Beheer

LOT 391
€900,00 - €1200,00

(Holbein, H.). Icones historiarum veteris testamenti,

ad vivum expressae, extrémaque diligentia emendatiores factae, Gallicis in expositione homoeoteleutis, ac versuum ordinibus (qui priùs turbati, ac impares) suo numero restitutis. Lyon, I. Frellon, 1547. (102) p., w. woodcut title-vignette, 94 woodcuts printed one to a page, between Latin text and Gilles Corrozet's 4-line French translation; final page w. 4 sm. woodcuts dep. the Evangelists. Old calf, sm. 4to. Mediocre copy: lacks final (colophon) leaf; waterst. throughout; covers loose; spine and outer corners of covers dam. Sold w.a.f. The second of two editions printed in 1547, with the fifth line of the title ending 'emendatiores', and the first line of the French text on L1r ending 'prophete'. Holbein's famous woodcuts first appeared in 1538.

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