Bibliotheca chalcographica
Subtitle: illustrium virtute atque eruditione in tota Europa, clarissimorum virorum ...
By: Collectore Jano Jacobo Boissardo, ves[unt], sculptore Jan: Theod: de Bry ...
Series: Cicognara library
Publisher: impensis Johannis Ammonii
Published: 1650
Place of publication: Francofurti
Language: lat
Subjects: Engraving; European Portraits; Early works to 1800; Portraits; Engraving and Engravings
Notes: Engraved title within pictorial border.

The portraits are numbered consecutively in ms. 1-438. (235 pl.)

Pts. 1-5 issued with collective t.-p.; pts. 6-9 have special engraved title-pages.

Imprints vary.

Orig. issued in 9 parts; vol. 2 has no general title-page but separate title pages for parts 6-9: part 9 printed in Heidelberg.

No restrictions on access copy. Unrestricted online access

Cicognara, 1998

Grässe I, 475

Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Table of contents: title: Part 1 consists of the plates of the Icones virorum illustrium. Parts 2-5 are described as parts 6-9 of the Bibliotheca, or continuations 1-4 of the Icones.