Icones siue imagines viuae, literis cl. virorum, Italiae, Graeciae, Germaniae, Galliae, Angliae, Vngariae. : ex typis Valdkirchianis in lucem productae: cum elogiis variis. /
Reusner, Nikolaus,1545-1602.
Stimmer, Tobias,1539-1584,engraver.
Zwinger, Theodor,1533-1588.
Waldkirch, Conrad von,active 1583-1616,printer.
Dalzell, Jacobi,former owner.StEdNL
Lorimer, William Laughton,1885-1967,former owner.StEdNL
Basileae : Apud Conr. Valdkirch.,
1589..
The imprint date is apostrophic.
Portraits by Tobias Stimmer.
Text within decorative rule-border throughout.
Printer's device on verso of final leaf.
Tail-pieces, initials.
A series of portraits of notable men of the XVth and XVIth centuries (with a few earlier) mostly after paintings in the portrait-gallery of Paolo Giovio, accompanied by epigrams and laudatory verses.
Includes index.
Adams
Manuscript inscription on the verso of the front free endpaper "Ex libris Jacobi Dalzell, V.D.M." and on the recto of the first flyleaf "Liber Willelmi L. Lorimer Sanctandreensis MDCCCCXX".
Later parchment binding, double gilt border, gilt title, date and motif on spine.
Portraits
Biography
Scholars
Switzerland Basel.