Trophaeum Vitae Solitariae.

Paris, Thomas De Leu, ca. 1600

€ 160 / 200

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Lot description

25 engravings, 14,4 x 18,8 cm (platemark), 19,7 x 27 cm (paper), laid paper, signed in plate "Edmundus Charpy fecit" and "Thomas de Leu excudit." (some offprint, sm. holes in left margin from old album binding).

Complete series (incl. title) on the life of solitary hermits. Reverse copies after the original series by Johannes Sadeler after De Vos. Still nice impressions with wide margins.
Ref. New Hollstein (De Vos), 1024-1049, copy c.