Pauli Iovii Novocomensis episcopi nucerini Vitae illustrium virorum. Tomis duobus comprehensae, & proprijs imaginibus illustratae

by Paolo Giovio

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Basel: Petri Pernae typographi, 1578-77. Folio, 2 volumes in 1, pp. 12 , 427, 1 ; 8 , 176, 26 index; 177-225; title page within elaborate woodcut border; index appears at p. 176 of the second volume, before the final section on the lives of the Turkish emperors, which first appears in this edition and contains 11 portraits; with 29 large woodcut portraits in all, each with an elaborate decorative woodcut border by Tobias Stimmer; 18th-century parchment,

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