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ANGELONI, Francesco. La Historia Augusta da Guilio Cesare ... illustrata con la verita delle Antiche Medaglie da Francesca Angeloni alla Maesta Christianissima di Luigi XIII. Rome: Andrea Fei, 1641. 4° (322 x 222mm). Engraved allegorical title by Lanfranc, engraved illustrations of coins, some full-page, woodcut ornaments (?lacks portrait, some light spotting, piece torn away from margins of E and Bbb, a few marginal holes). Contemporary vellum (part of spine torn away, edges worn, lower cover worn, bowed). FIRST EDITION. BM STC 17th-Century Italian, p. 37; Brunet I, 289.
With Jerome Porter's The Flowers of the Lives of the Most renowned Saints of the Three Kingdoms, England, Scotland and Ireland (Douai, 1632) and Jacob Nasmith's Catalogus librorum manusciptorum quos Collegio Corporis Christi (Cambridge, 1777), the latter attractively-bound in later half vellum. (3)
With Jerome Porter's The Flowers of the Lives of the Most renowned Saints of the Three Kingdoms, England, Scotland and Ireland (Douai, 1632) and Jacob Nasmith's Catalogus librorum manusciptorum quos Collegio Corporis Christi (Cambridge, 1777), the latter attractively-bound in later half vellum. (3)
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