GOLTZIUS, Hubert - Lot 26

GOLTZIUS, Hubert Icones imperatorum romanorum, ex priscis numismatibus ad vivum delineatae, & brevi narratione historicam Antwerp, Ex Officina Plantiana, Balthasar Moretus, 1645 IMPERIAL CONTINUITY THROUGH NUMISMATICS: 144 SEPIA-COLORED WOODCUT MEDALS OF EMPERORS. FROM JULES CÉSAR TO FERDINAND III OF HABSBOURG In-folio (360 x 230 mm). Woodcut intials COLLATION: * ** A-Z 2A-Z 3A-G4 2 ff.n. ch. ILLUSTRATION: 1 title-frontispiece designed by Pierre Paul Rubens and engraved in intaglio by Corneille Galle and 144 large full-page medallions of woodcut portraits of emperors and rulers printed on sepia backgrounds, 10 blank woodcut medallions. Some figures are double-numbered: LXXXVII/LXXXVIII; XCVIII/XCIX; C/CI; CXI/CXII; CXVI/CXVII; CXVIII/CXIX; CXXXI/CXXXII; while 10 numbered medallion leaves remain blank: n° CXXII, CXXIII, CXXVI, CXXIX, CXXXIIII, CXXXV, CXXXVIII, CXXXIX, CXLIX, as in the other copies consulted. CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Marbled fawn calf, double cold fillet, spine ribbed and decorated, red edges. PROVENANCE: J.M. Marette (bookplate) -- Paris, March 14, 2013, no. 25 Frontispiece cut out in lower margin without damage, upper jaws cracked, two corners dulled BIBLIOGRAPHY: Brunet II, col. 1653 -- Cicognara 2868 -- Bibliotheca Belgica, III, 257