‎MIRAEUS Aubertus - LE MIRE - Theodorus GALLE :‎
‎Illustrium Galliae Belgicae sciptorum icones et elogia.‎

‎" Antverpiae (Antwerpen), Apud Theodorum Galle, 1608, in-4°, 23,5 x 17 cm, engraved title + engraved coat of arms + 2 engraved text leaves + 57 pages with full page engraved portraits + 1 supplementary portrait. 19th century full brown leather binding with elaborate gilt decoration, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt (Dewatines). The joints have been expertly restored. Funck 362; Hollstein VIII 82, 735-786. First edition of this portrait gallery of which 52 portaits were engraved by Philippe Galle. At the end is bound in the portrait of Plantin engraved by Hubert Goltzius. The portraits are numbered 1-51, further 6b, 12b, 30b, 35b,+ 3 nn at the end. They include pictures of Agricola, Canisius, Josse de Damhoudere, Gemma Frisius, Abraham Ortelius, Andreas Vesalius, Thomas à Kempis,Justus Lipsius...Apart from one tiny hole in plate 3 a very nice near spotless copy of a rare early 17th century portrait gallery or iconography of famous scientist and writers of the Low Countries."‎

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