Jean-Jacques BOISSARD
Vitae et icones sultanorum turcicorum, principum persarum aliorumq[ue] : ab Osmane usque ad Mahometem II [avec] Pannoniae historia chronologica : res per Ungariam, Transylvaniam iam inde a co[n]stitutione Regnorum illorum, usque ad invictiss. Rom. im. Rodolphum II. [Lives and portraits of the Turkish sultans, Persian princes and others: from Osman to Mahomet II [with] Chronological history of Pannonia: events in Hungary, Transylvania from the establishment of those kingdoms to the invincible Roman emperor Rudolph II.]
Impressum per Iohannem Kolitium • impensis Ioh. Theodori, & Ioh. Israëlis de Bry, fratrum|Francfort [Frankfurt am Main] 1596|15.50 x 20.50 cm|2 textes reliés en un volume
First edition of both texts. The work is illustrated with a total of 50 medallion portraits featuring richly detailed borders of animals, plants, and fantastical creatures, together with three in-text engravings depicting battle scenes. Fine engraved frontispiece title. Portrait of the author on the verso. Decorated initials. The engravings are by Theodore de Bry after drawings by Joris Hoefnagel, inspired by imperial medals. Each portrait is framed by a four-line Latin epigram. The map of Hungary and Transylvania is lacking, as is almost invariably the case.
Later full brown sheep binding. Spine with four raised bands, ruled in blind and with a red morocco title label. Blind ruling to
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