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Folio. [20], 318, [30]pp. []4, +4, ++4, A4-Rr4, a4-d4. Woodcut title within architectural border. Sixth Italian edition. Contemporary vellum, respined, with original spine pasted on. Illustrated extensively with woodcuts of coins and monuments, large woodcut on Rr4 recto. Palau 4106; Cicognara 2727; Universal Catalogue of Books on Art I, p. 11; Graesse I, 252. This edition, like all later editions, includes an additional twelfth dialogue, set in Antwerp, in which the participants are André Schott, the cartographer Abraham Ortelius and the humanist Laevinus Torrentius (Lieven van der Beke), Bishop of Antwerp from 1586 to 1595. Seller Inventory # 1510
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