Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 101

Price Realized: $ 250
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Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
STRADA, JACOBUS DE. Epitome thesauri antiquitatum. Printer's large woodcut device on title, woodcut arms of the dedicatee, Johann Jakob Fugger, on verso; 391 white-on-black woodcut medallion portraits in text. [86] (of [88]), 339, [3] pages; lacks L4 (errata). 4to, 243x161 mm, contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards with brass catches and one clasp (of 2), panel design on covers formed by concentric historiated rolls including one depicting Brazen Serpent and Reformation figures, spine defective, lower cover corners worn through; contents relatively clean with only few ink marginalia. Lyons: (Jean de Tournes for) Jacobus de Strada and Thomas Guerinus, 1553

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first edition of a collection of brief biographies of Roman and Holy Roman emperors from Julius Caesar to Charles V. Harvard/Mortimer-French 502.