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[Heinrich Henning, Johann Jacob Hoffman. Johann Peter Lotich]. Historia Augusta Imperatorum Romanorum a C. Julio Caesare...
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Eighty-One Early Eighteenth-Century Engraved Plates Featuring the Likenesses of 161 Emperors
[Heinrich Henning, Johann Jacob Hoffman. Johann Peter Lotich]. Historia Augusta Imperatorum Romanorum a C. Julio Caesare usque ad Josephum Imperatorem Augustissimum. Amsterdam: Apud Stephenum Roger, 1710.]Folio (14.5 x 9 inches; 368 x 228 mm). [81] of 83 leaves, each with two engraved images of Roman and Holy Roman Emperors, all approximately 5.125 x 5 inches (122 x 130 mm); many of the plates interleaved with laid paper to prevent offsetting. Laid in at front are two slips of laid paper (one slip with 1822 watermark), one slip of wove paper, and two bifolia of laid blue paper (with 1861 watermark), all of which have contemporary manuscript notes and indices. Bound without title or letterpress pages.
Quarter calf over late-eighteenth-century marbled boards, badly abraded, rounded corners with remnants of calf cornerpieces and pasteboards exposed, brown book tape over perished spine. Ownership inscription of "Paul White, 1794," to front free endpaper. Some soiling, spotting, and foxing, primarily to margins. A few leaves standing proud; leaves [46] and [47] and rear free endpaper disbound. Front board loose. A well-used but respectable copy of these popular images.
This suite of engravings of Roman, Eastern Roman, and Holy Roman Emperors based upon a collection of medallions owned by Christina, Queen of Sweden (1629-1689), was initially included in a work edited by Henning and published in Rome and Trier in 1696 (Imperatores Romani a Julio Cesare, usque ad sacratissimum Imperatorem qui nunc rerum potitur, carmine perpetuo descripti). Evidently a popular subject, the engravings were reproduced in several subsequent books and editions published in the first part of the eighteenth century, including Historia Augusta Imperatorum Romanorum.
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2010 February Signature Rare Books Auction #6038 (go to Auction Home page)
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