Icones veterum aliquot, ac recentium medicorum, philosophorumque elogiolis suis editae.

Folio: VII-[1 bl., 1, 1 bl., 1, 1 bl.] pp. + 67 full-page portraits.

Mod. cloth, flat spine with morocco label, original printed wrappers bound with. Very good copy (a few minor spots).

Facsimile of the Plantin edition of 1574 (Plantin Press 2175), introduced by Max Rooses. With 67 portraits by Peter van der Borcht, lithographically reproduced. These represent physicians and philosophers from Antiquity and modern times, e.g. Fernelius, Vesalius, Gesnerus, Fuxius, Matthiolus, Biesius, Cardanus, Scaliger, Paracelsus.