250 - Gualdo Priorato, Galeazzo. A Portrait of Some Illustrious Men of Italy... Known to the Author from History. Turin, Coiro, 1658. A copy bound in sheepskin from a very rare first edition

Gualdo Priorato, Galeazzo. A Portrait of Some Illustrious Men of Italy... Known to the Author from History. Turin, Coiro, 1658. A copy bound in sheepskin from a very rare first edition Gualdo Priorato, Galeazzo. Scena d'alcuni huomeni illustri d'Italia... conosciuti dall'autore nell'istoria. Turin, Coiro, 1658. Quarto (265 x 190 mm); [13], [233] leaves. Illustrated frontispiece engraved by Giacomo Piccini, portrait of Alessandro Farnese—to whom the work is dedicated—with his coat of arms opposite, 39 portraits and coats of arms engraved on copper, decorative borders and printer’s mark on the title page, ornamental borders and initials in the text (frontispiece and title page mounted on paper, minor age-related defects). Eighteenth-century half-leather binding with a handwritten title on the spine. A copy that belonged to the Vicenza-based bibliophile Leonardo Trissino, bearing his handwritten note of ownership. Each biography is preceded by a portrait and coat of arms of the person described. Cicognara 2039: “The author did not number the pages so that new biographies could be inserted in subsequent printings.” Uncut copy of a very rare first edition