Accession number
PML 1661.2
Creator
Vico, Enea, 1523-1567, engraver.
Published
Venetiis : [Paulus Manutius], M.D. LX. [1560]
Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection,
Description
130, [14] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 23 cm (4to)
Notes
Page 88 misnumbered 78; 33 inverted.
Eight tables of coins on 4 leaves [i.e. gathering C] unsigned but allowed for within the overall signing. Some copies contain an additional 8 leaves of plates duplicating those in gathering [C].
The engraved titl
Eight tables of coins on 4 leaves [i.e. gathering C] unsigned but allowed for within the overall signing. Some copies contain an additional 8 leaves of plates duplicating those in gathering [C].
The engraved titl
Binding
Light brown morocco over pasteboard (23 x 17 cm), gold-tooled, onlays of red, light and dark green, and dark brown morocco in the design of a terminus surrounded by arabesque ornaments, by the King's Binder, Geneva, about 1560. Arabesque pattern on spine;
Variant title
Ex libris XXIII commentariorum in vetera imperatorum Romanorum numismata
Provenance
Georg Sigismund Prakschicky von Zastrisel (1582-1614, Moravian noble active in Geneva), inscription and painted armorial of John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie (1578?-1600) commemorating visit with Zastrisel, dated 7 March 1598/99, "In gratia[m] gen[erosissi
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