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Panvinio, Onofrio (1529-1568) XXVII Pontificum Maximorum. Elogia et Imagines.
Rome: Ant. Lafrerii Formeis, 1568.
Folio, unrecorded issue with added portrait of Gregory XIII and the plate of Pius V in an early state without the engraver's signature; elaborate engraved title and twenty-eight portraits of the popes; bound in modern half morocco with marbled paper boards, ownership initials dated 1944 on title; 12 1/8 x 8 3/4 in.
"The volume consists of twenty-seven full page engraved portraits of the popes from Urban VI to Pius V, printed on the recto of each leaf with text on the facing page." (Mortimer Italian #356.)
