Strada, Jacobus de.

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

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Description

Imperatorum romanorum omnium orientalium et occidentalium verissimae imagines. Zurich: Andreas Gesner, 1559
paper

Folio (474 x 360mm.), title within woodcut border, 118 woodcut portraits of emperors within borders, woodcut border on every text page, seventeenth-century vellum, small armorial stamp in centre of covers, lower outer corners of first few leaves repaired in margins, slight chipping in fore-margin of V1-2, binding soiled and with small hole on upper cover

Provenance

Ducal Library of Gotha, stamp; Constantin Carathéodory, bookplate

Literature

Harvard French Catalogue 502 note

Catalogue Note

First edition. The woodcut borders surrounding the medallion portraits are the largest ever cut for a book from a single block.