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Portrait of the three engravers of Fuchs' 'de Historia....'
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Portrait of the three engravers of Fuchs' 'de Historia....'

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Portraits of the three men responsible for illustrating 'De historia stirpivm commentarii insignes ... adiectis eorvndem vivis plvsqvam quingentis imaginibus ... Accessit ... uocum difficilium et obscurarum passim in hoc opere ocurrentium explicatio ...' by Leonhard Fuchs. This page appears at the back of the book and is subtitled 'Pictores Operis' and 'Scvlptor'. The men are identified as 'Heinrich/ Heinricus F(?)uellmaurer', 'Albertus Neher' and 'Ditus Rodolph Spectle'

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