Live auction - Lot 122
[Flemish]
"Icones Illustrium Feminarum Veteris Testamenti".
Antwerp, Theodoor Galle, ca. 1590-1595
€ 250 / 400
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Lot description
8vo: title and 20 engravings, 15,6 x 9,5 cm (platemark), laid paper with partial watermarks, signed in plate "Ioan Collaert sculp".
Mod. half vellum covers.
Rare complete series of 20 very nice plates and ornamented title, showing Old Testament women after Maarten de Vos, with Latin moralising verses by Cornelis Kiliaan in lower margin. Second state (of 4) with Galle's address on title.
Ref. New Hollstein (Collaert Dynasty), 86-105.2.