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LAZIUS, WOLFGANG. De aliquot gentium migrationibus, sedibus fixis, reliquiis, linguarùmque initiis, & immutationibus ac dialectis, libri 12. ... Primordia & posteritas singulorum, ... diligenti examine historiae, denique autorum annalimque cùm lectione tum collatione traduntur atque explicantur... Basileae (ex officina Oporiniana) 1572.

Folio (about 364x244 mm.). (3), 4-844 (in reality 840), (28) pp. Title with woodcut printer´s device, nice figurative woodcut initials, 18 (8 full-page) woodcuts in text, some woodcut armours.
Later (early 20th century) light brown full leather, somewhat worn, spine in six compartments, red spine labels, red edges. 2 pages mended in lower margin. Partly some worming, mostly at end.

Wolfgang Laz, better known by his Latinized name Wolfgang Lazius (1514 - 1565), Austrian humanist who worked as a cartographer, historian, and physician. He later became curator of the imperial collections of the Holy Roman Empire and official historian to Emperor Ferdinand I.
It is thought that Giuseppe Archimboldo´s painting The Librarian is a portrait of Lazius. (Wikipedia).

Auktionsnummer:

6059

Datum:

2019-06-14