Kolbe & Fanning
Auction 159 6 Mar 2021
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With a Charming Woodcut Model of the New Coinage
Focard de Chateau, (Benoît-Charles-Étienne). MOYEN DE FAIRE ABONDER LE NUMÉRAIRE DANS LES CAISSES PUBLIQUES, & DE RÉTABLIR SUR LE CHAMP L'INDUSTRIE, EN OCCASIONNANT UN MOUVEMENT DE CIRCULATION UNIVERSELLE DANS LES ESPECES. Paris: Chez Garnery & Volland, (1789). Small 8vo, self-covered. 8 pages; woodcut illustration on first page depicting un Modele du nouveau Coin de la Monnoie de l'État. Removed from previous binding. Good to very good. A rare publication, most interesting for the woodcut illustration on the first page, showing a model design of the new coinage, focusing on the proposed text for the legends. The first we recall seeing.
Focard de Chateau, (Benoît-Charles-Étienne). MOYEN DE FAIRE ABONDER LE NUMÉRAIRE DANS LES CAISSES PUBLIQUES, & DE RÉTABLIR SUR LE CHAMP L'INDUSTRIE, EN OCCASIONNANT UN MOUVEMENT DE CIRCULATION UNIVERSELLE DANS LES ESPECES. Paris: Chez Garnery & Volland, (1789). Small 8vo, self-covered. 8 pages; woodcut illustration on first page depicting un Modele du nouveau Coin de la Monnoie de l'État. Removed from previous binding. Good to very good. A rare publication, most interesting for the woodcut illustration on the first page, showing a model design of the new coinage, focusing on the proposed text for the legends. The first we recall seeing.