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HEROLD, Johannes (1514-1567). Tabula Palatinorum. Basel: Johannes Oporin, March 1556.
The rare first edition of this superb, large-format engraved genealogy of the Wittelsbach dynasty.
Folio (458 x 312mm). 22 woodcut plates by Zacharias Speckle and Hieronymus Wyssenbach after Jacob Clauser and David Kandel, comprising: 21 double-page plates, and one single-page plate with a large ornament in three parts which, when joined, bears the motto 'De Coelo Victoria'; and with a related octavo pamphlet by Herold [Exegesis, Basel: J. Oporin, April 1556]; all plates and pamphlet mounted on stubs (some small repairs at the folds). Late 19th-century tree sheep, lettered up the spine in gilt, sides with a roll-tooled border in blind, edges sprinkled red (spine worn with ends chipped). Provenance: David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford and Balcarres (1900-1975; signed 'Balniel 1925', and with an ALS from Campell Dodgson dated 1927 laid in).
If joined the sheets would form a printed family tree nearly 4.5 meters high, tracing the roots of the then Elector Palatine Friedrich II (1482-1556) back more than a thousand years to King Clovis I (466-511). The House of Wittelsbach ruled Bavaria from the 12th century, and the Electoral Palatinate from the 13th century. The engraving shows half-length portraits of more than 900 male and female members of this noble house, the baptism of its supposed founder Clovis, and a view of Cologne. The border features roundel portraits of Roman and Byzantine Emperors, and of Friedrich’s contemporary Suleiman the Magnificent (1497-1566). The fine woodcuts are after drawings mostly by Jacob Clauser (c. 1520-1579), who also worked on Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia. ABPC and RBH record no other copy having been offered at auction. WorldCat locates copies at Princeton and in the British Museum only. A second edition was issued in 1680, with the blocks re-cut by Gaspar Ulrich of Zürich.
The rare first edition of this superb, large-format engraved genealogy of the Wittelsbach dynasty.
Folio (458 x 312mm). 22 woodcut plates by Zacharias Speckle and Hieronymus Wyssenbach after Jacob Clauser and David Kandel, comprising: 21 double-page plates, and one single-page plate with a large ornament in three parts which, when joined, bears the motto 'De Coelo Victoria'; and with a related octavo pamphlet by Herold [Exegesis, Basel: J. Oporin, April 1556]; all plates and pamphlet mounted on stubs (some small repairs at the folds). Late 19th-century tree sheep, lettered up the spine in gilt, sides with a roll-tooled border in blind, edges sprinkled red (spine worn with ends chipped). Provenance: David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford and Balcarres (1900-1975; signed 'Balniel 1925', and with an ALS from Campell Dodgson dated 1927 laid in).
If joined the sheets would form a printed family tree nearly 4.5 meters high, tracing the roots of the then Elector Palatine Friedrich II (1482-1556) back more than a thousand years to King Clovis I (466-511). The House of Wittelsbach ruled Bavaria from the 12th century, and the Electoral Palatinate from the 13th century. The engraving shows half-length portraits of more than 900 male and female members of this noble house, the baptism of its supposed founder Clovis, and a view of Cologne. The border features roundel portraits of Roman and Byzantine Emperors, and of Friedrich’s contemporary Suleiman the Magnificent (1497-1566). The fine woodcuts are after drawings mostly by Jacob Clauser (c. 1520-1579), who also worked on Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia. ABPC and RBH record no other copy having been offered at auction. WorldCat locates copies at Princeton and in the British Museum only. A second edition was issued in 1680, with the blocks re-cut by Gaspar Ulrich of Zürich.
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