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An Original Set of Loubat
Loubat, J.F. THE MEDALLIC HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 1776–1876. VOLUME I: TEXT. VOLUME II: PLATES. New York: Published by the Author, 1878 [plates] and 1880 [text]. Two volumes. Folio, original matching orange cloth, gilt. lxix, (1), 478, 8; xvi pages; titles printed in red and black; 170 finely engraved etchings of medals by Jules Jacquemart on 86 plates with tissue guards. Covers only lightly stained; text volume's spine cloth torn near tail. Interiors fine. An original set of perhaps the most lavishly executed work on American numismatics ever published. The author relates in the introductory text "that Mr. Jefferson, as early as 1789, entertained the idea of publishing an account of all American medals, struck up to that time," but it remained for Loubat to publish the first extensive work on the topic. In 1908, the American Journal of Numismatics noted: "His sumptuous work on the Official Medals struck by the authority of the United States marked an epoch in our medallic history." The text volume here present is the scarcer 1880 printing, which seems only to affect the title page. Clain-Stefanelli 15073*. Davis 631.
Loubat, J.F. THE MEDALLIC HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 1776–1876. VOLUME I: TEXT. VOLUME II: PLATES. New York: Published by the Author, 1878 [plates] and 1880 [text]. Two volumes. Folio, original matching orange cloth, gilt. lxix, (1), 478, 8; xvi pages; titles printed in red and black; 170 finely engraved etchings of medals by Jules Jacquemart on 86 plates with tissue guards. Covers only lightly stained; text volume's spine cloth torn near tail. Interiors fine. An original set of perhaps the most lavishly executed work on American numismatics ever published. The author relates in the introductory text "that Mr. Jefferson, as early as 1789, entertained the idea of publishing an account of all American medals, struck up to that time," but it remained for Loubat to publish the first extensive work on the topic. In 1908, the American Journal of Numismatics noted: "His sumptuous work on the Official Medals struck by the authority of the United States marked an epoch in our medallic history." The text volume here present is the scarcer 1880 printing, which seems only to affect the title page. Clain-Stefanelli 15073*. Davis 631.