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REUSNER, NICOLAUS. Icones sive imagines vivae, literis cl. virorum, Italiae, Graeciae, Germaniae, Galliae, Angliae, Ungariae . . . cum elogiis variis. 90 large woodcut portraits attributed to Tobias Stimmer. Title and each text page within type ornament border. [176] leaves. 8vo, 166x108 mm, contemporary polychrome binding of vellum boards gilt-tooled to design of interlacing strapwork on stippled ground with ornament of 3 interlacing crescents in center, the whole accentuated with red, green, and black paint, covers slightly warped; gilt edges, gauffered with repeated impression of the 3 crescents. Basel: Konrad von Waldkirch, 1589
Second edition of a 1587 collection of portraits of prominent contemporary literary figures, scholars, religious figures, physicians, et al., accompanied by Latin and Greek verses about them by various authors. Adams R409; Lipperheide (1963) 495.
