Les images ou tableaux de platte peinture des deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs et les statues de callistrate[.] / Mis en Francois par Blaise de Vigenere Bourbonnois enrichis d’arguments et annotations[.] Reueus et corrigez sur l’original par un docte personage de ce temps en la langue Grecque et representez en taille douce en cette nouuelle edition auec des epigrammes sur chacun diceux par Artus Thomas Sieur d’Embry, auec Priuilege du Roy, Iaspar Isac Incidit[.]
Philostratus, the Athenian (2nd - 3rd century BC)
Category
Books
Date
1630
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3029451
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 601, [1], 601-757, [1], 757-832, 835-921, [47] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (metal cut) ; fol. Pencil “642” on pastedown. Marginal notes in a seventeenth-century hand on sigs. e3r.-e4r. have been almost washed away. Provenance: armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: seventeenth-century calf over boards on six tanned thongs (front cover loose), double gilt fillet and lozenge-shaped tools on spine, red spine label, double blind fillet on covers, remains of single gilt fillet on board edges, red painted edges. Spine title: Les images des deux Philostrates.
Makers and roles
Philostratus, the Athenian (2nd - 3rd century BC), author Blaise de Vigenère (1523-1596), translator