Deorvm dearvmqve capita
Subtitle: ex vetustis numismatibus in gratiam antiquitatis studiosorum effigiata et edita : ex museo Abrahami Ortelii
Contributors: Galle, Philippe, 1537-1612
Publisher: Philippus Gallaeus excudebat
Published: 1573
Place of publication: Antuerpiae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 54
Subjects: Coin collections; Early works to 1800; Gods in numismatics; Pictorial works; Roman Numismatics
Other titles: Deorum dearumque capita
Notes: Dedication and prefatory epistle by Ortelius.

Printer from colophon.

Engraved t.p.

Heads of divinities and personifications engraved by Philippe Galle (see Bib. belgica), each in a roundel with broad border of strapwork and grotesquerie, incorporating 2 tablets for name of the figure represented and the coin from which it was taken.

"Scriptorvm vetervm ac recentivm, qvi ex professo deorvm gentilivm historias vel imagines descripservnt, elenchvs"--P. [7-8].

Bib. Belgica (1964-1970 éd.), IV, O.206

Binding: mottled sheepskin. Rebacked. Double fillets in gilt along edges of boards, spine good tooled. The edges sprinkled red. Theodore Besterman's booklabel centered on recto of front free pastedown.