Watch List notes:

*France, Jean Baptiste Duval, Royal Interpreter of oriental languages (died 1632), uniface lead medal, dated 1630, draped and cuirassed bust right; io baptista dv val ling orient interpres reg, 55mm, very fine early cast Duval's manuscript Arabic-Latin dictionary compiled in Venice in 1610 is in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, and was published as the Dictionarium Latino Arabicum Davidis Regis by Antoine Vitray, the king's official printer of oriental languages. (£150 - 200)