1574 HISTORY of VENICE antique AMMAN ILLUSTRATED 103 VENETIAN DOGES ENGRAVINGS

De vita, moribus, et rebus gestis omnium ducum Venetorum.

by MARCELLO, Pietro

[Frankfurt: Feyerabend; 1574]

 With 103 woodcuts
(83 portraits of Doges with their coats of arms and 20 sepulchral monuments)


Describes life, customs and deeds of the Doges of Venice

- VD16 ZV 10389. USTC 631866. Adams M 532. Cf. Jöcher III, 141. NDB I, 251f. (Amman). -


First Latin edition of this richly illustrated chronicle of Venice, based on Sabellico's "Rerum Venetarum" of 1487.

The text woodcuts by the important Swiss-German draftsman, engraver, and painter Jost Amman (1539-1591) depict the Doges of Venice along with their coats of arms.


- Title page missing (provided in faksimile), paper  browned

Old library paper binding with manuscript title to the front cover

Size about 4 by 6 1/2 inches

Text in Latin
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