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Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, apud viduam & Ioannem Moretum, [1592]. 260 x 185 mm. (10 1/4 x 7 1/8"). 5 p.l., 7-407, [23] pp., [1] leaf (blank).Edited and with commentary by Laevinus Torrentius. IMPRESSIVE CONTEMPORARY BLIND-TOOLED PIGSKIN over thick paper boards, covers each with a central panel, that on the upper board depicting Judith holding the head of Holofernes, with text of Psalm 144:19 beneath it (NUSK P 000 417), that on the lower board showing Jael killing Sisera (NUSK P 000 429), the text beneath from Judges 5:31, both panels framed with half-figures of Lucretia, Prudentia, Venus and Judith (EBDB r002982, dated 1560; NUSK V 000 195), all within a border of palmettes, raised bands, bluish edges. Engraved title framed by medallion portraits of the Twelve Caesars, and numerous woodcut illustrations of coins in text. Occasional marginal notations in a contemporary hand. Imhof S-55; Adams S-2052; USTC 402226. For the binding: NUSK Database (The archive of Bohumil Nuska) workshop NUSK 98,…
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XII CAESARES ET IN EOS LAEVINI TORRENTII COMMENTARIUS AUCTIOR ET EMENDATIOR
by (BINDINGS - 16TH CENTURY BOHEMIAN). (PLANTIN IMPRINT). SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS
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