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Title: 1578 NOTABLE MEN BIOGRAPHIES ILLUSTRATED antique Promtuarii iconum VELLUM 16th C

Description: Promtuarii iconum insigniorum a seculo hominum, subiectis eorum vitis per compendiu ex probatissimis autoribus desumptis. (Images of the More Notable Men from the Beginning of Time, with Their Biographies Subjoined, Taken in Abbreviated Form from the Most Approved Authors) by G. Rust 2 parts in one volume Lyon, Rouille; 1578-81 2 leaves, 172 pp., 2 leaves; 311 pp., 4 leaves. With woodcut title border, woodcut printer's mark and numerous woodcut portrait medallions. Original vellum binding. - Adams P 2162. Baudrier IX, 368 and 385.- Title with manuscript ownership inscription and partly browned, otherwise very good condition with occasional foxing Binding worn From the library of Baron Adhemar von Linden (with his bookplate "Ex Bibliotheca Adhemari Baronis a Linden" on the verso of the title page). Size 6 3/4 by 9 1/2 inches Text in Latin The compilation of woodcut portraits published by Guillaume Rouille, a French bookseller-publisher active in the early modern book trade of Lyon. The book presents the portraits in a medallion format, largely arranged in a supposed chronological order. The subjects range from figures of the Old Testament and Greco-Roman mythology to contemporary individuals of the mid-16th century. Many of the portraits are imaginative rather than historically grounded, shaped by Rouille's interest in physiognomy—the study that sought to relate facial features to character and personality—and by the engraver's artistic license. Although the engraver is unnamed in the text, the 19th-century bibliographer Henri-Louis Baudrier attributed the work to Georges Reverdy. The book is divided into two sections: Prima pars ('First Part'), covering figures predating Christ, and Pars secunda ('Second Part'), documenting individuals from the Christian era onward.

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1578 NOTABLE MEN BIOGRAPHIES ILLUSTRATED antique Promtuarii iconum VELLUM 16th C

Name: 1578 NOTABLE MEN BIOGRAPHIES ILLUSTRATED antique Promtuarii iconum VELLUM 16th C
SKU: 236598261
Price: 1100 USD
Availability: InStock