Imagines et elogia virorum illustrium et eruditor[um] ex antiquis lapidibus et nomismatibus expressacum annotationib[us].

Rome, A. Lafréry for P. Deuchino (Venice), 1570

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Lot description

Folio: engr. title + 36 (of 55) engr. ff. (thumbed, some soiling or staining, a few sm. single wormholes almost throughout).

Contemp. limp vellum (almost loose, stained, hole in lower cover, endpapers lifted). Working copy.

Important Renaissance collection of antique portraits, medals (and coins) collected by the Roman humanist Orsini (1529-1600).
Ref. Edit16 37885. - Dekesel O-3. - STC Italian (BL) 705. - Not in Adams.
Bound with: Statius, Achilles - Inlustrium viror[um] ut exstant in Urbe expressi vultus. Rome, A. Lafréry, 1569. Folio: engr. title + 51 numbered engravings (4 initial ff. and pl. 13 missing). Early collection of antique portrait busts found in mid-16th-c. Rome - it proved to be an important source for Renaissance painters. Ref. Edit16 18312. - Dekesel S-55. - STC Italian (BL) 645. - Not in Adams.
Prov. Old names on flyleaves and 1st title.