Jacobus de Strada | Imperatorum Romanorum omnium orientalium et occidentalium verissimae imagines, Zurich, 1559, woodcut portraits of the Roman emperors - photo 1
Jacobus de Strada | Imperatorum Romanorum omnium orientalium et occidentalium verissimae imagines, Zurich, 1559, woodcut portraits of the Roman emperors - photo 2
Jacobus de Strada | Imperatorum Romanorum omnium orientalium et occidentalium verissimae imagines, Zurich, 1559, woodcut portraits of the Roman emperors - photo 3
Jacobus de Strada | Imperatorum Romanorum omnium orientalium et occidentalium verissimae imagines, Zurich, 1559, woodcut portraits of the Roman emperors - photo 4

Jacobus de Strada | Imperatorum Romanorum omnium orientalium et occidentalium verissimae imagines, Zurich, 1559, woodcut portraits of the Roman emperors

Lot 81
28.11.2023 14:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 81 | Jacobus de Strada | Imperatorum Romanorum omnium orientalium et occidentalium verissimae imagines, Zurich, 1559, woodcut portraits of the Roman emperors
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£ 12 000 – 18 000
Jacobus de Strada

Imperatorum Romanorum omnium orientalium et occidentalium verissimae imagines. Zurich: Andreas Gesner, 1559

FIRST EDITION, folio (480 x 360 mm.), ornate woodcut frame on title page signed with cipher of Christoph Schweitzer, woodcut borders filled with putti and fruits framing the text, tailpieces consisting of various elaborate arabesques by Peter Flötner (published at Zurich in 1549), and 118 ESPECIALLY LARGE OVAL PORTRAITS OF ROMAN EMPERORS from Julius Caesar to Charles V, each in an elaborate woodcut frame engraved by Rudolf Wyssenbach after designs of Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch and signed with their initials, old (perhaps 16th century) flexible vellum, covers tooled in blind with plain rule frame, quatrefoil cornerpieces, and small oval arms stamped at centre, later marbled endpapers, lower outer corner of margin on title page, leaves in the first gathering, and final leaf neatly repaired without loss to text or decoration (but decorative border at bottom of final leaf perhaps inlaid from another copy), binding soiled

A handsome book with a special place in the history of woodcut illustration. Apart from their aesthetic achievement, the medallions (measuring approximately 275mm. in diameter) are significant in the history of printing because they are framed by beautiful woodcut borders that are the largest ever cut for a book from a single block.

Dutch Renaissance man Jacobus de Strada (1507-88) was active in many fields, including architecture, painting, designing for goldsmiths, collecting art and antiques, writing, publishing, and hydraulics.

Artist Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch (1525-71) produced illustrations for books and designed stained glass windows. His best-known works are the fine topographical views of cities he did for Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia.
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