GUEROULT (Guillaume). First [second] volume of the chronicles & admirable gestures of the Emperors, with the effigies of these. Put in French, with a clue to more easily find the name of the said Emperors. Lyon, Arnoullet, 1552. 2 volumes in 1 vol. small in-4 of [8] ff, 333 pp, [1] f. bl. & [4] ff. 146 pp. 132 in-text portraits and 3 folding plans (Constantinople, Rome & Paris) all engraved on wood, burgundy jansenist morocco, ribbed spine, filleted edges, inner lace, gilt tr. Beautiful Lyon printing with the mark of Balthazar Arnoullet on the titles. The author was a typographical corrector in Caen, he wrote compilations in the air of the time and the very first French poems of Calvinist inspiration. First edition of this commented list of all the Roman Emperors whose portraits in medallions, engraved on wood, are taken from the vignettes already used in 1550 to illustrate the "Imperatorum et Caesarum vitae" by Johann Huttich. The three beautiful folding plans appear here for the first time, they will later be reprinted in the "Figures and portraits of the most illustrious and renowned cities of Europe" by the same author. (Brunet II, 1791; Baudrier X, 132-133.) A fine copy.