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Vico, Aeneas [Augustarum Imagines Aeris Formis Expressae; Vitae Quoque Earundem Breviter Erratae...], Venice: [Paulus Manutius], 1558, 63 full-page engravings, mounted slip cancels on: C2 verso, C4 verso, G3 verso, G4 verso, all leaves before b1 lacking, numerous woodcut illustrations, D4 with loss to lower margin and with fore-edge tear (extending 18mm into engraving), some signatures supplied from another copy, variable spotting (mainly to margins), disbound, front pastedown with armorial bookplate of William Stirling rear pastedown with book label 'Arts of Design, Keir', 18th century vellum gilt, monogram of William Stirling on front cover, spine ends worn, 4to Adams V-634; Mortimer, Italian 533. The first edition of Natale Conti's Latin translation of Vico's 'Le imagini delle donne auguste', printed in 1557. (Qty: 1)