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Giovio, Paolo.
Elogia virorum bellica virtute illustrium.
Basel: Pietro Perna, 1575;
Regionum et insularum atque locorum descriptiones.
Basel: Perna, 1578, 2 works in one volume. First editions.
I. Publisher Pierre Perna had the idea of engraving the most important portraits of the men of war gathered in this museum. The work is illustrated with 128 woodcut PORTRAITS in a variety of large-scale Baroque frames. (10 frames are empty). This edition served as an iconographic source for a very long time, and some of the portraits have remained famous, such as that of Christophe Collomb. Other notable portraits include Cortez Barbarossa, Attila... Giovio's portrait is placed at the beginning (USTC, 683306).
II.Last treatise on geography.
[8], 391pp, [14], bl, 156pp, [4]. Condition: title grubby, spotted and grubby throughout. Stamp to endpapers, with ink annotation. Folio, vellum over pasteboard, re-backed. 345mm x 230mm.
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