Romanorvm imperatorvm effigies : elogijs, ex diuersis scriptoribus per Thomam Treteru[m], S. Mariae, transtyberim canonicum & collectis, illustratae / opera et studio Io Baptae. de Cauallerijs aeneis tabulis incisae.

Accession number: 
PML 129420
Author: 
Cavalieri, Giovanni Battista, approximately 1525-1601.
Published: 
Romae ; anno Domini MDLXXXXII. [1592]
Description: 
6 p. 1., 157 (i.e. 151) numb. 1. : ill. (engravings) ; 18 cm
Credit: 
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Notes: 

Engr. t.-p. incl. ornamental border & arms of dedicatee, Stefan Batory, king of Poland.
Coat of arms of Io. Baptistae de Cavalleriis on recto of l. [A]. Printers' device on verso of last leaf (157) with motto "Nil me dvrivs".
"Series Rom. Imperatorvm eo ordine, quo sibi successerunt, collectas cui numeri foliorum etiam respondent." (3 prelim. pages at front)
Colophon: Romae; apud Franciscum Coattinum. M.D.LXXXX.
Foliation follows numbering of engr. portraits; six leaves have double numbers: 87-88, 98-99, 100-101, 111-112, 116-117, 118-119.
Date on t.p. possibly changed from 1590.
PML copy: t.p. with two areas cut out of engraved t.p. at bottom of architectural border; at right side of t.p. is inscribed very lightly "T 8".
Engraved t.p. (*1) conjugate with l. *4, the last two unnumbered preliminary leaves are followed by two conjugate blank leaves.
PML copy: plate for Emperor Galba incorrectly placed with biography of Emperor Caligula, and the plate of Emperor Caligula incorrectly placed facing the biography of Emperor Galba.
Bühler, Lib. 93.

Binding: 
Contemporary vellum, title inscribed on spine.
Provenance: 
Ex libris L. Herman (bookplate); From the library of Curt F. Bühler.
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