Les illustres observations antiques du seigneur Gabriel Symeon : En son dernier voyage d'Italie l'an 1557
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Type of record: Book
Title: Les illustres observations antiques du seigneur Gabriel Symeon : En son dernier voyage d'Italie l'an 1557
Other titles: Les illvstres observations antiqves
Classmark: Strong Room for. 4to 1558/SIM
Creator(s): Simeoni, Gabriele (1509-1575)
Additional creator(s): Tournes, Jean de (1504-1564) (Other); Reverdy, Georges (Other); Salomon, Bernard (1506-1561) (Other)
Related people: Tournes, Jean de; Reverdy, Georges; Salomon, Bernard
Publisher: Par Ian De Tovrnes
Publication city: A Lyon
Date(s): 1558
Language: French
Size and medium: [16], 134, [2]p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/286336
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002255439705181
Description
Illustrations: numerous woodcuts in the text, including portrait of the author as the center of the title vignette, replacing the device of the Italian edition. Without the larger port. of Simeoni found on the verso of the t.p. in the Italian edition. The cuts, attributed by the Bibliothéque nationale to Georges Reverdy, were formerly attributed to Bernard Salomon. -- cf. Cartier, v. 1, p. 15-16. Most of the cuts depict monuments or medals but a few show statues and views, e.g. the house of Petrarch at Vaucluse.
La plupart des monuments rapportés dans ce livre sont évidemment faux ou modernes. -- Biographie universelle (Michaud) ancienne et moderne. Nouv. éd. Paris, 1854-65. t. 39, p. 365.
Shortened translation of the Italian edition of the same year.
Signatures: A-B⁴, a-r⁴, (r4 blank).
Indexed in: Bibliothèque nationale, Paris. Estampes, Dépt. des: Inventaire du fonds français. Graveurs du seizième siècle II, p. 87, no. 68, note.
Additional description
Inside the present front cover is inserted the leather of an earlier (16th century?) front cover, blind and gilt tooled and stamped with a portrait medallion
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