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Panvinio on the Roman Circus
Panvinius, Onuphrius. DE LUDIS CIRCENSIBUS, LIBRI II. DE TRIUMPHIS, LIBER UNUS. QUIBUS UNIVERSA FERÈ ROMANORUM VETERUM SACRA RITUSQ. DECLARANTUR, AC FIGURIS AENEIS ILLUSTRANTUR... Venetiis: Apud Ioannem Baptistam Ciottum Senenfem, 1600. First edition. Folio [39 by 26 cm], early 18th century brown mottled calf; spine with six raised bands, richly decorated in gilt; tan spine label, gilt; board edges decorated in gilt; marbled endpapers; all pages edges red. Finely engraved historiated title; (10), 136 + 15, (1) pages; partly engraved title to second part, with engraved bas-de-page, included in pagination; 25 + 6 finely engraved folding plates, most of them double-page plates bound in on hinges, several depicting coins; engraved headpiece; woodcut headpieces, tailpiece, decorations and initials. Binding worn, with spine head repaired with modern leather; joints cracked, but binding sound; front hinge reinforced with archival tissue; moderate browning. Very good or so. A rare work. Onofrio Panvinio (1529/30–1568) was a polymath, scholar, and Augustinian monk from Verona, though he spent much time in Rome. Babelon notes that his work was encouraged by Emperor Ferdinand I, who had acquired the coin collection of Jacob de Strada. Strada's 1557 edition of Panvinio's Fasti et triumphi Romanorum is well-known, if flawed. The present work, the first edition of a posthumous compendium, "is illustrated with images taken from Jacopo de Strada's collection," according to Babelon (Ancient Numismatics and Its History, page 81, note 51. While Panvinio's legacy is not above reproach (Cunnally notes his proclivity for inventing counterfeit inscriptions: see Images of the Illustrious: The Numismatic Presence in the Renaissance, page 48), his work remains of considerable importance even today. This copy includes a plate not called for by Dekesel, indicated as page Bb and referenced on page 111 of the first title (though bound, along with another plate from the first title, with the second). Dekesel P18. Lipsius 305. Ex Byam Martin Davies, Waltham Place, with his armorial bookplate.
Panvinius, Onuphrius. DE LUDIS CIRCENSIBUS, LIBRI II. DE TRIUMPHIS, LIBER UNUS. QUIBUS UNIVERSA FERÈ ROMANORUM VETERUM SACRA RITUSQ. DECLARANTUR, AC FIGURIS AENEIS ILLUSTRANTUR... Venetiis: Apud Ioannem Baptistam Ciottum Senenfem, 1600. First edition. Folio [39 by 26 cm], early 18th century brown mottled calf; spine with six raised bands, richly decorated in gilt; tan spine label, gilt; board edges decorated in gilt; marbled endpapers; all pages edges red. Finely engraved historiated title; (10), 136 + 15, (1) pages; partly engraved title to second part, with engraved bas-de-page, included in pagination; 25 + 6 finely engraved folding plates, most of them double-page plates bound in on hinges, several depicting coins; engraved headpiece; woodcut headpieces, tailpiece, decorations and initials. Binding worn, with spine head repaired with modern leather; joints cracked, but binding sound; front hinge reinforced with archival tissue; moderate browning. Very good or so. A rare work. Onofrio Panvinio (1529/30–1568) was a polymath, scholar, and Augustinian monk from Verona, though he spent much time in Rome. Babelon notes that his work was encouraged by Emperor Ferdinand I, who had acquired the coin collection of Jacob de Strada. Strada's 1557 edition of Panvinio's Fasti et triumphi Romanorum is well-known, if flawed. The present work, the first edition of a posthumous compendium, "is illustrated with images taken from Jacopo de Strada's collection," according to Babelon (Ancient Numismatics and Its History, page 81, note 51. While Panvinio's legacy is not above reproach (Cunnally notes his proclivity for inventing counterfeit inscriptions: see Images of the Illustrious: The Numismatic Presence in the Renaissance, page 48), his work remains of considerable importance even today. This copy includes a plate not called for by Dekesel, indicated as page Bb and referenced on page 111 of the first title (though bound, along with another plate from the first title, with the second). Dekesel P18. Lipsius 305. Ex Byam Martin Davies, Waltham Place, with his armorial bookplate.