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Vinegia, 1558. Small 4to, pp. x, 192. Illustrated with an engraved title-page and 61 full page engravings (closed tear to one illustration) containing 103 medallion portraits. Bound in contemporary vellum (front hinge little loose) with the bookplate of Victor Albert George Villiers, Earl of Jersey. Some light water stain on the upper inner margin, closed tear to one engraving. Lacks five leaves of the preliminary matter (index) and two leaves of errata in the rear, but with good clear impressions of the engravings. Brunet V, 1175, Mortimer, Italian 16th Century Books 533; Adams vol. II, V634. Contains medallions, portraits and biographies of the Roman empresses. Vico was born in Parma and was invited to Florence by Cosmo I, where he engraved some of the best works of Michelangelo. (See Bryan Vol. V, p. 297.).