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265 portraits of celebrities in 10 different editions, from the library of Jean de Boulonois

[SAXONY].
Saxoniae ducum caesarib. creand. viivirum; et caeserorum a Friderico I. ad Christianum II. fratres et agnatos. Genuinae effig: Cum collect. et epigramm. Marci Henningi. A.

With engraved title-page, full-page map of Saxony and Thüringen in a cartouche, full-page coat of arms of the Saxomian king, and engraved dedication, beautifully engraved head- and tailpieces and 21 engraved portraits (ca. 182 x 128 mm.) of Saxonian monarchs and dukes from Frederik I Bellicosus till Johannes Ernestus II.

With engraved title-page, full-page map of Saxony and Thüringen in a cartouche, full-page coat of arms of the Saxomian king, and engraved dedication, beautifully engraved head- and tailpieces and 21 engraved portraits (ca. 182 x 128 mm.) of Saxonian monarchs and dukes from Frederik I Bellicosus till Johannes Ernestus II.

With engraved title-page, full-page map of Saxony and Thüringen in a cartouche, full-page coat of arms of the Saxomian king, and engraved dedication, beautifully engraved head- and tailpieces and 21 engraved portraits (ca. 182 x 128 mm.) of Saxonian monarchs and dukes from Frederik I Bellicosus till Johannes Ernestus II.

With engraved title-page, full-page map of Saxony and Thüringen in a cartouche, full-page coat of arms of the Saxomian king, and engraved dedication, beautifully engraved head- and tailpieces and 21 engraved portraits (ca. 182 x 128 mm.) of Saxonian monarchs and dukes from Frederik I Bellicosus till Johannes Ernestus II.

With engraved title-page, full-page map of Saxony and Thüringen in a cartouche, full-page coat of arms of the Saxomian king, and engraved dedication, beautifully engraved head- and tailpieces and 21 engraved portraits (ca. 182 x 128 mm.) of Saxonian monarchs and dukes from Frederik I Bellicosus till Johannes Ernestus II.



Augsburg, Ex caelatura et officina. Dominicus Custos eiconoge, 1601. Folio. Contemporary full brown calf, both sides magnificently tooled in gold with a floral roll along the edges and four cornerpieces, an oval gilt coat of arms in a wreath with the motto 'Ad Aethera virtus' in the centre, spine profusely gilt in compartments and lettered in gold.The coat of arms is of Jean de Boulonois a clergyman from the Collège at Abbeville and so the book was in his possession ('un chevron chargé de trois besants (boules=Boulonnois) acc. de trois étoiles'). With engraved title-page, full-page map of Saxony and Thüringen in a cartouche, full-page coat of arms of the Saxomian king, and engraved dedication, beautifully engraved head- and tailpieces and 21 engraved portraits (ca. 182 x 128 mm.) of Saxonian monarchs and dukes from Frederik I Bellicosus till Johannes Ernestus II. 34 lvs.

With:
(2) GENEALOGIA serenissimor. Boiariae ducum et quorundam genuinae effigies. A Wolffg. Kiliano Aug. aeri incisae.
Augsburg, Johann Praetorius for Dominicus Custos, 1605. Folio. 16 leaves.
Engraved title-page, 9 engraved half-page portraits (176x122mm.) by Wolfgang Kilian (1581- Augsburg -1662) who worked for this step-father Dominicus Custos. After Custos's death in 1616 Kilian founded his own printer's shop. Printer's device of Dominicus Custos on the verso of the last leaf. Origianl edition of these beautiful portraits.
(Thieme-Becker, XX, p. 302-3; A. Hämmerle, Die Augsb. Künstlerfam. Kilian (1922)).

