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CICCARELLI, Antonio (d.1599). Le vite de pontefici di... Rome: Domenico Basa, 1588. 4to. Engraved title, engraved illustration showing Christ presenting the keys to St. Peter and 232 large engraved portraits of popes (occasional browning, old signature erasure with some penetration to verso on title–page). Early vellum, spine wrapped in 18th c.? paper with old spine label (remnants of old ties, front hinge cracked). FIRST EDITION of Ciccarelli’s history of the popes from St. Peter to Sixtus V. Adams C1636.