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Gaio, Bartholomeo. Series chronologica Patriarchum, Ducum, Judicum, Regum, Pontificum, postremorumque Regum populi Hebraici ab Adam usque ad Agrippam Iuniorem eorum gesta breviter complectens cum suis Iconibus, chronologico ordine exposita.

Suite of engr. title, 112 engr. portrait plates, 1 engr. index leaf, 1 engr. summa leaf. 7 pp. engr. text at the beginning. 4to. Contemp. full calf. – Rome, 1724.

With printed dedication on title leaf to Francisco Farnesio Conte di Parma e Piacenza. Portraits engr. by Ioannes Baptista Sintes and Bartholomeo de Petris. Text engr. by Dominico Franceschini. – (With supplement:) The same. Series Regum Babiloniae, Persarum, et Graecorum ad Operis suppementum. Engr. title, 2 engr. text plates, 16 engr. portrait plates, engr. index plate. Rome, 1730. – (Followed by:) Series Ptolemaeorum Regum Agypti. Engr. tilte leaf, 2 engr. text leaves, 14 engr. portrait plates, engr. index plate. Rome, 1724. Plates engr. by Caietano Piccini, text by Ioannes Petroschi. – With comtemp. ms. owner’s inscription on first blank leaf. Foot margins spotting at the beginning. Worm traces on inner and outer margins, a few restored. Inner hinges unlovely pasted. – Best.-Nr. 15983