Fendt, T. Monumenta sepulcrorum cum epigraphis ingenio et doctrina excellentium virorum:

aliorumque tam prisci quam nostri seculi memorabilium hominum: de archetypis expressa (...). Breslau (Wroclaw), Tobias Fendt, 1574, w. engr. title-page, 10 pages of letterpress text and 129 full page engravings by Fendt, numbered 1-125 and 3*, 13*, 16* and 19*, followed by 2 EXTRA engravings by Frantz Friderich (1520-1584), 19th cent. boards, sm. folio. Nice printing flaws, which may be considered as defects, but at the same time attest to the manual production process combined w. commercial need for speed, include plate 4 (the paper sheet was folded when it was placed under the press, resulting- after the binder had straightened the leaf - in an obliquely detached portion of the image, and plate 49 is printed upside down. The title is cut sl. short. Spine torn at the joints, covers stained. From the library of Comte E. du Tertre, w. his heraldic bookplate on upper pastedown, also w. unidentified heraldic library stamp on title. First edition of this rare collection of sepulchral architecture and inscriptions from the fifth century B.C. to the sixteenth century, published at the instigation of the Breslau councillor Seyfried Ribisch (or Rybisch). Adams F227 (125 plates); Berlin Katalog 3673. Cf. Cicognara 4008 (edition of 1589).