Five Old Master Engravings, Boissard and de Bry

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Five Old Master Engravings, Boissard and de Bry. 16th/17th C., depicting, Johannes Herbster (Joannes Operinus Graecae), Johannes Hartung, Johannes Piscator, Albertus Magnus Episcop Ratispone, and Sebastian Munster, after Johann Theodore de Bry from Jean-Jacques Boissard’s Bibliotheca Chalcographica Unframed, losses to edges, trimmed. 5-1/2"h x 4-1/4"w . A collection of portraits edited by Jean-Jacques Boissard (1528-1602), engraved by Johann Theodore de Bry (1561-1623). Portraits of leading Renaissance academics, scholars, humanists, doctors, alchemists, herbalists, cartographers, cosmographers, judges, bishops, composers, musicians, historians, poets and theologians, including Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch, William Camden, Sir Thomas More, Christopher Columbus, Machiavelli, Copernicus, Mercator, Vesalius, Vasari, Leonhart Fuchs, Sebastian Munster, Jean-Jacques Boissard, etc. Most within decorative oval borders ornamented with foliage, animals, insects, etc. Theodor de Bry (1528-1598) was an engraver, goldsmith, editor and publisher, famous for his depictions of early European expeditions to the Americas. Jean-Jacques Boissard (1528-1602) was a French antiquary and Neo-Latin poet.