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With Jobin's woodcut printer's mark on title, large woodcut coat-of-arms of the dedicatee, King Frederick II of Denmark (1534-1588), and 100 fine woodcut portraits by Christoph Murer (2 by Tobias Stimmer). Each page with woodcut frame. (8) leaves, 428 pp., (8) leaves. Small 8vo. Mod. vellum, edges gilt and gauffered. Strasbourg, Bernard Jobin, 1590. An outstanding German woodcut book with a fine collection of portraits after Christoph Murer (1558-1614), in its second Latin edition. It is an iconographic source for 16th-century German and Swiss humanism, scholarship, reformation, medicine, natural history, and music, containing many uncommon portraits. Among those appearing in the book are Apianus, Brant, Copernicus, Paracelsus, Bullinger, Albertus Magnus, Zwingli, Oecolampadius, Hus, Gesner, Vesalius, Hutten, Luther, Savonorola, Schwenckfeld, Münster, Amerbach, Oporinus, Melanchthon, and others of equal note. Andresen's attribution of these portraits to Stimmer has been refuted, not only on stylistic grounds - Stimmer had been dead for three years when they were first published (1587); only the portraits of Mathias Flaccius Illyricus and Paracelsus are after Stimmer. - Old. ms. ownership entry on title, very light browning, otherwise a nice copy. - VD 16 R 1428; Adams R-410; STC (German) 734; Fairfax Murray 362; Stimmer catalogue (Basel), no. 119; Muller, Bibl. strasbourgeoise III, p. 596, no. 211; cf. Lipperheide Cg 60 (ed. 1589). GRAPHIC ARTS:ILLUSTRATED BOOKS ; HUMANISM ; GERMANY ;