Rome

Guillaume GUEROULT : First [second] volume of the Chroniques & gestes admirables des Empereurs, avec les effigies d'iceux. Put in French, with a clue to more easily find the name of the said Emperors - Edited by Arnoullet, Lyon, 1552 - Missing the title page and the 3 folding maps of Rome, Paris and Constantinople, 1/2 XIX binding, morocco title page, spine with 4 nerves - The complete illustration includes 132 in-text portraits and 3 folding maps (Constantinople, Rome & Paris) all woodcut. 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 medallion, 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 be later reprinted in the ''Figures and portraits of the most illustrious and renowned cities of Europe'' by the same author. Brunet II -1791 - Ex-libris in colors of Louis Wirion and Paul Lauer