Gian Vittorio Rossi (1570-1647)

PINACOTHECA IMAGINUM ILLUSTRIUM, DOCTRINAE VEL INGENII LAUDE, VIRORUM

1692
Format 12°, 16.8x9.7 cm. 300, 233 (PINACOTHECA ALTERA) and 303 (PINACOTHECA TERTIA) numbered pp., in Latin. Title page(s) printed in black. Copper-engraved frontispiece with a portrait of the author. Solid vellum binding with manuscript paper labels. One of the later editions of a popular collection of portraits and biographies of leading scholars, humanists and men of letters of the 16th and 17th centuries. Originally published in several volumes (parts) from the 1640s onward. On the title page two blind-stamped ownership stamps and the ownership inscription "Leopoldi Scherschnik 1802.", further notes on the front pastedown and flyleaf, e.g. "Pro captu lectoris habent sua fata Libelli Manitius" and "emit me 15. Argenteis F. W. Fuchs Vratisl: 26. Febr. 1716". Binding slightly damaged and somewhat loose, text block in good condition.