Icones, id est, Verae imagines virorum doctrina simul et pietate illustrium … quibus adiectae sunt nonnullae picturae quas emblemata vocant

by Theodore de Bèze

$12,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

First edition. With 38 fine woodcut portraits and 44 numbered Emblems; title page vignette, ornamental scrollwork borders, numerous headpieces. Collation: *4 A-2Q4 -2Q4 blank . Leaf E4 supplied from another copy trimmed . 1 vols. 4to 9-5/8 x 6-1/8 inches . Full brown antique calf blocked in blind and in black, board edges and turn-ins gilt, marbled endleaves, edges red, by Alfred Matthews. Fine copy in dark green pull-off case worn . Grässe I:359; Brunet

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