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Lot 151

STRADA (JACOBUS DE)
Imperatorum Romanorum onmium orientalium et occidentalium verissimae imagines ex antiquis numismatis quam fidelissime delineatae, Zurich, Andreas Gesner, 1559

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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STRADA (JACOBUS DE)

Imperatorum Romanorum onmium orientalium et occidentalium verissimae imagines ex antiquis numismatis quam fidelissime delineatae, title within decorative woodcut border, 118 full-page woodcut medallion portraits by Rudolf Wyssenbach after Rudolf Manuel Deutsch, each within an architectural border, text on verso within woodcut border of putti, fruit and grotesques, and with arabesque ornaments by P. Flotner, with blank a6, without blank v6, title and dedication leaf strengthened with old strip of paper at fore-edge without affecting printed area, final 9 leaves (f.111-118 and index leaf) with some losses to printed area (touching portrait on f.118), f.109 and 110 with small hole and old paper repair, light dampstain to one corner of a few leaves, later blindstamped vellum over boards, some loss to upper cover, spine worn [Adams S1919, the 3 copies all without the blanks], folio (480 x 370mm.), Zurich, Andreas Gesner, 1559

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The folio edition of the celebrated series of 118 Renaissance portraits of the Roman Emperors, based upon medals in the collection of Jacopo Strada, an antiquary of Mantua.

Provenance: Reynolds Stone (1909-1979), with pencil note "A[ndrew]. R. Stone's copy, £8.8.0" inside upper cover; thence by descent to the present owner.

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