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AUGUSTARUM IMAGINES; aereis formis expressae: Vita quoque carundem breuiter enarratae Signorum etiam, qua in posteriori parte numismatii efficta sut ratio explicata .. by VICO, Enea. (1523-1567) - 1619

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AUGUSTARUM IMAGINES; aereis formis expressae: Vita quoque carundem breuiter enarratae Signorum etiam, qua in posteriori parte numismatii efficta sut ratio explicata .. by VICO, Enea. (1523-1567) - 1619

AUGUSTARUM IMAGINES; aereis formis expressae: Vita quoque carundem breuiter enarratae Signorum etiam, qua in posteriori parte numismatii efficta sut ratio explicata ..

by VICO, Enea. (1523-1567)

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Paris: Macaeum Rvette, 1619. First French edition. 4to, pp. xii, 196. Illustrated with an engraved title-page and 63 full page mounted engravings (closed tear to one illustration) containing 103 medallion portraits, woodcut coins in tex. BOUND WITH: EX LIBRIS XXIII COMMENTARIORUM IN VETERA IMPERATORUM ROMANORUM NUMISMATA. pp. 130, [xii]. With engraved title, portrait and 9 full-page engravings, including a full-page plate incorporating a bust of Julius Caesar and 8 full-page plates of coins. BOUND WITH: DISCORSI DI ENEA VICO PARMIGIANO, sopra le Medaglie de Gli Antichi. .. Opera Restituta da GI. Battista DuVallio. pp. 112, [xiv]. The three works bound in contemporary vellum (front hinge and some of the preliminary matter little loose), spine crudely repaired with old linen. Pages toned and some light intermittant water stain on the margin, A very good copy. See Brunet V, 1175, Mortimer, Italian 16th Century Books 533; Adams vol. II, V634 for the first edition of the first title. These were originally issued in Venice, 1555-1560. A fine collection of works by Enea Vico published in France for the first time and prepared by Jean-Baptiste Duval from the original plates. Mortimer notes, "Jean Baptiste Du Val secured a privilege in 1618 to print the works of Vico with the original copperplates. His edition of this title Augustarum imagines appeared in 1619, Paris, Fleury Bourriquant, for Macé Ruette. Du Val reworked the plates and made substitutions and additions. Vico's plate XXIII was used at some time as an engraved title-page. it appears in 1619 with traces of a title and Venice imprint on the plate." This includes engraved portraits of Roman Empresses and their female relations, from the grandmother of Julius Caesar up to the wife of Domitian. All the portraits are taken from antique coins and most are inserted in frames, all different, ornamented with putti, satyrs, allegories and monsters. The second work illustrates coins from the reign of Julius Ceasar with an explanatory text while the final work is an important discussion of the coins of antiquity which includes a list of collections of medals known to Vico at the time.
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  • Date Published 1619
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Paris: Macaeus Ruette, 1619. Hardcover. Acceptable. Octavo. First French edition. [12] 192 pp, [4]; 63 engravings. Modern cloth. Damp staining to upper half of text block throughout. Soiling to engraved title and final text leaf. <br> Refs: Brunet V, 1175, Mortimer, Italian 16th Century Books 533; Adams vol. II, V634 for the first edition, 1558. This edition was prepared by Jean-Baptiste Duval from the original plates. Mortimer notes, "Jean Baptiste Du Val secured a privilege in 1618 to print the works of Vico with the original copperplates. His edition of this title Augustarum Imagines appeared in 1619. Du Val reworked the plates and made substitutions and additions." Includes engraved portraits of Roman Empresses and their female relations, from the grandmother of Julius Caesar up to the wife of Domitian. All the portraits are taken from antique coins and most are inserted in frames, all different, ornamented with putti, satyrs, allegories and monsters.
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