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(PORTRAITS.) Bound volume containing 4 series of engraved portraits, depicting Portuguese and Polish Kings, Grand Masters of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, and Ottoman Sultans. 4 parts in one volume. Folio, 357x232 mm, contemporary mottled sheep gilt, worn; title of each part cut into strips and mounted, plates trimmed to borders and inlaid, varying foxing or browning and scattered stains. Rome: Domenico de' Rossi, 1699-1709
These engravings were originally issued on large sheets with multiple images. See Indice delle Stampe . . . esistenti nella Stamperia di Domenico de' Rossi (Rome, 1718), page 95.
Icones ordine tempore expositae Lusitanorum regum. Title, dedication to André de Melo e Castro, Conde de Galveias, 25 (of ?) portraits, and colophon, engraved by Girolamo de' Rossi. (1708.)
Series chronologica ducum et regum Polonorum a Lacho I ad Augustum II. Title, dedication to Cardinal Giuseppe Renato Imperiali, note to reader by Count Girolamo Curzio Clementini, coat of arms, 50 (of ?) portraits, and 2 empty cartouches, engraved by Benedetto Farjat. (1702.)
Chronologia de i Gran Maestri dello Spedale della Sacra Religione Militare di S. Gio. Gerosolimitano et dell'Ordine del Santo Sepolcro oggi detti di Malta. Title, dedication to Grand Master Raimundo Rabasa de Perellós y Rocafull, and 68 (of ?) portraits, engraved by Girolamo de Rossi. [1709.]
Ottomanorum principum effigies ab Ottomano ad regnantem Mustapham II. Title, note to reader by Julius Mandosius, 26 (of ?) portraits, and 2 empty cartouches, engraved by Nicolas Dorigny. (1699.)
