Author: GOLTZIUS (Hubert):
Title: Los Vivos Retratos de Todos Emperadores desde Iulio Cesar hasta el emperador Carlos. V. y Don Fernando su hermano: sacados de las mas antiguas monedas, no como fueron sacadas por otros, sino pintadas muy fiel y verdaderamente, y las vidas y hechos, costumbres, virtudes, y vicios, pintados con sus colores, y puestos por historia. Al pederosissimo Principe Don Phelipe Catholico Rey de Respagna.
Description: En Anneurs [ despesas de H. Goltzio Plintor, en la emprenta de E. Copenio de Dist. Anyo del Senor, 1560. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Folio, 354 x 227 mms., pp. [ii], [352], with decorative title-page, 165 circular engraved portraits printed in sepia (with off-setting on opposite page), contemporary calf, with early reback in matching calf, gilt ornament on covers (worn); no paste-down end-papers, with occasional soiling of text, 30 mm. tear in last two leaves from lower margin , some other general wear, but a good to very good copy of an uncommon book. Hubert Goltz or Goltzius (1526 – 1583) was a Renaissance painter, engraver, and printer from the Southern Netherlands. He is not to be confused with the much more famous Hendrik Goltzius, who was his cousin, once removed. Jean Peeters-Fontainas, Bibliographie des impressions espagnoles des Pays-Bas méridionaux, n° 505. Copies located in UC, Berkeley, Free Library Philadelphia, Cambridge, B, IBLIOTHEQUE D'ART & D'ARCHEOLOGIE-RCON, BIBLIOTHEQUE D'ART ET D'ARCHEOLOGIE, two in Chile, Parix Mazarine, Paris History of Art, Belgium: Plantin Museum, Harvard, Folger.

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