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Samwer's Scarce 1883 Work on Early Roman Coinage
Samwer, Karl. GESCHICHTE DES ÄLTEREN RÖMISCHEN MÜNZWESENS BIS CIRCA 200 VOR CHRISTI (554 DER STADT). Aus den hinterlassenen Papieren des Geheimeraths Dr. Karl Samwer, herausgegeben von M. Bahrfeldt. Wien: W.H. Kühl, 1883. 8vo, contemporary brown cloth-backed marbled boards. 215, (1) pages; 8 folding tables; folding map; 4 fine plates of coins. Text a little browned; spine somewhat frayed. Very good. Very scarce. One of the first works on which Max Bahrfeldt (not yet von) served as editor; Samwer was his father-in-law, Bahrfeldt having married Elisabeth Mary Charlotte Samwer in 1878. Babelon 199: "K. Samwer published a remarkable history of the primitive coinage of Rome, published the day after his death." Clain-Stefanelli 3813.
Samwer, Karl. GESCHICHTE DES ÄLTEREN RÖMISCHEN MÜNZWESENS BIS CIRCA 200 VOR CHRISTI (554 DER STADT). Aus den hinterlassenen Papieren des Geheimeraths Dr. Karl Samwer, herausgegeben von M. Bahrfeldt. Wien: W.H. Kühl, 1883. 8vo, contemporary brown cloth-backed marbled boards. 215, (1) pages; 8 folding tables; folding map; 4 fine plates of coins. Text a little browned; spine somewhat frayed. Very good. Very scarce. One of the first works on which Max Bahrfeldt (not yet von) served as editor; Samwer was his father-in-law, Bahrfeldt having married Elisabeth Mary Charlotte Samwer in 1878. Babelon 199: "K. Samwer published a remarkable history of the primitive coinage of Rome, published the day after his death." Clain-Stefanelli 3813.