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Rare First Edition of Bastien on Flanders, with Actual Photographic Plates
Bastien, Pierre. CATALOGUE DES MONNAIES D'OR FLAMANDES (COLLECTION VERNIER). First edition. Lille: Musée de Lille, Publié par la Société de Numismatique du Nord de la France, (1958). 4to, later tan cloth; red morocco spine label, gilt; original printed front card cover bound in. 57 leaves of duplicated typescript, printed on rectos only; 15 very fine mounted photographic prints of coins. Spine a little rubbed, else fine. The rare first edition, illustrated with actual photographs. This was Bastien's second published numismatic work, preceded only by his Médailles et jetons dans l'histoire de Dunkerque (1955). Pierre Bastien (1912–2010) was the author of many articles and books on coins, most of them on Roman coins of the third and fourth centuries. His works on the issues of the Lyon mint and on Roman numismatic portraiture are especially well known. Clain-Stefanelli 10668. Grierson 133.
Bastien, Pierre. CATALOGUE DES MONNAIES D'OR FLAMANDES (COLLECTION VERNIER). First edition. Lille: Musée de Lille, Publié par la Société de Numismatique du Nord de la France, (1958). 4to, later tan cloth; red morocco spine label, gilt; original printed front card cover bound in. 57 leaves of duplicated typescript, printed on rectos only; 15 very fine mounted photographic prints of coins. Spine a little rubbed, else fine. The rare first edition, illustrated with actual photographs. This was Bastien's second published numismatic work, preceded only by his Médailles et jetons dans l'histoire de Dunkerque (1955). Pierre Bastien (1912–2010) was the author of many articles and books on coins, most of them on Roman coins of the third and fourth centuries. His works on the issues of the Lyon mint and on Roman numismatic portraiture are especially well known. Clain-Stefanelli 10668. Grierson 133.