15. Antverpiae , Ex Officina Plantiniana , Apud Ioannem Moretum , 1606, small in-4°, 200 x 155 mm , engraved title + typographical title (with engraved printer's mark) + (6)nn pp (dedication to cardinal Aldobrandino) + 88 pp + (4)nn pp (index) + pp 3-8 + (4)pp(index) + 151 portrait engravings printed on one side only + (2)(blank) + (1)(subtitle , appendix) + (1)(bl) + 22 portrait engravings (numbered A-I,K-R). Complete, engraved title of the second part bound before the title of the first part. Bound in full contemporary red morocco in the style of '' Du Seuil ''. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. (one corner slightly bumped). Very nice copy notwithstanding a small light brown stain on the engraved title. Bibliography: Manfred Sellink, Philips Galle, Engraver and Print publisher in Haarlem and Antwerp, Amsterdam 1997, II, pp 228-230 ( appendix 2C). New Hollstein, Galle , vol. IV, pp 27-29 and 35-197. Dirk Imhof ( Moretus and the Plantin Press) Item G-6..
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