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[MILITARIA] ROSCIO, Giulio; MASCARDI, Agostino.... Ritratti et elogii di capitani illustri che ne' secoli moderni hanno gloriosamente guerreggiato. Rome: Mascardi, 1646.
A fine copy of this work, illustrated with over 100 portraits of famous military commanders from Frederick Barbarossa to Louis XIII of France, accompanied by their respective arms; among those represented, from European kingdoms but also from the Ottoman Empire, are Christopher Columbus, Andrea Doria, Bazajet, Charles V, Cesare Borgia, Barbarossa, Frederick II, Francis I of France, Francesco Sforza, Giorgio Castrioti (Scanderbeg), Giovanni de Medici, G. Zamoyski de Zamosci of Poland, Can Grande della Scala, Tamerlane, and many others4to, (240 x 175mm). Engraved frontispiece, over 100 engraved portraits in text by Pompilio Totti and Christoph le Blanc. Contemporary full vellum binding, title gilt to spine. Provenance: Ex libris Petri Andrea Sledde contemporary ownership inscription on the endpapers; Baraux early ownership inscription on the endpapers; Mehr Licht, early 20th-century ex libris with engraved motto and cannon. (1)
ESTIMATE € 300 - 500
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BUONINSEGNI, Domenico (1384-1465). Historia fiorentina. Florence: Marescotti, 1580.
BUONINSEGNI, Domenico (1384-1465). Historia fiorentina. Florence: Marescotti, 1580.
ESTIMATE € 300 - 500
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CICERUS (106-43 BC). Hoc in volumine haec...opera continentur. Venice: Bevilacqua, 1496.
CICERUS (106-43 BC). Hoc in volumine haec...opera continentur. Venice: Bevilacqua, 1496.
ESTIMATE € 800 - 1,200
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CYPRIANUS, Tascio Caecilio (210-258). Opera. Venice: Vindelino da Spira, 1471.
CYPRIANUS, Tascio Caecilio (210-258). Opera. Venice: Vindelino da Spira, 1471.
ESTIMATE € 1,500 - 2,500