PINGON (Emmanuel-Philibert de). Inclytorum Saxoniæ Sabaudiæque principum arbor gentilitia. Turin, heirs of Nicolò Bevilacqua, 1581. - Bound at the end:] Notitia utraque cum Orientis tum Occidentis ultra arcadii honoriique cæsarum tempora, illustre vetustatis monumentum, imo thesaurus prorsum incomparabilis. Basel, Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Bischoff, 1552. 2 works in one volume, folio, fawn basane, spine decorated with cold fleurons, red edges (18th century binding). First edition of this important work on the genealogy of the sovereigns of Savoy. It contains a huge family tree of the houses of Saxony and Savoy in eight double-page plates bound consecutively, and is decorated with the arms of the House of Savoy on the title and numerous decorative cartouches in the text, nine of which include portraits (four printed and five mounted), and the others empty. This treatise was written by the historian Emmanuel-Philibert de Pingon (1525-1582), who was successively advocate at the French Parliament in Chambéry, first syndic of Chambéry and Conseiller d'État, referendaire and historiographer to the Duke of Savoy. The first complete and illustrated edition, and the most sought-after, of the Notitia dignitatum, one of the most evocative documents on the Roman Empire after the division between the Eastern and Western Empires, compiled by an anonymous author before 408, has been bound in. The edition was compiled by Sigismundus Gelenius (Gelensky), a former proofreader of Froben's, using a lost ninth-century manuscript. The remarkable illustration includes 127 woodcut figures. Many of them relate to the origins of the book and bookbinding. Léon Gruel used this iconography in his Manuel de l'amateur de reliures to explain the origins of typographic art (scrolls, codexes, books, etc.). Several show costumes or views of Rome and Constantinople. Some are signed with the monogram of Conrad Schnitt; others are attributed to the workshop of Hans Rudolf Manuel-Deutsch. The figures of weapons and military machines that illustrate De rebus bellicis were copied by an anonymous artist from a manuscript now preserved in Munich. From the libraries of the Jesuit College of Molsheim, with ms. bookplate dated 1718, and E. Kegelin (certainly François-Ernest Kegelin (1736-1802), Alsatian priest and heraldist), with ms. bookplate. Top cap missing, minor rubbing, dampstaining to corner of 2 ff.