Illustrium virorum vitae. Florence, Laurentius Torrentino 1551. fol. With woodcut vign. 425 (recte 427) pp., 14 nn. Bl. (le.w.). - ╔Appendix: Ders.╗ De vita Leonis decimi Pont. Max. libri quatuor. Ebda. 1551. with woodcut-tvign. 4 nn. Bl., 204 p., 8 nn. Blind-stamped pigskin gilt d. Zt. (closing bands missing, damaged and rubbed, somewhat fl.). ╔I.╗ Adams G 664. Brunet III, 684. Graesse III, 490. - ╔II.╗ Adams G 690. Brunet III, 583. Graesse III, 490. - Beautiful and early Florentine edition of the well-known biographies of the physician of Pope Leo X. and historian Giovio (1483-1553), whom Leo X. flattered to be the most elegant writer since Livius (cf. Hoefer XX, 634). - End slightly water-margined, tit. of the first work slightly browned. - 2 works in 1 volume. Both with woodcut vignette on title. Contemporary pigskin, ties missing, rubbed and bumped, somewhat stained. Ending somewhat waterstained, title of the first work slightly browned.
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