CHOUL, Guillaume du.- DISCOVRS | DE LA RELIGION | DES ANCIENS | ROMAINS, | De la castrametation & discipline ...

CHOUL, Guillaume du.- DISCOVRS | DE LA RELIGION | DES ANCIENS | ROMAINS, | De la castrametation & discipline militaire d’iceux. | Des bains & Antiques exercitations | Grecques & Romaines, | [...] | Illustré de Médailles & figures retirées des marbres Antiques, | qui se treuuent à Rome, & par notre Gaule. | [gravura com a marca do impressor].- A Lyon: Par Gvillavme Roville, à l’Escv de Venize. M. D. LXXXI. [1581].- 339, [57], 154, [9, 1 br.] p.: il.; 24 cm.- E., Guillaume du Choul (ca. 1496-1560), French humanist, historian and antiquarian, born in Lyon, known for his extensive medal collection. The edition, consisting of two parts, with independent title pages and pagination, but forming a single typographic unit, is illustrated with a large number of xylographic figures: 554 images of medals, 47 figures in the first part, four of which are full page; 44 full-page figures and five smaller ones, in the second part, emphasizing representations of military themes and images relating to the Roman baths. Copy slightly cropped, but keeping good margins; light handling; smaller (tidal) stains on the last leaves; three sections almost loose. Ownership manuscript on the free endpaper: [illegible]cion del Paraguay. May 14/78. Pd. Berasaluce. Non-contemporary binding (17th century?), full polished calf, keeping the original endpapers in plain paper. Brunet, II, 857.