Paul-Francis Jacquier Numismatique Antique
Auction 48 18-19 Sep 2020
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Haym, Nicholas Francis. Del Tesoro Britannico. Parte Prima. Overo il Museo Nummario. Ove si contengono le Medaglie Greche e Latine in ogni metallo e forma, non prima pubblicate. London 1719, 1720. 2 volumes: Primo, engraved frontispiece, title, 291 pages (Italian) engravings in text, plus 157 pages (English) further select coins and medals; contemporary ink margin-references to plates in vol. 2. Secondo, 289 pages (Italian), 27 engraved plates, plus An Abridgement of the Second Volume, 86 pages (English). 4to (24x29cm), contemporary mottled calf, marbled end papers, spine with raised bands and tooling, coloured labels with gilt letters. Fine. Lipsius 178
A note from BCD: It is not often that a 300-year-old book is in such attractive condition that it becomes a real pleasure to go through it, page by page, and mentally return to the days when Greek coins were still a wonderful mystery, for both the masses and the "dilettanti". Matching some of the charming engravings to coins with changed attributions could be a test for the reader's depth of knowledge.
Haym, Nicholas Francis. Del Tesoro Britannico. Parte Prima. Overo il Museo Nummario. Ove si contengono le Medaglie Greche e Latine in ogni metallo e forma, non prima pubblicate. London 1719, 1720. 2 volumes: Primo, engraved frontispiece, title, 291 pages (Italian) engravings in text, plus 157 pages (English) further select coins and medals; contemporary ink margin-references to plates in vol. 2. Secondo, 289 pages (Italian), 27 engraved plates, plus An Abridgement of the Second Volume, 86 pages (English). 4to (24x29cm), contemporary mottled calf, marbled end papers, spine with raised bands and tooling, coloured labels with gilt letters. Fine. Lipsius 178
A note from BCD: It is not often that a 300-year-old book is in such attractive condition that it becomes a real pleasure to go through it, page by page, and mentally return to the days when Greek coins were still a wonderful mystery, for both the masses and the "dilettanti". Matching some of the charming engravings to coins with changed attributions could be a test for the reader's depth of knowledge.