Sive feras telis, hostes seu sternere ferro, invictus pugnis pugnus Achillis erat =. So wol behertzte Feind, als wilde Thier zu fällen, dürfft der Achilles sich stets unbesiegt darstellen.
Janssens, Victor Honoré, 1664-1739
Category
Books
Date
1721
Materials
Place of origin
Augsburg
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3237251
Summary
Bibliographic description
14 leaves of plates :. ill. (engravings) ;. 4to. Accession no. 4593. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: printed label "C.-F. II de Lamoignon" with shelfmark Y21 and ink note ""Rariss.", sale 1784; manuscript inscription of Henry White of Lichfield 13 November 1819 and his sale 1826; 1897 Waddesdon catalogue, p. 37. Binding: eighteenth-century French red morocco gilt and lettered up the spine "Histoire d'Achille"; gilt edges, blue moiré silk endleaves.
Makers and roles
Janssens, Victor Honoré, 1664-1739 Probst, Johann Balthasar, 1673-1750, engraver Jeremias Wolf (1663 - 1724)