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Trésor Volumes on Medals of the Italian Renaissance
Lenormant, Charles, Paul Delaroche and Henriquel Dupont. TRÉSOR DE NUMISMATIQUE ET DE GLYPTIQUE, OU RECUEIL GÉNÉRAL DE MÉDAILLES, MONNAIES, PIERRES GRAVÉES, BAS-RELIEFS, ETC., TANT ANCIENS QUE MODERNES, LES PLUS INTÉRESSANS SOUS LE RAPPORT DE L'ART ET DE L'HISTOIRE, GRAVÉ PAR LES PROCÉDÉS DE M. ACHILLE COLLAS. [Volume VII]: MÉDAILLES ITALIENNES EXÉCUTÉES AUX XVe ET XVIe SIÈCLES. PREMIÈRE PARTIE. A Paris: Didier et Cie., 1858. First edition. (4), 27, (1) pages; 40 exceptionally fine plates produced using the medal ruling machine technique, with tissue guards, depicting medals. [with] [Volume VIII]: MÉDAILLES COULÉES ET CISELÉES EN ITALIE AUX XVe ET XVIe SIÈCLES. DEUXIÈME PARTIE. A Paris: Rittner et Goupil, 1836. First edition. (4), 40, (2) pages; 44 exceptionally fine plates produced using the medal ruling machine technique, with tissue guards, depicting medals. Two volumes. Folio [43.5 by 32 cm], later brown half morocco with ochre cloth sides; spines with five raised bands, lettered in gilt. Pages remarkably free of the foxing and spotting usually seen in these volumes. Bindings spotted and a little musty. Contents nearly fine. The volume devoted to Italian Renaissance medals, from this extraordinary twenty-volume work, the 19th century's outstanding contribution to medallic and glyptic art. The massive, extensively illustrated work has never been approached in concept or scope and, after the better part of two centuries, some sections have yet to be superseded and remain essential sources of information. The volumes were produced beginning in 1834; on the completion of the series in 1858, updated title pages were produced for the remaining unsold copies so they could be sold (as in the first volume here) under a uniform imprint. [Online description truncated: for the full description, see the printed or PDF cataloge.]
Lenormant, Charles, Paul Delaroche and Henriquel Dupont. TRÉSOR DE NUMISMATIQUE ET DE GLYPTIQUE, OU RECUEIL GÉNÉRAL DE MÉDAILLES, MONNAIES, PIERRES GRAVÉES, BAS-RELIEFS, ETC., TANT ANCIENS QUE MODERNES, LES PLUS INTÉRESSANS SOUS LE RAPPORT DE L'ART ET DE L'HISTOIRE, GRAVÉ PAR LES PROCÉDÉS DE M. ACHILLE COLLAS. [Volume VII]: MÉDAILLES ITALIENNES EXÉCUTÉES AUX XVe ET XVIe SIÈCLES. PREMIÈRE PARTIE. A Paris: Didier et Cie., 1858. First edition. (4), 27, (1) pages; 40 exceptionally fine plates produced using the medal ruling machine technique, with tissue guards, depicting medals. [with] [Volume VIII]: MÉDAILLES COULÉES ET CISELÉES EN ITALIE AUX XVe ET XVIe SIÈCLES. DEUXIÈME PARTIE. A Paris: Rittner et Goupil, 1836. First edition. (4), 40, (2) pages; 44 exceptionally fine plates produced using the medal ruling machine technique, with tissue guards, depicting medals. Two volumes. Folio [43.5 by 32 cm], later brown half morocco with ochre cloth sides; spines with five raised bands, lettered in gilt. Pages remarkably free of the foxing and spotting usually seen in these volumes. Bindings spotted and a little musty. Contents nearly fine. The volume devoted to Italian Renaissance medals, from this extraordinary twenty-volume work, the 19th century's outstanding contribution to medallic and glyptic art. The massive, extensively illustrated work has never been approached in concept or scope and, after the better part of two centuries, some sections have yet to be superseded and remain essential sources of information. The volumes were produced beginning in 1834; on the completion of the series in 1858, updated title pages were produced for the remaining unsold copies so they could be sold (as in the first volume here) under a uniform imprint. [Online description truncated: for the full description, see the printed or PDF cataloge.]