CAVALIERI, Giovanni Battista (1525-1597). Romanorum imperatorum effigies. Rome: Franciscus Coattinus, 1590. 8° (171 x 114mm). Engraved title within architectural border, crown at top hand-coloured, full-page engraved coat-of-arms of Cavalieri, 157 portraits on 152 leaves by Cavalieri, with the blanks *7-*8, hand-coloured printer's device on verso of final leaf. (Occasional light soiling, lower corner of I3 torn away with loss of one letter on verso.) Contemporary vellum (lacking ties, lightly soiled, rubbed). Provenance: partly erased old inscription at head of title -- Thomas Hodkin, Newcastle on Tyne (bookplate). Brunet I: 1697.