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1571 DISCOURSE on ANCIENT RELIGION of ROMANS antique ILLUSTRATED
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  • Title: 1571 DISCOURSE on ANCIENT RELIGION of ROMANS antique ILLUSTRATED
  • Description: Choul (Guillaume).
    Discorso della Religione Antica de Romani..., composti in Franzese dal S.Guglielmo Choul, Gentilhuomo Lionese, & Bagly delle Monthene del Delfinato, et tradotti in Toscano da M. Gabriel Simeoni Fiorentino.
    Illustrati di Medaglie & Figure, triate de i marmi antichi, quali si trovano a Roma, & nella Francia,
    (Discourse on the ancient religion of the Romans...
    composed in French by the s. Guglielmo Choul, Lyonnais gentleman, & Bagly of the Dauphine Mountains, and translated into Tuscan by m. Gabriel Simeoni from Florence.
    Illustrated with medals & figures, taken from ancient marbles, such as are found in Rome & France)
    Lyon: Guillaume Rouille; 1571
    first part only (not including the second part, on Roman Military Discipline)
    title with printed woodcut devise and large coat-of-arms of the author to verso,
    several old annotations to tile,
    frayed to blank edges,
    illustrated throughout with numismatic, mythological, and military woodcuts
    some marks and light water stains,
    Original limp vellum (some restoration), some marks and wear, title page repaired
    4to: 7 by 9"
    text in Italian

    Edition in the Italian translation by Gabriele Simeoni, accompanied by a very extensive illustrative apparatus, of this treatise by Guillaume du Choul, French antiquarian, humanist, numismatist and collector, on the religious customs of the Romans and on ancient castrations
    The numerous woodcut illustrations present are attributed by Baudrier to Pierre Eskrich.
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    Reserve: $900.00

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    1571 DISCOURSE on ANCIENT RELIGION of ROMANS antique ILLUSTRATED

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