Parnassus biceps
Subtitle: in cujus priore jugo musarum deorumque praesidum Hippocrenes : in altero deorum fatidicorum phoebadum, et vatum illustriorum qui priscis seculis oraculis, & praedictionibus claruerunt imagines proponuntur, & distichis latinis explicantur
By: à Ia. Iac. Boissard vesunt ; aeri incisa à Ioan. Theod. De Bry
Contributors: Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623?, engraver; Fitzer, William, approximately 1600-1671, publisher; Boissard, Robert, ca. 1570-ca. 1601, engraver
Publisher: Sumptibus Wilhelmi Fitzeri
Published: 1627
Place of publication: Francofurti
Language: lat
Number of pages: 33
Subjects: Muses (Greek deities) in art; Early works to 1800; Gods, Greek, in art; Mythology, Classical, in art
Other titles: Parnassvs biceps
Notes: Signatures: *⁴ 2*⁶.

Engraved title page by de Bry and a portrait of Boissard (unsiged) included in pagination.

Title printed within engraved architectural border.

Woodcut head- and tail-pieces; initial.

13 of the plates are signed by de Bry, 6 are signed B. or R.B (i.e. Robert Boissard), 14 are unsigned.

Brunet I, 1068

VD17 14:019647M

Binding: mottled calf with blind tooled panel design on front and rear boards; spine with gilt label; all edges gilt.