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Numismatica - Huttich, Johann

Imperatorum et Caesarum vitae, cum imaginibus ad uiuam effigiem expressis. (First part). Consulum Romanorum elenchus. Cum Caesarean privilege, 1534

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€ 200 - 300

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€ 448

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Information

[Strasbourg, W. Koephel], 1534. In 4°. 2 parts in 1 vol. Two title pages contained in an elegant figured frame, 268 medallions depicting the Roman emperors, illustrations and decorations, full-page printer's brand on paper V6v and at the end of the volume, all finely engraved in wood on a black background, lacuna at the top of the title page supplied with handwritten paper, gap in the lower part of V3 and X2 supplied with handwritten paper, folded handwritten insert between leaves A2 and A3, slight foxing, some rare redness, binding of a later period in half parchment, handwritten title on the spine, some abrasions , minor flaws. § Simeoni, GabrieleIllustration de gli epitaffi et medalglie anticaLyon, Giovan di Tournes, 1558. In 4°. Beautiful woodcut vignette on the title page, portrait of the author on the verso, numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, detached title page, small gap in the lower margin of the first two leaves, light browning, restoration in the outer margin of the last two leaves, without binding. 


Specialist Notes

I operate: Fourth, finely illustrated woodcut edition by Hans Weiditz (1495 - 1537), and the first to contain the supplement on the Consuls. Adams, 1247; Brunet II, p. 667.