraits after Tobias Stimmer, featuring many of the great figures of Reformation and renaissance Europe with an emphasis on German-speaking countries. Among the humanists and scholars depicted are: Erasmus, Savonarola, von Hutten, Budé, Paraclesus, Copernicus, and Vesalius. See: Adams R-408; Fairfax Murray German 361; LC-Rosenwald 720. Not in BSB Ink.
8o (180 x 111 mm). Title printed in red and black with woodcut vignette, 103 woodcut portraits after Tobias Stimmer, one woodcut tail-piece. (A few stains, light overall browning.) Contemporary German vellum gilt, covers with double gilt fillet surrounding central ornamental tools, spine with later stamped lettering, endpapers renewed (some overall staining, curling). Provenance: Ludwig Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1671-1735), ruler of the Wolfenbüttel subdivision (bookplate on rear pastedown); William Stirling Maxwell (bookplate on front pastedown); acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1988.
FIRST GERMAN EDITION, printed in the same year and on the same press as the Latin edition. A fine collection of portraits after Tobias Stimmer, featuring many of the great figures of Reformation and renaissance Europe with an emphasis on German-speaking countries. Among the humanists and scholars depicted are: Erasmus, Savonarola, von Hutten, Budé, Paraclesus, Copernicus, and Vesalius. See: Adams R-408; Fairfax Murray German 361; LC-Rosenwald 720. Not in BSB Ink.