(3) HENNINGUS, Marcus.
Tirolensium principum comitum ab an. Virg. partus M.CC.XXIX usque ad ann. MDC. genuinae eicones. Singulorum insignia: quorundam emblemata.
Augsburg, Johannes Praetorius for Dominicus Custos, 1599. Folio. 38 leaves with the last blank.
Engraved title-page, engraved dedication and full-page engraved coat of arms, engaved map of Tirol in cartouche and 28 full-page portraits (ca. 220x140mm.). Original edition of this work on the monarchs of Titol. In the same year there appeared also two editions printed by Johan Schultes for Dominicum Custos.
(Jöcher-Adel., II, col. 1917; VD 16, H 1932).

(4) BARLANDUS, Adrianus.
Chroniques des ducs de Brabant, composees par adrian Barlande, rhetoricien de Louvain, et nouvellement enriches de leurs figures & pourtraits. Par la despense & vigilance de Jean Bapt. Vrient.
Antwerp, Jean Baptist Vrints, 1603. Folio. (18), 192, (6) pp. With engraved coat of arms on the title, engraved dedicatioon, double-page map of Brabant, dated 1599 and 36 full-page portraits (ca. 208x136mm.). First French edition of this historical work by Barlandus (1486-1538) on the dukes of Brabant. The origianl Latin edition appeared in 1526 under the title Rerum gestarum a Brabantiae ducibus historia.
(Bibl. Belg., I, p. 173).

(5) MARTIN, Cornelius.
Les genealogies, et anciennes descentes des forestiers et comtes de Flandre, avec brieves descriptions de leurs vies et gestes le tout recueilly des plus veritables, approvees et anciennes croniques et annales qui se trouvent, par Corneille Marti Zelandoys, et ornees de portraicts figures et habitz selon les facons et guises de leurs temps, ainsi quelles ont estie trouvvees es' plus anciens tableaux, par Pierre Balthasar, et par Luimesme, mises en lumiere.
Antwerp, Jacques Mesens for Jean Baptist Vrints, 1598. Folio. (6), 120 pp.
With engraved title-page, engraved dedication and map of Flandres, 40 full-page portraits (ca. 205x142mm.) and an engraved allegorical plate with an engraved poem by Ch. de Navieres underneath on the last leaf.
With poem 'for the reader' by Jan van der Noot.
Second edition of this fine series of portraits of the counts and foresters of Flanders. The first edition was printed in Antwerp by A. Bax for Pierre Balthasar in 1580.
(Belg. Typogr. 2060).

(6) GALLE, Philippus.
Les vies et alliances des comtes de Hollande et Zelande, seigneurs de Frise.
Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin for Philippus Galle, 1586. Folio. 75, (3) pp.
With title vignette of the Dutch Virgin in an enclosure, engraved by Philippus Galle in 1578 and 36 full-page portraits (ca. 208x122mm.) of the counts of Holland and Zealand, engraved, also in 1578, by Philippus Galle after the drawings by Michael Thibaut.
Second edition (with a French title-page) of the plates that originally illustrated the famous historical work by Michael Vosmeer: Principes Hollandiae et Zelandiae (Antwerp, Christ. Plantin, 1578)
(Sellink, I, p. 65; II, Plates 2,48-9; not in Belg. Typogr.)

(7) PASSE the elder, Chrispijn de.
Effigies regum ac principum, eorum scilicet, quorum vis ac potentia in re nautica seu marina prae caeteris spectabilis est ... Summa diligentia et artificio depictae, et tabellis aeneis incisae à Crispiano Passaeo Zelando. Adiectis in singulas hexastichis Matthaeiae Quadi chalcographi.
(Cologne, 1598).
(1 katern: 6 leaves with the text in letterpress: 'Initium artis navigandi, eiusque praecipui autores et acto', dated: Coloniae, 1598, ipso die Theophoriae.)
With engraved title-page, 4 added engravings of ships and 2 engraved celestial maps (Imagines coeli septentrionales and Meridionales) and the 18 portraits (ca. 138x100mm.)belonging to this edition. Added are the beautiful portrait of Fredrik Henry (Hollstein 728) and a second portrait of Maurits (Hollstein 789, dated 1600) and 2 other portraits, pasted on the versos of two portraits: the portraits of Christian IIII of Denmark and Francis Drake, opposite the portraits of the same men by Van de Passe), most of them signed by Crispijn van de Passe and dated 1595-1598.
(Hollstein, XV, nr. 850).

