Engraved t.p., with elaborate border; initials; Valgrisi's serpent mark on last page

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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, and historiated woodcut initials

Errata, p. [213-214]

Binding: 16th-century calf over pasteboard. The covers are gold tooled: outlined with double fillets, and stamped with center oval and corner pieces filled with interlace patterns. Rebacked. Two pairs of skin ties at foredges. The edges gilt

Library's copy inscribed at foot of t.p. by Abraham Ortelius. Besterman points out that Ortelius published on a related topic: Deorum dearumque capita ex antiquis numismatibus Abrami Ortelii ... collecta. Errata are occasionally corrected in Ortelius's hand. Two shelf marks appear at head of t.p. (A.III.21, 429). Royal Society's SOLD stamp, p. 212. Bookplates of Oliver Henry Perkins and of Theodore Besterman on front pastedown

Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent.

Besterman, T. Art books

[16], 212, [4] pages : 23 cm (4to)

Signatures: a-c⁴ B-2D⁴

Engraved title page depicting a sculptured monument

Sixty-three full-page engravings of medallion portraits in elaborate surrounds or arrays of 12 medallions; some medallions are left blank. Five small woodcut medallions in the text

Initials; printer's device on leaf 2D4 verso of a serpent wrapped around a T supported by two hands coming out of clouds, with "Vincent" printed

Errata on leaf 2D3

Includes index

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