Discours historial de l'antique et illustre cité de Nismes, en la Gaule Narbonoise, auec les portraitz des plus antiques & insignes bastimens dudit lieu, reduitz à leur vraye mesure & proportion, ensemble de l'antique & moderne ville, par Iean Poldo d'Albenas.
Jean Poldo d'Albenas (1512-1563)
Category
Books
Date
1560
Materials
Place of origin
Lyon
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3130816
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12], 226, [14] p., [14] leaves of plates (4 folded double leaves, 6 single leaves) : ill. (woodcut), map, plans ; fol. Running number: 6262. Ruled in red throughout. Binding: eighteenth-century polished calf; double and single gilt fillet border with small gilt cornerpiece stamps; double gilt fillet along board edges; gilt roll pattern on turn-ins; gold-tooled spine, with floral stamps, roll and fillet decoration; brown goatskin label with gilt title on spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Jean Poldo d'Albenas (1512-1563), author Pierre Eskrich (c.1530-c.1590), photographer Hugues Sambin (1520-1601), artist