De vitis ac gestis summorum pontificum, ad sua usq[ue] tempora, liber vnus.
Subtitle: Huic additae sunt vitae ac res gestae eorum qui interim fuere pontificum, a Paulo uidelicet II. ad Paulum huius nominis III.  Eiusdem item Platinae, De falso & uero bono dialogi tres.  Contra amores I.  De uera nobilitate I.  De optimo ciue II.  Panegyricus in Bessarionem doctiss. Patriarcham Constantinopolitanum.  Oratio ad Paulum II. pont. maximum, de bello Turcis inferendo.
Contributors: Pillone family (association); Brooke, Thomas, Sir, 1830-1908 (bookplate); Vecellio, Cesare, ca. 1521-1601
Publisher: E. Ceruicornus Agrippinas excudebat, Impensis G. Hittorpij ciuis Colonien
Published: 1540
Place of publication: [Coloniae]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Catholic Church -- History.; Popes.
Notes: One of 2 issues with this imprint.

Errors in paging.

Fisher copy: Bound with Agricola, Georg.  De ortu & causis subterraneorum lib. V.  Basileae, 1546. With the armorial bookplate of [Sir] Thomas Brooke F.S.A., Armitage Bridge. Ex libris Pillone Library.

Fisher copy: A contemporary German (?) blind tooled goatskin (?) binding, sewn on 4 double raised tawed leather thongs, laced-in perpendicularly to the spine into wooden boards bevelled on inside edges, and partially on outside. Plain white paper endleaves. Blue textblock edges, painted.  Full bound brown goatskin. Covers finished in blind with 3-line fillet forming 4 concentric panels; on upper cover the central and 3rd panels finished with a pictorial roll depicting religious scenes, 2nd panel with mitred corners; on lower cover, central panel finished with 3-line fillet forming 2 saltires, the 2nd and 4th panels filled with the same pictorial rolls as upper cover. Spine finished with 3-line fillet forming panels, containing large floral tool. Squares finished along length with 1-line fillet, and with 3-line fillet continued over from covers.  Remnants of two brass and leather clasps, hinged on lower cover. Painting of four popes by Cesare Vecellio on fore-edge, which is also titled by hand.