Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 47

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
CARTARI, VINCENZO. Imagines deorum, qui ab antiquis colebantur. Latin translation by Antoine Du Verdier. Full-page woodcut portrait of the translator and 88 text illustrations of pagan deities and mythological figures. [8], 359, [57] pages. 4to, 212x145 mm, later vellum boards, soiled, spine chipped in a couple of places; contents toned. Signature of Tho. Brown of Trinity College, Cambridge, dated 1823; 19th-century armorial bookplate of Brown of Waterhaughs. Lyon: (Guichard Julliéron for) Barthélemy Honorat, 1581

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first edition in latin of Cartari's manual of classical iconography, originally published in Italian without illustrations in 1556. Harvard/Mortimer-French 129.