[ROUILLÉ, Guillaume].- PRIMA PARTE [& LA SECONDA PARTE] | DEL PRONTVARIO DE | LE MEDAGLIE DE PIV ILLV- | stri, & ...

[ROUILLÉ, Guillaume].- PRIMA PARTE [& LA SECONDA PARTE] | DEL PRONTVARIO DE | LE MEDAGLIE DE PIV ILLV- | stri, & fulgenti huomini & donne, dal principio | del Mondo insino al presente tempo, con | le lor vite in compendio | raccolte. [gravura com a marc do impressor].- In Lione: Apresso Gvglielmo Rovillio, 1553.- [8], 172, [4], 247, [8, 1 br.] p.: il.; 23 cm.- E., First edition of the Italian version of the “Prontuário das medalhas”, the most famous typographic and intellectual production of the printer and humanist Guillaume Rouillé (circa 1518-1589) who, having worked initially in Paris, settled permanently in Lyon from 1545. Rouillé was privileged to publish the work in Latin, French, Italian and Castilian, the first three versions having been published in 1553 and the Castilian only in 1561. The edition is illustrated with 950 medals (two per page), with portraits of men and distinguished women, accompanied by short biographical notes, beginning with Adam and Eve and ending with Henry II of France. The second part, with an independent title page and pagination, constitutes, with the first, a single typographic unit. Copy lightly cropped, with a slight (tidal) stain on the lower outer corner, about half the volume. Small wormholes next to the backbone in about 20 sheets of the second part, extending into a single hole on both sides. Two old handwritten ownerships on the title page. Full sheepskin binding, probably from the 18th century, a little worn, retaining the original endpapers. Brunet, IV, 900.