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Two 1619 Works by Enea Vico
Vico, Enea. DISCORSI DI ENEA VICO PARMIGIANO, SOPRA LE MEDAGLIE DE GLI ANTICHI. DIVISI IN DUE LIBRI, OVE SI DIMOSTRANO NOTABILI ERRORI DI SCRITTORI ANTICHI, E MODERNI, INTORNO ALLE HISTORIE ROMANE. CON DUE TAVOLE, L'UNA DE'CAPITOLI, L'ALTRA DELLE COSE PIU NOTABILI. OPERA RESTITUTA DA GI. BATTISTA DU VALLIO. In Pariggi: Apresso Maceo Ruette, poco discosto della Commandaria di S. Giovanni Laterano, con Privilegio, 1619. 112, (16) pages; woodcut title device; woodcut headpieces, tailpieces, and initials. [bound with] Vico, Aeneas. AUGUSTARUM IMAGINES AEREIS FORMIS EXPRESSAE: VITAE QUOQUE EARUNDEM BREVITER ENARRATAE, SIGNORUM ETIAM QUAE IN POSTERIORI PARTE NUMISMATUM EFFICTA SUNT, RATIO EXPLICATA, AB AENEA VICO PARMENSE. Drop-title on first of 7 printed/ engraved leaves + 192, (4) pages; woodcut initials and a few headpieces; occasional engravings of coins in the text; 63 finely engraved plates, mostly depicting ancient Roman portrait coins within superbly engraved historiated borders. Lacks title page. Two works, bound in one volume. 4to [25 by 18 cm], 18th-century full brown speckled calf; spine ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt; marbled endpapers. Spine worn, but binding intact. Very good or so. Jonathan Kagan writes of Enea Vico (1523–1567), in Numismatics in the Age of Grolier, 2001: "Born and trained in Parma, Enea Vico's early life is obscure until he surfaces in Rome in the 1540s, producing engraved reproductions of classical and modern works for a growing market of print collectors. After a brief stay in Florence, Vico applied to the Signoria (city council) of Venice in 1546 for a residency permit, promising to publish 'some very beautiful and rare designs never before seen or printed.' He stayed in Venice for sixteen years, fulfilling his promise by printing [a] series of elegant numismatic books... Especially important for the history of numismatics was Vico's insistence that ancient coins were actually struck as currency for circulation, in contrast to the opinion of his rival Sebastiano Erizzo, who argued that these beautiful coins were produced as commemorative medals and objects of art, and were not seen or handled by the vulgar." Dekesel V57 and V58. Ex Patricia A. Milne-Henderson Library, with her bookplate.
Vico, Enea. DISCORSI DI ENEA VICO PARMIGIANO, SOPRA LE MEDAGLIE DE GLI ANTICHI. DIVISI IN DUE LIBRI, OVE SI DIMOSTRANO NOTABILI ERRORI DI SCRITTORI ANTICHI, E MODERNI, INTORNO ALLE HISTORIE ROMANE. CON DUE TAVOLE, L'UNA DE'CAPITOLI, L'ALTRA DELLE COSE PIU NOTABILI. OPERA RESTITUTA DA GI. BATTISTA DU VALLIO. In Pariggi: Apresso Maceo Ruette, poco discosto della Commandaria di S. Giovanni Laterano, con Privilegio, 1619. 112, (16) pages; woodcut title device; woodcut headpieces, tailpieces, and initials. [bound with] Vico, Aeneas. AUGUSTARUM IMAGINES AEREIS FORMIS EXPRESSAE: VITAE QUOQUE EARUNDEM BREVITER ENARRATAE, SIGNORUM ETIAM QUAE IN POSTERIORI PARTE NUMISMATUM EFFICTA SUNT, RATIO EXPLICATA, AB AENEA VICO PARMENSE. Drop-title on first of 7 printed/ engraved leaves + 192, (4) pages; woodcut initials and a few headpieces; occasional engravings of coins in the text; 63 finely engraved plates, mostly depicting ancient Roman portrait coins within superbly engraved historiated borders. Lacks title page. Two works, bound in one volume. 4to [25 by 18 cm], 18th-century full brown speckled calf; spine ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt; marbled endpapers. Spine worn, but binding intact. Very good or so. Jonathan Kagan writes of Enea Vico (1523–1567), in Numismatics in the Age of Grolier, 2001: "Born and trained in Parma, Enea Vico's early life is obscure until he surfaces in Rome in the 1540s, producing engraved reproductions of classical and modern works for a growing market of print collectors. After a brief stay in Florence, Vico applied to the Signoria (city council) of Venice in 1546 for a residency permit, promising to publish 'some very beautiful and rare designs never before seen or printed.' He stayed in Venice for sixteen years, fulfilling his promise by printing [a] series of elegant numismatic books... Especially important for the history of numismatics was Vico's insistence that ancient coins were actually struck as currency for circulation, in contrast to the opinion of his rival Sebastiano Erizzo, who argued that these beautiful coins were produced as commemorative medals and objects of art, and were not seen or handled by the vulgar." Dekesel V57 and V58. Ex Patricia A. Milne-Henderson Library, with her bookplate.