2 numismatic works in one volume: Romanorum Imperatorum Pinacotheca (1737); Imperatorum Romanorum A Julio Caesare ad Heraclium Usque, Numismata Aurea (1738)
Amsterdam: Martin Schagen, 1737-1738. Hardcover. Small quarto (10 x 7.5 inches), bound in modern patterned paper-covered boards, green cloth spine, preserving the remains of the original 18th century spine label, contents very good, light tanning and occasional light wear and some gentle diagonal creases to upper corner of first third of book; preliminary pages have faint tidemark from old dampstain to fore-edge margin. 2 copperplate title-pages, engraved portrait, engraved frontispiece, 88 plates. Later enlarged edition, first published in Antwerp in 1615 and 1627, and later in Berlin in 1705, and including 12 equestrian portraits of the Caesars engraved by C. de passe after Johannes Stradanus. The remaining 76 copper-engraved plates depict a total of 912 coin impressions. The binding is nice enough but clearly the work of an amateur. Good. Item #H21444
Price: $400.00