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(GIOVIO, PAOLO, Bishop of Nocera.) Müller, Theobald. Musaei Ioviani imagines. 134 woodcut portraits of famous rulers, statesmen, and military leaders by Tobias Stimmer, each with verse captions by Müller. [72] leaves, including final blank. 4to, 211x145 mm, 17th-century speckled sheep gilt, missing portions from top and bottom of spine, covers warped, partly worn through along edges; contents dampstained, worming in upper outer corner of first few leaves not affecting text, title soiled. Basel: Petrus Perna, 1577
first edition of a collection of verses written to accompany Stimmer's woodcuts after paintings in the portrait gallery at Giovio's villa on Lake Como. The illustrations first appeared in the 1575 Perna edition of Giovio's Elogia vivorum bellica virtute illustrium. Alden 577/20 (for portraits of Columbus and Cortés); Adams M1895.
