Le imagini delle donne auguste intagliate in istampa di rame
By: con le vite, et ispositioni di Enea Vico, sopra i reuersi delle loro medaglie antiche. Libro primo
Publisher: Appresso Enea Vico Parmigiano, et Vincenzo Valgrisio, all'insegna d'Erasmo
Published: 1557
Place of publication: In Vinegia
Language: ita
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Empresses; Biography; Early works to 1800; Portraits; Roman Coins
Notes: Sixty-three full-page engravings, mostly medallion ports. in elaborate surrounds. They are in Mortimer's 2nd state, with Roman numbering. Four of the medallions have been left blank (plates III, XI, XV, XXIII). There are also 9 engravings that depict arrays of 12 medallions; none of the 9 have all 12 spaces filled in, the places being indicated by empty circles. There are five small woodcut medallions in the text.

Printer's device with inscription "Vincent" on leaf 2D4v.

No more published.

Engraved t.p. depicting a sculptured monument.

Woodcut initials.

Includes index.

[xvi], 212, [2] p.: ill.; 23 cm. Signatures: a-c⁴, B-Z, Aa-Dd⁴.

Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent, 532

Adams, V633