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NUMISMATICS

Arabic — Armenian — Antiochus

Hamaker, Hendrik Arent. Specimen catalogi codicum mss. orientalium bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae ... [bound with two other works as described below]. Lugduni Batavorum: Apud S. & J. Luchtmans, 1820. 4to (24.5 cm, 9.7"). [4], viii, 264, [4] pp. [bound with] Chahan de Cirbied, Jacques M. Notice de deux manuscrits Arméniens contenant l'histoire de Mathieu Eretz ... Paris: De l'imprimerie Impériale, 1812. 4to. 92 pp. [and] Tôchon d'Annecy, Joseph-François . Dissertation sur l'époque de la mort d'Antiochus VII évergètes sidétès, roi de Syrie, sur deux médailles antiques de ce prince ... Paris: L.G. Michaud, 1815. 4to. Frontis., 68 pp.
$1250.00

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• First edition of this catalogue of Arabic manuscripts held by the university at Leiden, annotated by Hamaker; the text is printed in Latin and Arabic. That work is followed by one on ancient Armenian manuscripts and another on the last era of Antiochus Sidetes with reference both to numismatic and Biblical sources; these are also in their first editions.

Taxing Minted Silver

New Spain. Viceroy (1813–16, Calleja del Rey). Broadside, begins: Don Félix María Calleja del Rey, ... virey, gobernador y capitan general de esta N.E., ... Recargada mas cada momento la Hacienda pública de multiplicadas é importantes atenciones, y no siendo bastantes á cubrirlas sus ingresos, ni tampoco los productos y rendimientos de los arbitrios hasta ahora adaptados.... Mexico: No publisher/printer, [in text] 13 de Julio de 1813. Folio (44 cm; 17"). [1] p.
$650.00

WorldCat locates only one copy.

• Garritz, Impresos novohispanos, 1702. Not in Medina, Mexico. Folded, otherwise as issued. Clean. (26040)

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Spanheim, Ezechiel. Dissertationes de praestantia et usu numismatum antiquorum. Edition secunda, priori longe auctior, & variorum numismatum. Amstelodami: Apud Danielem Elsevirium, 1671. 4to (20.9 cm, 8.25"). Frontis., [46], 917, [51 (index)] pp.; illus.
$950.00

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• Important treatise on ancient numismatics, written by a prominent scholar, diplomat, and collector who was one of the first to combine genuine interest in coins and medals with antiquarian erudition. This is the second edition, following the first of 1664 but more highly illustrated than that printing; the volume includes numerous in-text copper engravings depicting coins and monuments, at least one of which is signed I. Wyngaerden. The title-page is printed in red and black, with Elzevir's Minerva vignette.

A Tour ofRUSSIA Conducted by a SPECIALIST

Tooke, William. View of the Russian empire, during the reign of Catharine the second, and to the close of the eighteenth century ... the second edition. London: Pr. by A. Strahan & G. Woodfall for T.N. Longman & O. Rees, 1800. 8vo (21.7 cm, 8.5"). 3 vols. I: xxxvi, 630 pp.; 1 fold. map. II: [2], 574 pp. III: [2], 628 pp. (pagination skips 561–64).
$100.00

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DNB

Russia, or, A Compleat Historical Account of All the Nations which Compose that Empire

Life of Catharine II, Empress of Russia

The state of the Russian military forces is here described at length. The commerce section includes chapters on viniculture, sericulture, and apiculture, as well as mining and salt harvesting; at the back of the third volume are extensive tables of Russian imports and exports, merchant ships arrived and sailed, duties and taxes, and names of the most active St. Petersburg merchants. Coins and measures are also examined.

Binding: Contemporary treed calf, flat spines with gilt tooling of several sorts creating compartments, each with a large device; gilt-stamped green leather title and volume labels.

• ESTC T109837; Allibone 2434. On Tooke, see: Dictionary of National Biography online. Bound as above, two volumes with front covers off and all other joints weak; covers showing some gouges and spines some chips, the set apparently having been exposed not only to normal wear/rubbing but sometime long past to something (heat? “repairs”?) that darkened and roughened them irregularly. Ex–social club library: front pastedowns each with 19th-century bookplate and inked numerals, title-pages pressure-stamped. Intermittent light foxing and light to moderate offsetting throughout; vol. III with waterstaining in upper margins. Map lightly foxed but otherwise in excellent condition. A set of booksstill striking, and priced to permit the next owner to contemplate repairs. (26366)

Pirated Pensées

Valois, Adrien de. Valesiana ou les pensées critiques, historiques et morales, et les poesies latines .... Paris: Chez Florentin & Pierre Delaulne, 1695. 12mo (15.5 cm, 6.2"). Frontis., [30], 234, [10], 88 pp.; 2 fold. plts.
$250.00

The collection was edited by the author’s son, numismatist Charles de Valois.

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The present example is a fictitious imprint, printed in Amsterdam and counterfeiting the Parisian edition of the same year (actual place of printing from NUC Pre-1956 628:472, cf. E. Weller, Die falschen und fingierten Druckorte, II, 57). The volume’s two folding, engraved plates (unsigned) depict antiquarian coins and medals, while the mythologically inspired frontispiece includes a portrait of de Valois.

• Later half sheep with speckled paper–covered boards, rebacked with speckled calf preserving original gilt-stamped leather title-label; sides and edges scuffed, with leather chipped at corners. Front pastedown with 19th-century private collector’s bookplate, partially chipped; preface with numeral inked in lower margin. Pages crisp and clean. All edges stained red.

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