Accession number:
PML 151176
Published:
Copenhaven : Henrico Waltkirch, Anno domini 1606.
Description:
[6], 256 pages : illustrated (191 engravings), 1 coat of arms, 2 ports. ; 33 cm (fol)
Credit:
Bequest of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Notes:
Colophon: Si fini distampare li discorsi, adi 25. Settembre M.DC. VI. Nella citta di Coponaghen, Metropli del Regno di Dania, Appresso Hendrich Walchirchen.
Nicolaus Andreae of Flensburg engraved the title page and portraits of Fabris.
Includes 191 engravings, variously signed: "I.h. sculp" for Jan van Halbeeck and "FV" for Francesco Valesio.
Title page to part II, p. [151].
Binding:
20th-century half red goatskin with marbled paper sides, by Julia Wightman, 1950.
Provenance:
Alexander William Lindsay (1812-1880), 25th Earl of Crawford & Balcarres, inherited by his son: James Ludovic Lindsay (1847-1913), 26th Earl of Crawford & Balcarres (Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Catalogue of the printed books preserved at Haigh hall, Wigan (1910), vol. II, 3273); Julia P. Wightman, purchased in 1945.
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