Icones Novi Testamenti arte et industria singulari exprimentes, tum evangeliorum dominicalium argumenta: tum alia quamplurima, in evangelistarum et apostolorum scriptis eximia. Quae, ne muta essent, sua quoque tam latina, quam germanica carmina, singulis iconibus adiuncta, habent. Cum brevi quadam artis pictoriae, in epistola dedicatoria, apologia.

Oblong 4to: [104] ff. (loosening, spotting and browning, traces of mould, some tears, some ff. waterstained, wormhole in blank margin, 18th-c. ms. annot.).

17th-c. dark brown calf, gilt orn. spine with raised bands (very used, spine broken, a shabby copy).

First and only edition of this rare beautiful complete set of 93 woodcuts by Jost Amman (1539-1591), considered as his masterpiece, depicting scenes of the New Testament with elegant characters in realistic scenes and containing numerous details or architectural perspectives, giving this book great historical value. With a dedicatory epistle in which Sigmund Feyerabend (1528-1590) praised Germany's most famous painters and engravers. After Dürer, Amman should be considered as one of the most important German engravers of the 16th c.
Ref. VD16 I-36. - STC German (BL) 124. - USTC 664941. - BnF. - Not in Adams, Bartsch, Fairfax Murray, German Books, Opac KBR.
Prov. Philippe Frerad (18th-c. ms. ownership entry).
Bound with, same condition: Künstliche wolgerissene wolproportionerte figuren und albildungen [...]. Strassburg, B. Jobin, 1590. 36 ff. Separate publication of the plates for the famous treatise on venery by Jacques du Fouilloux, edited in folio by Jobin the same year, with 68 nice pl. depicting hunting scenes, animals and rural landscapes, incl. 10 with the monogram of Christophe Maurer (1558-1614). Very rare. Ref. Nissen (ZBI) 117. - Bartsch IX:199-200. - Not in VD16, USTC, Adams.