May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 187

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
Boissard, Jean Jacques (1528-1602)
Icones Illustrium et Clarorum Vivorum Quorum Praecipue Opera Literae Humaniores & Pura Religio, Restauratae Sunt.

Geneva: Sumptibus Petri Chouët, 1673.

Quarto, title page printed within woodcut frame, content includes title; index; divisional titles; and eighty-three full page woodcut portraits, no text, bound in full parchment over boards, ex libris Sir George Shuckburgh, with his armorial bookplate inside front board, 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.

Portrait subjects include important Reformation theologians, European scholars, royalty, and others.

Worldcat locates only one copy of this title; rare at auction.