(Paolo, Bishop of Nocera) Vitae Illustrium Virorum, 2 vol, in 1, first title in woodcut border, 29 large woodcut portraits in borders, first title margins defective & mounted, next 2 ff. lower corner of margins defective, tear to y3, I5 holed with loss of half-a-dozen words, 2M5-2O4 defective, with substantial loss of text, and restored, some other minor marginal restoration, staining and marking, early ownership entry on title, twentieth-century half vellum, marbled boards, bookplate removed from free endpaper, [Adams G5667; Atabey 503; Blackmer 691], folio, Basle, P. Perna & H. Petri, 1578 [vol. I colophon 1576; vol II title 1577] *** The fourth collected edition, the second issue of vol I (the first is dated 1576), but the first with the appendix containing the lives and portraits of 11 Turkish Sultans, these apparently based on a collection of portraits given by the Turkish admiral Barbarossa to Virginio Orsini, which eventually passed into Giovio's possession.
(Paolo, Bishop of Nocera) Vitae Illustrium Virorum, 2 vol, in 1, first title in woodcut border, 29 large woodcut portraits in borders, first title margins defective & mounted, next 2 ff. lower corner of margins defective, tear to y3, I5 holed with loss of half-a-dozen words, 2M5-2O4 defective, with substantial loss of text, and restored, some other minor marginal restoration, staining and marking, early ownership entry on title, twentieth-century half vellum, marbled boards, bookplate removed from free endpaper, [Adams G5667; Atabey 503; Blackmer 691], folio, Basle, P. Perna & H. Petri, 1578 [vol. I colophon 1576; vol II title 1577] *** The fourth collected edition, the second issue of vol I (the first is dated 1576), but the first with the appendix containing the lives and portraits of 11 Turkish Sultans, these apparently based on a collection of portraits given by the Turkish admiral Barbarossa to Virginio Orsini, which eventually passed into Giovio's possession.
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