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EMBLEM BOOKS -- BEZA, Th. Les vrais pourtraits des hommes illustres en pieté et doctrine (…). (Geneva), J. de Laon, 1581. (8), 284, (4) pp. W. woodcut printer's mark on ti., 11 woodcut cartouches, 49 woodcut portrs. & 44 half-p. woodcut emblems. 4°. Cont. vellum. (Vellum a bit stained/soiled, sl. browned/foxed).
First French edition. With portraits of i.a. Erasmus, Luther, Melanchthon, Joachim Camerarius, Wolfgang Musculus, Zwingli, Sebastian Münster, Conrad Gesner, etc. - Adams B-921; Landwehr, Romanic, 159; Praz p. 270-71 ("Scarce").€ 500
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