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Lot 860: THE CHIEF VICTORIES OF THE EMPEROR CHARLES THE FIFTH, DESIGNED BY MARTIN HEEMSKERCK IN M.D.L.V., AND NOW ILLUSTRATED WITH PORTRAITS, PRINTS AND NOTES.

Est: €300 EUR - €400 EURSold:
Arenberg AuctionsBrussels, BelgiumMarch 26, 2021

Item Overview

Description

Large folio: xxxvi-91-[1] pp. - Beautiful monumental private deluxe publication of Maarten van Heemskerck’s 12 Renaissance illustrations of Charles V’s victories, originally publ. by Hieronymus Cock in 1556. The editor Sir W. Stirling-Maxwell (1818-1878), Scottish politician and a major Victorian book collector, added numerous documents, portraits, prints, coats of arms. The result is a stunning and still important monograph on Charles V and his portraits, arms etc. Printed in only 200 copies (no 153 - one of 40 reserved for members of the exclusive Philobiblion Society). Most prints depict victories over Charles’s European rivals, but 6 depicts his armies landing in America to bring civilization to native cannibals. Title-page printed in red and black, with lithographed allegorical vignette portrait of Charles V. The whole book is beautifully printed (in black and colour) on excellent paper. - Ref. New Hollstein 524-535. - B. Rosier, "The victories of Charles V: a series of prints by Maarten van Heemskerck, 1555-1556", Simiolus (1990), pp. 24-38. - Prov. Presentation inscription by Stirling-Maxwell to Kirkman Hodgson (1814-1879), East India merchant and banker, M. P. and member of the Philobiblon Society.

Date

1870

Condition Report

Yellow and black cloth with a repeating design of the imperial double-headed eagle, edges bevelled inside, flat spine, t.e.g., decorative endpapers with the emperor’s device (corners, head and tail sl. rubbed, tail rep. with sellotape). Excellent well-preserved copy.

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Auction Details

D2 - Books and Prints

by
Arenberg Auctions
March 26, 2021, 01:00 PM CET

Wolstraat 19/2, Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, 1000, BE

Terms

Buyer's Premium

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