Online auction - Lot 133

[Portraits - Antwerp]

OPMEER, Petrus, O.F.M.; BEYERLINCK, Laurentius

Opus chronographicum orbis universi a mundi exordio usque ad annum M.DC.XI. [...].

Antwerp, H. Verdussen, 1611


Starting bid: € 30


Hammer price: € 130

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Lot description

2 parts in 1 vol., folio: [8 (of 12)]-516-[32], 338 pp. (engr. title mounted, prelims strengthened at margins, ff. +2-3 missing in part I and last 2 index ff. in part II, browning, staining).

Contemp. sheep (rubbed, scratched, corners, head & tail renewed), spine with 5 raised bands.

Extensive world chronology-cum-biographical dictionary by 2 Dutch humanists, illustrated with 479 woodcut medallion portraits of i.a. Erasmus, Da Vinci, Bosch, Montezuma, Vives, Aldus, Morus, Vesalius, Ignatius, Lipsius etc. With an engr. portrait of Opmeer and his biography by Valerius Andreas. Engr. general title by W. de Haen.
Ref. Simoni (BL) O-20. - STCV.
Prov. Ms. entries (some erased).

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Lot 133

Opus chronographicum orbis universi a mundi exordio usque ad annum M.DC.XI. [...].

OPMEER, Petrus, O.F.M.; BEYERLINCK, Laurentius

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