78/2833 [Portraits]. Frisius, S.W. (±1580-1629) and Hondius, H. (1673-1650). Pictorum Aliquot Celebrium Praecipuae Germaniae Inferioris Effigies. The Hague, H. Hondius, 1610, engr. title-p., dedic. plate and 69 engr. portraits (the final plate is an allegorical engr. of fame after death titled "Post funera, Vita"), contemp. vellum, sm. folio.

- All plates fingersoiled in lower outer corner/ lower outer margin; title-p. w. crossed out owner's entry in lower blank margin; first 3 leaves sl. wormholed in lower blank outer corner; 2 final plates sm. inkstain in outer blank margin and 1 plate sm. tear in upper blank margin. Otherwise a good/ fine complete series. Vellum sl. warped and sl. stained.

= Of the 71 portraits and plates, 24 are engraved by Simon Frisius (see: N. Orenstein, Hendrick Hondius and the Business of Prints in Seventeenth-Century Holland, p.73ff). Van Someren I, nr. 211a; Hollstein, Frisius, 120-191; Hollstein, Hondius 80-115. Very rare complete series.