- Lot 258

[WOODS & PORTRAITS] Important lot of woodcuts of 16th century works and 18th century portraits. Various sizes. - WOOD. Approximately 80 woodcuts of different works. 16th c. In ff, some recto verso, various sizes: title-frontispiece of Galen's "Omnia Opera" (Venice, 1541) partially fixed on cardboard; 7 recto verso plates illustrated with military engines (curls); 8 woodcuts fixed in full on strong paper, taken from "Opera virgiliana" (Lyon, Crespin, 1529, marginal curls); woodcuts taken from the Aeneid (Lyon, 1517); a few woodcuts taken from a work of anatomy (several recto verso). - Factitious collection illustrated with cut-out portraits of different works. 18th - early 19th c. 225 x 105 mm, half cloth booklet. [92] pp. with 116 portraits of various sizes, pasted in full. - 6 portraits taken from "Kerckelycke historie van de gheheele wereldt..." by Cornelius Hazart. XVII. 6 ff. +/- 265 x 170 mm to TC. 1 portrait partially fixed on cardboard. Petrus the Hermit, Saladinus, H. Ludovicus, Constantinus Palaelogus, Sabetha Sebi, Ismael Sophus. - Jean-Laurent KRAFFT - 10 portraits of members of the House of Austria engraved with etching. 18th c. In ff., various sizes. Ferdinand count of Tirol, Frederick the old, Frederick IV... - Jacobus DE RUBEIS - Portrait of Leonardus Colloredo. - "Don Iohan van Oostenryck Gouverneur van de Nederlanden." - 7 small portraits set in color, taken from a chronology of the kings of England.