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His edition of this title \u003cem\u003eAugustarum imagines\u003c\/em\u003e appeared in 1619, Paris, Fleury Bourriquant, for Macé Ruette. Du Val reworked the plates and made substitutions and additions. Vico’s plate XXIII was used at some time as an engraved title-page. it appears in 1619 with traces of a title and Venice imprint on the plate.” The \u003cem\u003eAugustarum imagines\u003c\/em\u003e holds splendid engraved portraits of Roman Empresses and their female relations, from the grandmother of Julius Caesar up to the wife of Domitian, a masterpiece of mannerist book illustration. All the portraits are taken from antique coins and most are inserted in fabulous frames, all different, ornamented with putti, satyrs, allegories and monsters. The second work illustrates coins from the reign of Julius Ceasar with an explanatory text while the final work is an important discussion of the coins of antiquity which includes a list of collections of medals known to Vico at the time. 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His many works on the theory of art gained high praise and are considered by Cicognara to be full of sound judgments. One gathering in second volume very browned, but elsewhere only occasional light foxing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Maggs Bros. Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46126651801757,"sku":"41512","price":950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0669\/0045\/9677\/files\/15588_01_85f03bcf-6d68-4a38-8b50-21a532d80278.jpg?v=1732525511"},{"product_id":"theatre-avec-des-commentaires-et-nhaxti7m","title":"Théâtre . . . avec des commentaires, et autres morceaux intéressans. Nouvelle Edition, augmentée. Geneva (Berlin, Rottmann),","description":"\u003cp\u003eA sumptuous re-impression, with some changes, of Voltaire’s famous 1764 edition (12 volumes in 8vo) published to provide for Corneille’s destitute niece. 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