Author: Rossi, Giovanni Giacomo de (1627-1691); Pietro Vansickleers
Title: Francorvm Regvm Simvlacra a Pharamvndo Ad Lvdovicvm XIV Favste Regnantem Per Temporvm Seriem Distribvta. : Ab Eorum Numismatibus, Statuis, Picturis, Atqué Insignioribus Monumentis Tam Aeneis [Sic] Quam Marmoreis, Quae in Galliarum Regno Asseruantur Primum Eruta Nunc Accurate Insculpta. First Edition
Description: Romae, : Ex officina Io : Iacobi de Rubeis,1686. 4to. 19.5 x 26.6cm. Later quarter calf with gilt over textured purple boards, all edges speckled. With title page (deeply impressed), two folding plates with dedication and address to the reader, followed by 64 portraits in roundels engraved by Pietro Vansickleers mounted to rectos, each with cartouche identifying and offering a biography of the leader, with extra leaves with empty circular frame for additional portraits at the end (as originally printed). Text in Latin..Boards scuffed, edgewear, corners rubbed, wear to tail of spine with cracking at joint; minor insect hole at spine with additional wormholes and trails at front endpapers and several leaves and plates, light to moderate toning and foxing throughout with offsetting, minor grime, light damp staining at corner of several leaves, small corner repair to one leaf, small loss to one leaf not impacting engraving; a well-bound collection of plates that is extremely rare outside of a handful of institutions.. 2 preliminary leaves, [16] leaves : illustrations, 64 portraits ; 56 cm OCLC Number: 796190739.. Consists of title, dedication by G.G. de Rossi and preface to the reader, cut out and mounted on the rectos of two leaves, and 64 portraits, each with short biographical notice, mounted on the rectos of sixteen leaves According to A. de'Rossi, in his Indice delle stampe .. esistenti nella già stamperia de i de Rossi .. Roma, 1754, p. 101, the plates were engraved by Pieter van Sikkelaer Bound with: Aquila, Pietro. Effigies romanorvm imperatorvm [and] Series chronologica et imagines gegv Hispaniae..From the Collection of Professor Roberto Severino, Washington, D.C. .

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