Early Work on the Coins of Celtic Spain
Saulcy, F. de. ESSAI DE CLASSIFICATION DES MONNAIES AUTONOMES DE L'ESPAGNE. Metz: S. Lamort, 1840. 8vo, later brown quarter calf; spine ruled, lettered and decorated in blind; all page edges marbled. x, (2), 219, (1) pages; 7 lithographic plates of alphabets, 4 of them folding; 1 large folding fine lithographic Carte Numismatique de l'Espagne. Binding worn, with top half of backstrip missing. Very good internally. An important early work on Numismatique Celtibérienne, rarely offered. Clain-Stefanelli 5074. Rada y Delgado: "En esta obra, de carácter analítico, se fija la época en que fueron acuñadas las monedas autónomas de España en sus diferentes agrupaciones." Ex B. Friedlander, with his engraved bookplate.