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Vico, Enea (1523-1567) Discorsi Sopra le Medaglie de gli Antichi Divisi in Due Libri.
Venice: Garbriel Giolito de Ferrari et Fratelli, 1555.
First edition, quarto, large woodcut printer's device dominating the title page, lacking initial blank; final leaf blank but for printer's device present in this copy; 18th century initials and date added in ink to title; bound in modern half calf with marbled paper boards, worn, becoming decased, sewing loosening, 8 x 5 1/2 in.
"The first handbook or manual on coin-collecting." [Quoted from Numismatics in the Age of Grolier, page 31 (referring to the 1558 second edition)].
