Beschreibung:

Vico, Enea. Augustarum imagines aereis formis expressae Vitae quoque earundem breviter enar[ratae], Signorum etiam quae in posteriori parte numismatum efficta sunt ratio explicata, ab Aenea Vico Parmense [title in manuscript]. [Paris: for Jean-Baptiste Duval, ca 1619-1630?] [bound with:]
Reliquae Augustarum imagines ab Aenea Vico aereis typis expressae. Nunc primum a lacobo Franco in lucem edita. [Paris: for Jean-Baptiste Duval, ca 1619-1630]
The plates in these two works were originally designed by Giacomo Franco an engraver in Venice, and subsequently reworked by Jean-Baptiste Duval in Paris. It is plausible that the border surrounding the manuscript title is by one of these artists; it is a copy of (or the model for?) the title-page to the 1619 Paris edition of Macé Ruette.
Baron Hohendorf was not only the owner of a large library, but he also acquired books and prints on behalf of Prince Eugene of Savoy, in whose army he had served during the War of the Spanish Succession. Much of Hohendorf's library, which he accumulated on his travels around Europe in the service of Prince Eugene, is now in Vienna.
2 works in one volume, 4to (193 x 150 mm). Manuscript title-page with a pen-and-ink decorative border, 54 engraved plates; engraved title-page, 118 engraved plates (in two sequences, 1-50 and 1-68). (Inscription erased from verso of first title.)
binding: Eighteenth-century German red morocco (200 x 158 mm), spine gilt in compartments with the Hohendorf eagle, gilt edges, green and gilt Buntpapier endleaves. (Binding rubbed, slight damage to foot of spine.)
provenance: Georg Wilhelm, Baron von Hohendorf (1670-1719), "From the Hohendorf library", pencil note on flyleaf (item 493 in his 1720 library catalogue is a volume similar to this, but described "en veau") — William Beckford Hamilton Palace sale, part IV, Sotheby's, 27 November 1883, lot 197, Quaritch, £3-7-6 — extract from a sale catalogue pasted to rear flyleaf — Henry J.B. Clements, of Killadoon, Ireland, armorial bookplate, sale, Sotheby's, 5 July 1966, lot 309, A.G. Thomas, £20, sold to — Patricia Milne-Henderson (1935-2018), sale, Sotheby's, 18 July 2016, lot 113. acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale.