Ciccarelli, Antonio (d. 1599).

4to (217 x 157mm.), [8], 715, [5]pp., illustration: engraved title-page, woodcut initials, engraved portraits within woodcut frames, binding: seventeenth-century red morocco gilt, arms of Foucault gilt on covers, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges, paper flaw in Lll1 (affecting woodcut frame), extremities very slightly rubbed

Nicolas-Joseph Foucault, armorial bookplate and arms on binding

Censimento 16 CNCE 12153

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first edition of Ciccarelli's biographical history of the Roman Emperors (Western, Eastern and Holy), from Julius Caesar to Rudolph II.