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Lot 5
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Adriaen Collaert ca.1560-1618

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Description

  • Adriaen Collaert
  • piscium vivae icones (see holl.648-678)
  • Overall size 302 by 228mm; 11 3/4 by 9 in
Album comprising over seventy engravings, circa 1570, from Piscium Vivae Icones, Avivum Vivae Icones, and Animalium Quadrupedum, many fine impressions, mostly with thread margins, in generally good condition, laid down on sheets of laid paper, bound in vellum-covered boards, folio (split in places)

Provenance

Following an inscription in pencil on front page ex coll. George Dawson Rowley (1822-1878), editor of ′Ornithological Miscellany'