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Omnium Caesarum verissimae imagines ex antiquis numismatis desumptae : addita per brevi cuiusque vitae descriptiones ac diligenti eorum, quae reperiri potuerunt numismatum, aversae partis delineatione. Libri primi / Aenevs Vicus Parm. F., Anno MDLIIII.

Accession number
PML 1661.1
Creator
Vico, Enea, 1523-1567, engraver.
Published
[Venice] : [Paolo Manuzio], [1554]
Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection,
Description
62 leaves (engraved t.p. + 46 leaves of engraved plates and 14 leaves of text) ; (4to)
Notes
Contents of copies varies. Some copies have an index. No. of pages used for plates varies depending upon whether or not versos were used.
Engraved t.p. included in count of plates as are 12 engraved historiated full page cartouches with portraits of
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;
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
Classification
Century
Department