[EARLY PRINTING]. RUSCELLI, [Girolamo (d. 1566)]. Indice de gl'uomini illustri, del Sig. Ieronimo Ruscelli. Opera utilissima chiunque vorr hauer notitia, e valersi di tutti i nomi, & conditioni de gli uomini, & donne, & Dei, celebrati cos" da Poeti, come da gl'Istorici, e da Filosofi. Venice: Comin da Trino di Monferrato, 1572. Small 4to. [4], 172 leaves. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut headband and decorative initial letters. Eighteenth-century half calf over speckled boards, gilt spine with brown morocco label, decorative pastedown endpapers. FIRST EDITION OF THIS EARLY BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

Binding worn and chipped, joints cracking, light dampstain in bottom margin of first twenty or so leaves. Title-page restored a lower corner, trimmed a bit close at upper margins, with occasional minor textual loss. Late nineteenth-century armorial bookplate of Maturin Livingston Delafield (of the famous American family, the Livingstons) on front pastedown, ink inscription of the grandson of the owner of the bookplate. A very good copy.