Lot 256
  • 256

[Numismatique] -- Gerbel, Nicolas

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200 - 300 EUR
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Description

  • [Numismatique] -- Gerbel, Nicolas
  • Icones imperatorum, et breves vitae.Strasbourg, Craton Mylius, mai 1544.
première édition. In-8 (162 x 105 mm). Brochure moderne.



illustration : marques typographiques de Crato Mylius de formats différents, et 96 portraits en médaillon gravés en blanc sur fond noir.
Mouillure angulaire et une très pâle mouillure plus large. Traces d'humidité dans les 5 derniers feuillets.

Condition

Mouillure angulaire et une très pâle mouillure plus large. Traces d'humidité dans les 5 derniers feuillets.
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Catalogue Note

L'auteur dresse, sur le modèle des Illustrium imagines (voir les lots précèdents) une nomenclature des empereurs romains de César à Charles-Quint et Ferdinand I, avec de courtes notices biographiques empruntées généralement à Ausone, Jakob Moltzer dit Micyllus et Caspar Ursinus Velius.