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Deorvm dearvmqve capita : ex vetustis numismatibus in gratiam antiquitatis studiosorum effigiata et edita : ex museo Abrahami Ortelii

by: Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598; Galle, Philippe, 1537-1612

Publication date: 1573

Topics: Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598, Gods in numismatics, Numismatics, Roman

Publisher: Antuerpiae : Philippus Gallaeus excudebat

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: Latin

Dedication and prefatory epistle by Ortelius

Printer from colophon

Engraved t.p

Heads of divinities and personifications engraved by Philippe Galle (see Bib. belgica), each in a roundel with broad border of strapwork and grotesquerie, incorporating 2 tablets for name of the figure represented and the coin from which it was taken

"Scriptorvm vetervm ac recentivm, qvi ex professo deorvm gentilivm historias vel imagines descripservnt, elenchvs"--P. [7-8]

Bib. Belgica (1964-1970 éd.)

Binding: mottled sheepskin. Rebacked. Double fillets in gilt along edges of boards, spine good tooled. The edges sprinkled red. Theodore Besterman's booklabel centered on recto of front free pastedown