Added are 27 (out of 51) portaits of political figures and authors from the Low Countries from:
(8) GALLE, Philippus.
Illustrium Galliae Belgicae scriptorum icones et elogi.
Antwerpen, Philippus Galle, 1604.
Without a title-page. The portraits (ca. 172x118mm.) are: Viglius Zuichemus (19), Gabriel Mudaeus (20), Franciscus Balduinus (21), Jodocus Damhouder (22), , Jacobus Raevardus (23), Petrus Peckius (24), Joannes Wamesius (25), Joh. Goropius Becanus (31), Joannes Beverus Hanno (34), Erasmus (35b), Augustinus Hunnaeus (35), Patrus Nannius (36), Cornelius Valerius (37), and 38-51 (a.o. Willem Canter (40), Jan Lievens (41), Ogier Ghislain de Busbeck (44), Abraham Ortelius (45), Janus Secundus (46), Nicolaus Grudius (47)), Macopedius (48)). all with engraved poem by Franciscus Raphelengius or A. Miraeus, Jac. Rol, Janus Lernutius and others underneath.
(Sellink, II, p. 231-3)

(9) GALLE, Philippus.
Virorum doctorum de disciplinis benemerentium effigies XLIIII a Philippo Galleo.
Antwerp, Philippus Galle, 1572.
Engraved title-page, 26 (out of 44) engraved portraits (ca. 175x 123mm.) on large paper.
Among the very first works Phillip Galle published at Antwerp were two large series of portraits, indicating that the genre was very dear to him and that he must have held high hopes on its commercial success. One of them is a re-edition of his series of the Virorum doctorum effigies published in Haarlem in 1567 of which, however, no complete copy is known; perhaps it was even never published in his final form. The new and revised compilation of 44 portraits - all of which are engraved by Phillip Galle himself) consists of an engraved title-page with two female personifications holding a banderolle with the inscription 'Sapientiae hominum cultrici P.', referring to the everlasting memory of human wisdom (Sellink, fig. 2,11) and the table of contents with the 'Approbatio' in letterpress. The preface by Galle (2 pp.) is lacking. Then follow 26 (out of 44) portraits with the inscriptions underneath engraved in the copperplates: being the second issue (1572b edition). These verses were by the Spanish humanist Benito Arias Montano. Among the 26 portraits are those of Aeneas Silvius, Benito Arias Montano, Bilibaldus Pirckheimer, Christ. Plantin, Dante, Petrarca, Hadrianus Junius, Bocaccio, Joh. Douza, Joh. Fischer, Louis Vives, Petrus Apianus, Petrus Bembus and Rembertus Dodonaeus. This 1572 edition aims at providing the contemporary reader with a selection of the foremost humanits and scholars of the time.
(Sellink, I, p. p.48-53, II, App. 2B; Belg. Typogr. 1219).

(10) Added are 40 (out of 50) portraits (ca. 170x124mm.) from the 1587 edition, the promised supplement to the 1572 edition: the nrs. 1 (Thomas Aquino). 2, 5, 8-9, 11 (Lamb. Hortensius), 12, 13 (Andreas Scott (both versions), 14-22, 29 (Carolus Clusius), 30-31, 32 (Aldus Manutius), 33-36, 37 (Aretino), 38, 39 (Gerard Mercator), 40 (Seb. Münster), 41-46, 48-50, + Franciscus Simenius, Cardin. Hispaniae.
(Sellink, I, p. 53-7; II, App. 2C; Belg. Typogr. 1211).


Good copy with the engravings printed on large folio leaves from the library of Jean de Boulonois, the rector of the Gymnasium at Abbeville, North-Western France: ownership's entry dated 1608 on the first title.- (Some browning at places; some waterstaining in the upper margin; with many very interesting annotations in contemporary handwriting (in nrs. 7-10) containing mostly biographical data and verses on some of the persons depicted).

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