Lot 4
Numismatics.- Fulvio (Andrea) Illustrium imagines, Rome, Giacomo Mazzocchi, 1517, bound with another, together 2 works in 1.
Hammer Price: £1,400
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⁂ Please note the description of this lot has changed ⁂
Numismatics.- Fulvio (Andrea) Illustrium imagines, collation: A-Z4 2A-2G4, title within architectural woodcut border, 204 white-on-black woodcut portrait medallions each set at the head of an architectural woodcut border surrounding text, of which eight designs variously repeated, woodcut initials and printer's device (final f. verso), lacking signature 'S' (4 ff.), 3 blank ff. bound after R4, old paper repair at title edges, some later hand-colouring to B1, Rome, Giacomo Mazzocchi, 1517, bound with Xenophon. Xenophontis socratici rhetoris Hieron sive tyrannus, collation: A-E8 F4, printer's device to title, lacking F1 & 4 (blanks supplied in place), some light browning and occasional marginal damp-stains, Basel, heirs of Johann Froben, 1530, together 2 works in 1, several blank ff. bound in at end, bookplates and later ink notes to front endpaper and pastedown, 18th-century calf, spine gilt, small chip to calf top corner and other light wear, 8vo (157 x 102).
⁂ First edition of the first printed book dedicated to ancient coin portraits, Fulvio's seminal study marks the first attempt within numismatics to use coin portraits to form an historical chronology. The medallion portraits are possibly by the Italian printmaker Ugo da Carpi.
Literature: I: Adams F1156; Edit16 CNCE 19989; Mortimer 203. II: VD16 X 58
Description
⁂ Please note the description of this lot has changed ⁂
Numismatics.- Fulvio (Andrea) Illustrium imagines, collation: A-Z4 2A-2G4, title within architectural woodcut border, 204 white-on-black woodcut portrait medallions each set at the head of an architectural woodcut border surrounding text, of which eight designs variously repeated, woodcut initials and printer's device (final f. verso), lacking signature 'S' (4 ff.), 3 blank ff. bound after R4, old paper repair at title edges, some later hand-colouring to B1, Rome, Giacomo Mazzocchi, 1517, bound with Xenophon. Xenophontis socratici rhetoris Hieron sive tyrannus, collation: A-E8 F4, printer's device to title, lacking F1 & 4 (blanks supplied in place), some light browning and occasional marginal damp-stains, Basel, heirs of Johann Froben, 1530, together 2 works in 1, several blank ff. bound in at end, bookplates and later ink notes to front endpaper and pastedown, 18th-century calf, spine gilt, small chip to calf top corner and other light wear, 8vo (157 x 102).
⁂ First edition of the first printed book dedicated to ancient coin portraits, Fulvio's seminal study marks the first attempt within numismatics to use coin portraits to form an historical chronology. The medallion portraits are possibly by the Italian printmaker Ugo da Carpi.
Literature: I: Adams F1156; Edit16 CNCE 19989; Mortimer 203. II: VD16 X 58
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