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Bibliotheca Chalcographica. Hoc est virtute et eruditione clarorum virorum imagines, collectore Iano-Iacobo Boissardo, Vesunt., sculptore Theodoro De Bry, Leod., primum editæ, et ab ipsorum obitu hactenus contunuatæ.

Title
Bibliotheca Chalcographica. Hoc est virtute et eruditione clarorum virorum imagines, collectore Iano-Iacobo Boissardo, Vesunt., sculptore Theodoro De Bry, Leod., primum editæ, et ab ipsorum obitu hactenus contunuatæ.
Author
Boissard, Jean Jacques, 1528-1602.
Publication
Heidelbergæ, Impensis Clementis Ammonj bibliopolæ, 1669.

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Additional Authors
  • Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598.
  • Furck, Sebastian, 1589-1666.
  • Ammon, Klemens, active 17th century.
  • Boissard, Jean Jacques, 1528-1602.
Description
5 v. in 1 (438 ports.); 21 cm.
Subject
Note
  • For variations see: Graesse, I, 475/
  • Engraved title within pictorial border.
  • The first volume contains the plates of the author's Icones virorum illustrium. (5th ed.). The second to fifth volumes (each with special t. p., engraved) are designated as pars VI-IX of the Bibliotheca, and "Continuatio I-[IV]" of the Icones.
  • Pars VI has imprint: Heidelbergæ, Impensis Clementis Ammoni Bibl. [n. d.]; pars VII: Francfordij ad Moenum, Impensis Clementis Āmonij, bibliopolæ et chalcographi, 1669; pars VIII-IX have no imprint.
  • Portraits of pars VI engraved by Sebastian Furck; those of pars VII-VIII by Klemens Ammon; t. p. and several portraits of pars IX signed: M. v. Sommer f.; several portraits of pars IX signed following caption: Heim f.
  • Without text except lists of names for each volume and in general a distich below each portrait (wanting in pars VI)
  • Binding, contemporary, of vellum, with blind-stamped ornament on front and back covers.
  • Provenance: Earl of Fife (bookplate).
Call Number
Spencer Coll. Ger. 1669 74-441
OCLC
  • 43183199
  • NYPG754067710-B
Author
Boissard, Jean Jacques, 1528-1602.
Title
Bibliotheca Chalcographica. Hoc est virtute et eruditione clarorum virorum imagines, collectore Iano-Iacobo Boissardo, Vesunt., sculptore Theodoro De Bry, Leod., primum editæ, et ab ipsorum obitu hactenus contunuatæ.
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Heidelbergæ, Impensis Clementis Ammonj bibliopolæ, 1669.
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Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598. Illustrator
Furck, Sebastian, 1589-1666. Illustrator
Ammon, Klemens, active 17th century. Illustrator
Boissard, Jean Jacques, 1528-1602. Icones virorum illustrium.
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Spencer Coll. Ger. 1669 74-441
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