[Rarebooks] FS: Ciccarelli's "Le Vite de Pontefici..." w/200+ engraved portraits. Rome: 1588

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Ciccarelli, Antonio. LE VITE DE PONTEFICI... CON L'EFFIGIE DI GIOVANBATTISTA DE CAVALLIERI. Rome: Ex Typographia Dominici Basae. 1588. 4to. ff.(6),286,(2). Illustrated with a copper engraved title, and 233 finely engraved portraits, all within decorative borders, by G. B. Cavalieri. Cont. tooled paneled calf, plainly rebacked (without a spine label). Fore-edge clasps lacking. Early ownership inscription at top of title page.  An attractive copy.                                                                                                                  $2,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
This edition contains reworked plates of Cavalieri's PONTIFICUM ROMANORUM EFFIGIES, 1580 (published in octavo format), with the addition of Ciccarelli's biographies. Also a biography and portrait for Sextus V, the  current Pope, was added to this edition. See Mortimer, HARVARD ITALIAN BOOKS p. 166-168. BL Italian STC p. 173.

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