Epitome Pontificum Romanorum a S. Petro usque ad Paulum IIII

Onofrio Panvinio; Jacopo Strada

Venice: Iacobi Stradae Mantuani [Jacobus Strada], 1557

[Papal Iconography] Folio, 30 x 20.5 cm.  Bound in later mottled calf (17th cent.), with gilt stamped spine compartments.  Good binding and cover (professionally rebacked in 1980 in the Netherlands). [4], 428 pp., [16] leaves. Heavily illustrated with woodcuts of the arms of the popes and cardinals, from Saint Peter to Paul III. Generally clean, unmarked pages. Panvinio was an Italian historian and humanist, who was primarily concerned with the study of ancient Rome.  Adams P-194. Graesse V, 123.