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1544 ILLUSTRATED PAPAL CHRONICLE ANTIQUE Platina’s Vitae pontificum VELLUM BOUND

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Title: 1544 ILLUSTRATED PAPAL CHRONICLE ANTIQUE Platina’s Vitae pontificum VELLUM BOUND

Description: Les vies, faictz et gestes des sainctz peres, papes, empereurs, et roys de France.
Ensemble les heresies, scismes, concilles, guerres & autres choses dignes de memoire [...] depuis tournees en Francoys.
Paris, [1544]
Size 4 1/4 by 6 1/2
Rare French translation of the Vitae pontificum, Platina’s (1421-1481) famous chronicle of the papacy through its 1500-year history (1st printed 1479).
Woodcut mark on title.
Numerous small woodcut portraits of popes.
Prov. Jesuit ownership entry on title.
Original vellum binding
Some wear. Last page is missing
Text in French

Reserve: $562.00

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1544 ILLUSTRATED PAPAL CHRONICLE ANTIQUE Platina’s Vitae pontificum VELLUM BOUND

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