Platina (Bartolomeo)

Le Vite De' Pontefici, 2 vol., half title, woodcut in text popes’ portraits with correspondent coat of arms, free endpapers a little foxed, vellum boards, title inked to spines, sprinkled edges, 4to, Stefano Monti, Venice, 1715; with Torsellini (Orazio) Ristretto dell'historie del mondo, woodcut vignette on title, woodcut portrait medallions in text, lacking half title, tear to T9, soiled throughout, note in an early hand on front free endpaper, limp vellum, soiled and a little stained, 12mo, Turrini & Brigonci, Venice, 1663 (3)

*** The first work includes the annotations of Panvinio, with his ‘Cronologia ecclesiastica’, expanded by Bartolomeo Dionigi, Lauro Testa, Francesco Tomasuccio, and others until the year 1703.