ROUILLÉ (Guillaume) Prima pars [- pars secunda] promptuarii iconum insigniorum à seculo hominum, subiectis eorum vitis, per compendium ex probatissimis autoribus desumptis Lyon: Guillaume Roullé, 1553. - 2 parts in one volume, in-4, reused stiff ivory parchment, smooth spine (19th or 20th century binding). Latin first edition of this collection of over 800 portraits of illustrious figures, real and imaginary, from Adam to Jeanne d'Albret, each represented in the form of a woodcut medal, accompanied by a very short biography. Page 3 of the second part features an engraving depicting the Nativity. Its author was the Lyonnais bookseller and publisher Guillaume Rouillé (1518-1589), who also published the work in French and Italian the same year. Copy bound in the 19th or 20th century from old parchment. Crack to one jaw. Several leaves browned.