FABER (Johannes).
In Imagines illustrium Ex Fulvii Ursini Bibliotheca... Commentarius. Antwerp, Ex Officina Plantiniana, Jean Moretus, 1606. In-4, stiff vellum overlay, title in ink on spine (Binding of the period).
Beautiful Plantinian edition, illustrated with a frontispiece and 168 (151 + 17) portraits of illustrious men engraved in intaglio from the collections of antiquities and medals of Fulvio Orsini (1529-1660), a great humanist and antiquarian of the Italian Renaissance.
The 151 portraits, the work of Theodore Galle, had first appeared in 1598, and the 17 others, numbered from A to R, are new.
Compass mark on the title.
Manuscript bookplate on one endpaper.
Traces of folding on the portrait n°73, wetness at the head of several engravings.
