Avgvstarvm imagines aereis formis expressae
Subtitle: vitae quoque earundem breuiter enarratae, signorum etiam, quae in posteriori parte numismatu[m] efficta su[n]t
By: ratio explicata ab Aenea Vico parmense
Publisher: [P. Manutius Aldus]
Published: 1558
Place of publication: Venetiis
Language: lat
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Empresses; Portraits; Roman Coins
Work titles: Imagini delle donne auguste
Notes: Translation by N. Conti of: Le Imagini delle donne auguste intagliate in istampa di rame. Vinegis : [s.n.], 1557--Cf. BM, v. 248, c. 376.

Engraved t.p. with architectural border.

"De même que le volume des médailles des Césars, de 1554, celui-ci quoique sans nom d'imprimeur, est certainement de l'imprimerie de Paul Manuce: mêmes lettres capitales historiées, mêmes caractéres que dans ses autres éditions"--Cf. A.A. Renouard, Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde..., Paris, 1834, p. 176, no. 18.

Includes 63 numbered leaves of engraved full-page plates of ports. on coins in architectural settings.  Plates iv, xv, and xxiii lack coin ports.  Plate xi has blank oval pasted over port.

Avery Classics copy: With the bookplates of Robert Bruce Moyer and Oliver Spaulding.

BM, v. 248, c. 376