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FENDT, Tobias

Monumenta sepulcrorum cum epigraphis ingenio et doctrina excellentium virorum: aliorumque tam prisci quam nostri seculi memorabilium hominum: de archetypis expressa
Breslau (Wroclaw)
1574
€1.500 - €1.800

In-folio (29,5 x 20,5 cm), with beautifully engraved title-page, 10 pages of text and 129 full page engravings by Fendt, numbered 1-125, with 4 extra plates. Followed by an additional 2 engravings by Frantz Friderich (fl. 1520-1584), showing the portrait and epitaph of Duke Widukind of Saxony (c.755-807/825). The two additional engravings are age-toned (different paper). Crease in pl. 4, the image was not printed entirely well because of this. Plate 49 is upside down. Later blue boards (18th or 19th c.), red edges

FIRST EDITION of this rare collection of sepulchral architecture and inscriptions from the fifth century B.C. (the tomb of Euripides) to the sixteenth. It was published at the instigation of the Breslau councillor Seyfried Ribisch (or Rybisch). Provenance: with the heraldic ex-libris of Count E. du Tertre Ref. Adams F227 (only 125 plates); Berlin Katalog 3673; VD 16 F727; Cicognara 4008 (1589 edition)

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