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HILLESSEMIUS, LUDOVICUS. Sacrarum antiquitatum monumenta; Patriarcharum, Regum, Prophetarum et virorum vere illustrium veteris Testamenti,Imaginibus et Elogiis apparata atque inscripta. Full-page engraved portrait of the author and 39 large text illustrations by Jan Sadeler after Crispin van den Broeck and Petrus van der Borcht. [16], 95 pages. 8vo, old red morocco, spine darkened and worn; occasional marginal soiling and minor stains. Burlington Fine Arts Club bookplate and embossed stamps. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1577
First edition of a collection of poems about characters in the Hebrew Bible, with illustrations of each. Funck, page 333. With the signature of the Pre-Raphaelite author William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919) dated 1865.
