Præstantium aliquot theologorum, qui Rom. antichristum præcipuè oppugnarunt, effigies : quibus addita e'logia liborumq[ue] catalogi / operâ Iac. Verheiden.

Præstantium aliquot theologorum, qui Rom. antichristum præcipuè oppugnarunt, effigies : quibus addita e'logia liborumq[ue] catalogi / operâ Iac. Verheiden.

Verheiden, Jacob, active 1590

MDCII [1602]

[16], 226, [2] pages : illustrations, portraits (engravings) ; 31 cm. (fol.)

Printer's statement from colophon. With 50 engraved portraits of Reformers, including Thomas Cranmer, John Knox and John Bale, and one allegorical plate. Engraved portraits are signed H, Hh, Hhon, HAB and are by Heinrich Hondius the elder; title page signed: sculpebat et excud. Henricus Hondius; portrait of Philipp Melanchthon also bears device of Albrecht Du?rer. This issue includes the gathering [con], featuring Berengarius, between *5 and *6. Another issue lacks these two leaves. Cf. BL Low Countries 1600-1621. Engraved title page; tail pieces; woodcut initials. Includes bibliographies. Page 193 wrongly numbered 139. Bound in modern limp vellum binding with blind stamped mandorla or centerpiece front and back.

Purchased on Schulich-Woolf fund.

Hondius, Hendrik, 1573-1650, engraver.
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528, artist.
Nieulandt, Beuckel Cornelissz. printer.

Latin

Dated 1602 .V47
NUC pre-1956, vol. 634, p. 127
BL Low Countries, 1601-1621, v156
Brunet, V, p. 1138
Brunet, Suppl., II, p. 867