XII cardinalium pietate doctrina rebusq. gestis maxime illustrium imagines et elogia.

4to: 5-[27] pp. (some normal browning and a couple of stains, mainly marginal, some wormtracks not affecting the plates).

Contemp. vellum, flat spine.

First edition, rarely on the market, of one of the rarest of several books of "effigies" published and engraved by Galle. Ill. with an engr. title and 13 portraits by Ph. after Th. Galle incl. the cardinals John Fisher, Reginald Pole, Bessarion and Ximenes, the poet and grammarian Pietro Bembo, etc. and a portrait of Pope Adrian VI.
Ref. STCV. - Adams G-143. - BT 1221. - Pettegree (NB) 12823. - Dekesel G-4. - Imhof G-9. - USTC 402426.
Prov. W.m Constable Esq. F.RS. & F.A.S. (arm. bookpl.).