1600 ILLUSTRATED ROMAN EMPRESSES PORTRAITS antique 55 COPPER PLATES

Le imagini delle donne Auguste intagliate in istampa dirame; con le vite.

by Vico (Enea)

Venice, Giacomo Franco; (c. 1600)


With copperplate fine engraved pictorial title and 55 (instead of 63) copperplate plates showing portrait medallions of the Roman empresses in magnificent frames.


Suede binding, spine with raised bands.

-Cf. Mortimer 532. Ornamentstichsammlung 4243. Thieme-Becker XXXIV, 328. -


Illustrations only, published without the text.

The first edition appeared in Venice in 1557.


Copperplate plates 21, 25, 27, 29, 42, 45, 61, and 63 are missing.

Title and plates are trimmed and mounted 


Back endpaper with period manuscript entry

Size 7 by 9 3/4 inches

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