Collection of historical portraits

Lot 1540 limit € 20

18 sheets in total, including 16 x Matthäus Merian, including 13 text sheets illustrated with copper engravings, from the cycle "Theatrum Europaeum, or detailed and true description of all and every memorable story [...]", plus 3 picture panels from the cycle, including a portrait of "Georg Achatius Heher", each first half of the 17th century, including 1 x copperplate engraving, portrait "M. Joannes Ernestus Herzogius" from "Time and Eternity, from which Sunday and Feast Day Epistles Continuously After der Lehr-Art, the formerly Anno 1664. dem [...] Martin Geiern [...]", each with signs of age (e.g. browned, partly creased, each irregularly damaged edge area), sheet up to approx. 32.5 x 21 cm