GOLTZIUS, Hubert

In-folio, 174 unnumbered lvs. Frontispiece in chiaroscuro (printed in woodcut and etching). Illustrated with 133 very faithful chiaroscuro portraits after the images on ancient coins, all backgrounds coloured, the colours vary in shade from one to another. ""These illustrations are remarkable as one of the earliest processes of chiaroscuro printing in which a combination of etched plates and wood-blocks was used."" With several roundels left empty. On the left pages the biography of the depicted prince. Etchings by Joos Gietleughen of Courtrai, Flemish painter, after Goltzius' drawings. As is, no doubt, always the case, the colour of the portraits has occasionally offset on the facing page. The preliminaries are browned and spotted a usual. Otherwise, a good copy. Bound in 18th century calf, blue edges, marbled end-lvs, spine richly gilt, morocco title-piece, ends of spine repaired