Della grandezza di Roma et del suo imperio [...] lib[ri] IV. volgarizati da Filippo Pigafetta. Con tre discorsi, l’uno de’ sestertij antichi, l’altro del cadimento degl’Iimperij, il terzo delli Porti di Roma. Al [...] Mons[igno]re Pietro Aldobrandini [...].

8vo: [16]-367-[1 bl.] pp. (usual toning and spotting).

Cont. limp vellum, spine titled in ink (soiled, sm. def. to front joint and top of front cover). Very good copy.

Only edition of the Italian trsl. of Lipsius’ Admiranda (1598) by the Italian scholar and explorer Filippo Pigafetta (1533-1604). With 3 additional treatises by Pigafetta on ancient Roman sestertii (coins), on the decline of empires, and on the ports of Rome. Woodcut ecclesiastical arms on title. Woodcut tail pcs. Lipsius text fully annotated in 17th-c. Italian. Ref. Edit16 28384. - Bibl. Belg. III:894-895 L-133. - BibL. Lips. Brux. 136. - Rossetti 6262. - Not in Adams, Limo, STC Italian (BL). Prov. Old name on lower flyleaf.