revised and corrected, woodcut vignette containing Papal portrait on title, some minor staining and other light marking, but overall internally very good, armorial bookplate on front pastedown, 19th century half calf, slightly rubbed at corner tips, small split near head of spine, [not in Adams], small 8vo, Venice, Girolamo Polo , 1590. A modest edition of the author's Lives of the Popes , a work most famous perhaps for its malicious misrepresentation of Paul II as an enemy of science which for a long time afterwards misinformed historical opinion. Platina was also author of De honesta voluptate et valetudine ( On honourable pleasure and health , c.1474), one of the first printed cookbooks