Platina, Bartholomew. De vitis ac gestis summorum pontificum, ad sua usque tempora, liber unus. Huic additae sunt vitae ac res gestae eorum qui interim fure pontificum, a Paulo videlicet II. ad Paulum huius nominis III. 2 parts in 1 volume. 6 Bl., 314 pp., 1 Bl.; 92 pp., 5 Bl. With woodcut printer brand, woodcut title border and some multi-line woodcut initials by A. Woensam. 29.5 x 20 cm. Leather d. C. (Berieben, Kapitale fehlte) with gold-plated and gold-embossed RSchild. Cologne, Eucharius Cervicornus for Gottfried Hittorp, 1540. VD16 P 3261. Adam's P 1418. See Merlo, Woensam 452, 492 and 538 (see also Butsch, Table 83 A). – Second print of the first history of the popes, published in 1529. With contributions by Giovanni Battista Almadiani, Carlo Berardi and Johannes Trithemius. Also deals with the legend material of the Pope Johann on page 119. – Title and index with moisture stain in the edge of the page, title with longer contemporary entry in Sepia. In places with non-disturbing faded moisture changes, occasionally also with old underscores and marginalia. Two sheets of the fores with a small hole in the set mirror. All in all a beautiful and well preserved specimen from the library of the French clergyman and diplomat Bernardin Bochetel from Bourges, who worked from 1558 to 1565 in the diocese of Rennes and was secretary of King Francis II and Henry III. With its possession entry on the title and the hs. Motto "Spes mea deus" (God is my hope).