![VICO, Enea (1523-1567). Augustarum imagines aeris formis expressae; vitae quoque earundem breviter enarratae, signorum etiam, quae in posteriori parte numismatu efficta sunt, ratio explicate. Translated by Natale Conti. Venice: [Paulus Manutius], 1558.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2013/NYR/2013_NYR_02706_0336_000(vico_enea_augustarum_imagines_aeris_formis_expressae_vitae_quoque_earu113622).jpg?w=1)
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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 explicate. Translated by Natale Conti. Venice: [Paulus Manutius], 1558.
4o (193 x 137 mm). Engraved title page. 63 full-page engravings, those on G3v and H1v with cancellans engravings pasted over, 10 with versos blank but for page numbers and signatures, woodcut initials and illustrations. (Leaves b2-6 supplied from another copy, E3 and F4 with small holes within image and text on verso.) Early 18th-century English red morocco gilt for the Earl of Sunderland, covers with central lozenge-shaped ornament formed of volutes and flowers, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, edges gilt. Provenance: Janus Jobert, 'avocat au Parlement,' author of six legal pamphlets (his two different bookplates on verso of title and b1); Hadrian Beverland (ca 1650-1716), nephew of Vossius, who bought several of Jobert's books on coins when his library was dispersed (signature on title); Charles Spencer, third Earl of Sunderland (1674-1722), purchased from Beverland before the latter's death in 1716 (his sale 10-21 March 1883, lot 12955); L.S. Olschki (label partly removed); Lucy Ann Pease (bookplate); Jeudwine (bookplate); "F E J G" (bookplate); acquired from Marlborough Rare Books, 1989.
FIRST LATIN EDITION 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. The present copy has the first state of plate XI, without the blank cancellans disc pasted over and without roman numerals. The remaining plates are in the second state with roman numerals added.
The binding appears to be from the same Parisian shop as two books in the Pepys Library at Cambridge (see plate 38b in H.M. Nixon's catalogue of the bindings in the Pepys Library) and Petau's Antiquariae in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, both of which were also owned by Jobert. Adams V-634; Brunet V, 1175; Mortimer Italian 533 (with cancels on G3v and G4v; Renouard Alde p.176, no.18.
4o (193 x 137 mm). Engraved title page. 63 full-page engravings, those on G3v and H1v with cancellans engravings pasted over, 10 with versos blank but for page numbers and signatures, woodcut initials and illustrations. (Leaves b2-6 supplied from another copy, E3 and F4 with small holes within image and text on verso.) Early 18th-century English red morocco gilt for the Earl of Sunderland, covers with central lozenge-shaped ornament formed of volutes and flowers, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, edges gilt. Provenance: Janus Jobert, 'avocat au Parlement,' author of six legal pamphlets (his two different bookplates on verso of title and b1); Hadrian Beverland (ca 1650-1716), nephew of Vossius, who bought several of Jobert's books on coins when his library was dispersed (signature on title); Charles Spencer, third Earl of Sunderland (1674-1722), purchased from Beverland before the latter's death in 1716 (his sale 10-21 March 1883, lot 12955); L.S. Olschki (label partly removed); Lucy Ann Pease (bookplate); Jeudwine (bookplate); "F E J G" (bookplate); acquired from Marlborough Rare Books, 1989.
FIRST LATIN EDITION 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. The present copy has the first state of plate XI, without the blank cancellans disc pasted over and without roman numerals. The remaining plates are in the second state with roman numerals added.
The binding appears to be from the same Parisian shop as two books in the Pepys Library at Cambridge (see plate 38b in H.M. Nixon's catalogue of the bindings in the Pepys Library) and Petau's Antiquariae in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, both of which were also owned by Jobert. Adams V-634; Brunet V, 1175; Mortimer Italian 533 (with cancels on G3v and G4v; Renouard Alde p.176, no.18.