[...] Illustrium virorum elogia iconibus exornata. Illustriss. et Revereniss. D.

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TOMASINI, Giacomo Filippo (1595-1654), [...] Illustrium virorum elogia iconibus exornata. Illustriss. et Revereniss. D.D. Io. Baptistae Agucchiae [...] Padova Donato Pasquardi & C. 1630 WITH RESPECTIVELY 47 AND 38 ENGRAVED PORTRAITS OF LEARNED MEN AND WOMEN 4to. [16], 144, [2], 145-373 [i.e. 369], [51] pp. With errors in pagination. Collation: [+]-++4 A-S4 [ 1] T-Eee4 Fff6. Leaf 1 contains the portrait of Albertinus Bottonus. Engraved title page and 47 full-page engraved portrait mostly by H. David. With several woodcut illustrations of medals and coats-of-arms in text. The leaves Mm2 and Rr4 are shorter at the margins and are attached with stubs, worm hole to the lower blank margin of the first two leaves of text, overall a good, genuine copy. First edition (issue B), dedicated to Giovanni Battista Agucchia, apostolic nuncio to Venice, containing 74 biographies and 47 portraits of high prelates, scholars, poets, philosophers, physicians and jurists, including Jacopo Zabarella, Ruzzante, Gabriele Falloppio, Sperone Speroni, Marco Mantova Benavides, Girolamo Mercuriale, Torquato Tasso, Jacopo Menocchio, Tycho Brahe, Giovanni Antonio Magini, Giulio Casserio, etc. Italian Union Catalogue, IT\ICCU\TSAE\002302; Vinciana, 3617; Brunet, V, col. 878; R. Lauro, Padova bibliografia storico-letteraria 1472-1900, Padua, 2007, no. 2819. (bound with:) IDEM. […] Oratio de D. Hieronymi laudibus habita in ecclesia Canonicorum Saecularium D. Mariae ab Avantio inter missarum solemnia eius die f

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