STREINNIUS, Richardus
FIRST EDITION OF A COLLECTION OF GENEALOGIES OF ROMAN PATRICIAN FAMILIES
STREINNIUS, Richardus. Gentium et familiarum Romanarum stemmata. Richardo Streinnio barone Schuuarzenauio auctore. Ad illustrissimum principem Carolum archiducem Austri√¶
[Geneva], excudebat Henricus Stephanus illustris viri Huldrici Fuggeri typographusexcudebat Henricus Stephanus illustris viri Huldrici Fuggeri typographus, 1559.
Beautifully printed first edition of this work on Roman genealogy by Reichard Streun von Schwarzenau, Austrian nobleman, politician and historian, composed by the author when he was 21 years old. He was later a close associate of Maximilian II, and became renowned as the owner of a substantial private library, A copy of this work, in contemporary limp vellum, is preserved from Michel de Montaigne s library.
Adams S1931; Renouard, Estienne, 118:2