PROMPTUARIUM] - Prima pars Promtuarii iconum insigniorum a - Lot 212

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PROMPTUARIUM] - Prima pars Promtuarii iconum insigniorum a - Lot 212
PROMPTUARIUM] - Prima pars Promtuarii iconum insigniorum a selecto hominum, subiectis eorum vitis, per compendium ex probatissimis autoribus desumptis. (Followed by:) Promptuarii iconum pars secunda incipit a Christo nato, perpetuam ducens seriem usque Christianissimum Francorum Regem Henricum hoc nomine secundum, hodie feliciter regnantem. Lugduni (Lyon), Gulielmum Rovillium (Guil. Rouillé), 1578. 2 parts in one vol. in-4, (2) ff. 172 pp. (2) ff. ; 311 pp., (4) ff. old vellum with flaps. BAUDRIER IX, 368. Second enlarged edition. Book decorated with 824 woodcut medals offering portraits of famous men, from Adam to Henry II. The medallion portraits are drawn by Corneille de Lyon, engraved by Georges Reverdy, and many other anonymous masters. Two leaves not reported by Baudrier with biographies of contemporaries such as Belleforest, P. de la Primauldaye, André Thevet, Laurent Joubert etc. have been inserted between pages 296 and 297.
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