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REUSNER, NICOLAUS. Icones sive imagines virorum literis illustrium. Printer's woodcut device on title, and arms of the dedicatee, King Frederick II of Denmark, on verso; 100 large woodcut portraits by Tobias Stimmer. Title and each text page within type ornament border. [16], 428, [20] pages. bound with his:Januarius; sive, Fastorum sacrorum et historicorum liber primus. Folding letterpress table (bound facing page 1 in the preceding work). [8], 61, [3] leaves. Together, 2 volumes in one. 8vo, 169x104 mm, later 19th-century green morocco gilt by Lloyd, Wallis & Lloyd, spine lightly faded, front joint starting at top; contents lightly toned; gilt edges. Bookplate of Marquis Girolamo d'Adda (1815-1881), whose library was purchased en bloc by Charles Fairfax Murray. Strassburg: Bernhard Jobin, 1590; 1584
Third edition of a 1587 collection of portraits of prominent contemporary authors, scholars, religious figures, physicians, etc., accompanied by Latin and Greek verses about them by various authors; bound with the first edition of collection of verse commemorating notables from antiquity to the author's time who were born or died in the month of January, the second volume of which was published in 1586. Fairfax Murray/German 362 (this copy).
