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BÈZE, Theodore de (1519-1605). Icones, id est verae imagines doctrina simul et pietate illustrium... additis eorundem vitae & operae descriptiones, quibus adiectae sunt nonnullae picturae quas emblemata vocant. Geneva: Jean de Laon, 1580. 4 o (228 x 165 mm). Collation: * 4 A-z Aa Qq 4. Title-page with woodcut printer's device, 38 oval woodcut portraits within Renaissance borders, 53 borders without portraits but with two windheads and text in each, 44 woodcut emblem vignettes within borders, numerous woodcut headpieces and initials. (Title-page with small paper imperfection at lower fore-edge and with a few ink stains, four internal leaves with similar small imperfections, Gg3 with a few printing creases, some miniscule marginal wormholes.) Contemporary vellum, yapp edges. Provenance : Jac. Ribreius (inscription on title-page: "Jac. Ribreii et amicorum"); manuscript list of names of members of the Reformation on rear flyleaf. FIRST EDITION of this illustrated biographical dictionary of humanists and leaders of the Protestant Reformation. Included are Martin Luther, John Calvin, Peter Zwingli, Conrad Gesner Marter Bucer, Petrus Martyr, Thomas Crammer, John Knox Robert Estienne, Hieronymus Froben and Phillip Melanchthon. Many of the subjects were personally known to Bèze and therefore his portraits, both written and pictorial, have great authenticity. The work's second part contains forty-four illustrated emblems. Adams B-920; Landwehr Romantic Emblem Books 154; Lipperheide Cg52; Praz 270.