De viris illustribus.

4to: [22] ff., 35 ll. (1st ff. sl. soiled, single wormholes in blank margins).

19th-c. half leather, marbl. paper boards, gilt flat spine (rubbed). Very good copy.

Extr. rare (4th recorded copy?) of the 2nd Milan ed. (1st 1475) of a collection of biographies of Roman emperors longtime attributed to Suetonius (1st publ. Rome 1470). Printed in roman type. Capital space with guide-letter. Ref. ISTC ia01387500. - IGI VI:1086-B. - Not in BMC, BSB-Ink, CIBN, Goff, Polain etc. Prov. A few cont. annotations or reader’s marks. - Dezeimeris, probably Reinhold Dezeimeris, 1835-1913, founder of the Société des Bibliophiles de Guyenne (collector’s ticket). - Jacques Vieillard, Bordeaux bibliophile, sales 1929, 1946, 1950 (bookpl.). - [Georges Petit].