Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 298

Price Realized: $ 438
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
VICO, ENEA. Discorsi . . . sopra le Medaglie de gli Antichi. Printer's large woodcut device on title; engraved portrait of the dedicatee, Cosimo de' Medici, on *2v. 112, [16] pages. 4to, 208x148 mm, old vellum boards, soiled, turn-ins sprung; gatherings H and K severely browned and stained, gathering P toned, small dark stains on C2-D1, bottom of printer's device cropped, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp on title, accession number on next leaf. Venice: Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1555

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first edition. "The first handbook or manual on coin-collecting"--Grolier/Numismatics, page 31 (1558 second edition); Harvard/Mortimer-Italian 531 (this edition).