AMMAN, Jost and VIRGIL SOLIS. Iconographia Regum Francorum dass ist Ein Eigentliche Abconterfeyning aller Könige in Franckreich . Translated by Michael Eytzinger. Cologne: Johan Buchssmacher, 1587.
AMMAN, Jost and VIRGIL SOLIS. Iconographia Regum Francorum dass ist Ein Eigentliche Abconterfeyning aller Könige in Franckreich . Translated by Michael Eytzinger. Cologne: Johan Buchssmacher, 1587. Small 4 o (196 x 155 mm). Title with engraved arms of France in ornamental border, 62 etched bust portraits after Amman and Solis within typographic frames interleaved at time of binding, 2 woodcut initials, woodcut tail-piece. (Scant spotting and staining.) Contemporary North German blind- and gold-tooled calf, divided into panels with triple fillets and roll-tooled ornamental borders surrounding a central oval ornamental tool, spine in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, paper hand-lettered label, blue edges with fore-edge marked "128" (rebacked, lacking cloth ties, a few small worm holes, some overall staining and wear, boards a little bowing). Provenance : Georg Planckh, priest (inscription on front pastedown dated 1684); John Slocum (pencil note on flyleaf); acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1988. FIRST GERMAN EDITION, second edition of this finely executed portrait book. The accompanying German text is by Michael Eytzinger, publicist and historian who was for some time in the service of emperors Ferdinand II and Maximilian II. The first edition of these plates was issued with a Latin text in Augsburg by Katharine Gerlack & Heirs of J. vom Berg 1576 (see previous lot). A third edition appeared in Cologne in 1598. Brunet I 234; Fairfax Murray German 154 (1574 Nuremberg edition); Lipperheide Fa 3.
AMMAN, Jost and VIRGIL SOLIS. Iconographia Regum Francorum dass ist Ein Eigentliche Abconterfeyning aller Könige in Franckreich . Translated by Michael Eytzinger. Cologne: Johan Buchssmacher, 1587.
AMMAN, Jost and VIRGIL SOLIS. Iconographia Regum Francorum dass ist Ein Eigentliche Abconterfeyning aller Könige in Franckreich . Translated by Michael Eytzinger. Cologne: Johan Buchssmacher, 1587. Small 4 o (196 x 155 mm). Title with engraved arms of France in ornamental border, 62 etched bust portraits after Amman and Solis within typographic frames interleaved at time of binding, 2 woodcut initials, woodcut tail-piece. (Scant spotting and staining.) Contemporary North German blind- and gold-tooled calf, divided into panels with triple fillets and roll-tooled ornamental borders surrounding a central oval ornamental tool, spine in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, paper hand-lettered label, blue edges with fore-edge marked "128" (rebacked, lacking cloth ties, a few small worm holes, some overall staining and wear, boards a little bowing). Provenance : Georg Planckh, priest (inscription on front pastedown dated 1684); John Slocum (pencil note on flyleaf); acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1988. FIRST GERMAN EDITION, second edition of this finely executed portrait book. The accompanying German text is by Michael Eytzinger, publicist and historian who was for some time in the service of emperors Ferdinand II and Maximilian II. The first edition of these plates was issued with a Latin text in Augsburg by Katharine Gerlack & Heirs of J. vom Berg 1576 (see previous lot). A third edition appeared in Cologne in 1598. Brunet I 234; Fairfax Murray German 154 (1574 Nuremberg edition); Lipperheide Fa 3.
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