[Rarebooks] FS: Lyon: 1553. w/828 woodcut portraits,

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Rouille, Guillaume. PRIMA [LA SECONDA] PARTE DEL PRONTVARIO DELLE MEDAGLIE DE PIU ILLUSTRI, & Fulgenti Huomini & Donne, dal Principio de Mondo Insino al Presente Tempo, con le Lor Vite in Compendio Raccolte. Lyon: Appresso Guglielmo Rovillio. 1553. First Italian edition. 4to. 2 parts in 1, each with a title page. (8),172,(4);248,(8)pp. Indices (of medallions). Illustrated with 828 medallion woodcut portraits. Title pages with woodcut vignettes. Cont. vellum, lightly soiled, hand lettering on spine partly effaced. Old water stain at top fore-corner of a few final leaves. Text leaves lightly browned & some old soiling. One leaf with a horizontal tear repaired. Bookplate on front pastedown.	$1,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
Three editions of this work (in French, in Italian and in Latin) were printed in 1553. Baudrier IX p. 204-205. BMC French p. 386. Harvard, French #465.


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