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Imagines L. doctorum virorum, qui bene de studiis literarum meruere : cum singulorum elogiis / nunc primum editae & aeri incisae opera Philippi Gallaei.

Accession number
PML 144642
Creator
Galle, Philippe, 1537-1612.
Published
Antverpiae : [François Raphelengien], 1587.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Consists of letterpress t.p., preface, list of portraits, and 50 engraved portraits with engraved caption text.
Publisher's name from preface.
Intended as as supplement to Galle's earlier "Virorum doctorum de disciplinis bene merentium effigies XLIIII"; the publisher, François Raphelengien, states in his preface that this work can either be joined to the former or had separately.
Library's copy has individual leaves mounted and bound into an album.
Description
[4] p., 50 leaves : chiefly ill., ports. ; 30 cm.
Provenance
Bookplate of William Stirling Maxwell; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Brown morocco stamped in blind with armorial devices of former owner.
Classification
Department