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[PLATINA, Bartolomeo (1421–1481)]. –– RYCAULT, Paul (1629–1700), translator. The Lives of the Popes… London: Printed for Christopher Wilkinson, 1685. Folio in fours. Engraved frontispiece after R. White, title printed in red and black, woodcut initials. Full contemporary calf neatly rebacked with raised bands, red morocco spine label gilt, original endpapers retained. Provenance: Jacob des Bouverie 1694–1761 (bookplate title verso ca. pre–1736 when he succeeded his elder brother in the baronetcy and to Longford castle where he dropped the prefix in his surname). FIRST EDITION of the work that returned Platina back in favor of the Church under Sixtus IV, having been imprisoned twice before for his writings that were deemed anti–Papal with accusations of impiety and pantheism. Wing P2403. From the private library of a prominent Chicago collector, part II.