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VICO, Enea (1523-1567). Augustarum imagines aeris formis expressae; vitae quoque earundem breviter enarratae, signorum etiam, quae in posteriori parte numismatu efficta sunt, ratio explicata. Translated by Natale Conti. Venice: [Paolo Manuzio], 1558.
4° (242 x 174mm). Engraved title page. Ruled throughout in red. 63 full-page engravings, those on G3v and G4v with cancellans engravings pasted over, 10 with versos blank but for page numbers and signatures, woodcut initials and illustrations. (Scattered light spotting.) Mid 19th-century ?French crushed tan morocco gilt, the boards with double borders of triple gilt fillets, gilt turn-ins, the spine gilt in 6 compartments, titled in one, the others with triple gilt fillet borders, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: manuscript quotation from Renouard in an early 19th-century French hand on flyleaf; William Beckford/The Dukes of Hamilton (sale, Sotheby's 1883-1884, to); Bernard Quaritch (bookplate for Hamilton Palace purchases); Edward Arnold (bookplate).
FIRST LATIN EDITION, THE BECKFORD/HAMILTON COPY OF A 'VOLUME [...] BIEN IMPRIMé ET PEU COMMUN' (Renouard). Mortimer identifies 2 states of the plates in the 1557 Italian edition: the second state plates were used for the Latin edition, with the blank cancellans disc pasted over plate XI and the plates numbered in roman numerals, and a portrait was added to the second state blank medallion of plate VIII. In the Harvard copy, as in the present, manuscript corrections have been made to the text in quire b, that are not called for in the errata leaves *1-2. Adams V-634; Brunet V, 1175; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 533; Renouard Alde p.176, no.18.
4° (242 x 174mm). Engraved title page. Ruled throughout in red. 63 full-page engravings, those on G3v and G4v with cancellans engravings pasted over, 10 with versos blank but for page numbers and signatures, woodcut initials and illustrations. (Scattered light spotting.) Mid 19th-century ?French crushed tan morocco gilt, the boards with double borders of triple gilt fillets, gilt turn-ins, the spine gilt in 6 compartments, titled in one, the others with triple gilt fillet borders, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: manuscript quotation from Renouard in an early 19th-century French hand on flyleaf; William Beckford/The Dukes of Hamilton (sale, Sotheby's 1883-1884, to); Bernard Quaritch (bookplate for Hamilton Palace purchases); Edward Arnold (bookplate).
FIRST LATIN EDITION, THE BECKFORD/HAMILTON COPY OF A 'VOLUME [...] BIEN IMPRIMé ET PEU COMMUN' (Renouard). Mortimer identifies 2 states of the plates in the 1557 Italian edition: the second state plates were used for the Latin edition, with the blank cancellans disc pasted over plate XI and the plates numbered in roman numerals, and a portrait was added to the second state blank medallion of plate VIII. In the Harvard copy, as in the present, manuscript corrections have been made to the text in quire b, that are not called for in the errata leaves *1-2. Adams V-634; Brunet V, 1175; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 533; Renouard Alde p.176, no.18.
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