Imagines et elogia virorum illustrium et eruditor[um] ex antiquis lapidibus et nomismatis expressa cum annotationib[us] ex bibliotheca Fulvii Ursini.

Folio: 111 pp. (toned, some spotting and dampstaining, fore-edge margin of title repaired, tear in blank top margin of pp. 37-38).

18th-c. mottled leather, gilt flat spine with label, red edges (rubbed).

First ed. of a major early collection of ancient Greek and Roman portraits, busts, inscriptions and coins, edited by Fulvio Orsini (1529-1600), librarian to the Farnese family. Engr. title, 57 full-page, 1 half-page engravings and 17 half-page woodcuts.
Ref. EDIT16 37885. - Dekesel O-3. - Mortimer (Harvard Italian) 329. - Adams U-72. - Rossetti (Rome) 7622.