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Errata, p. [193-196].T.p. engraved, with architectural border. The portrait heads after Roman coins and medals are in roundels, surrounded by legends that give the subject's name, within a beaded border. They are set in decorative, architectural, or landscape surrounds, some of which contain empty roundels, without heads. Initials."De même que le volume des médailles des Césars, de 1554, celui-ci quoique sans nom d'imprimeur, est certainement de l'imprimerie de Paul Manuce; mêmes lettres capitales historiées, mêmes caractères que dans ses autres éditions." cf. A. A. Renouard, Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde ... Paris, 1834, p. 176, no. 18.N. Conti's translation of the Italian ed. of 1557, published at Venice by Vico and Vincenzo Valgrisi; see Mortimer.Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent.,Mode of access: Internet.At head of front pastedown is ownership inscription of Vincenzo Benedetto Bizzi of Piacenza. Below is a slip from a bookseller's catalog for the 1619 Paris ed. At the foot is Ulrich Middeldorf's label.Binding: old black goatskin. Boards outlined with fillets in gilt, central ovals filled with arabesques. Gold tooling on spine. Page edges gilt