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Auction 161  18 Sep 2021
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An Original Set of Hoffmeister on Hesse
Hoffmeister, Jacob Christoph Carl. HISTORISCH-KRITISCHE BESCHREIBUNG ALLER BIS JETZT BEKANNT GEWORDENEN HESSISCHEN MÜNZEN, MEDAILLEN UND MARKEN IN GENEALOGISCH-CHRONOLOGISCHER FOLGE. Erster Band: Leipzig: T.O. Weigel, 1862. Lithographic title dated 1857; (8), 534 pages; 5 lithographic plates. Zweiter Band: Leipzig: T.O. Weigel, 1862. (8), 567, (1), (2) pages; 4 lithographic plates. Dritter und Vierter Bände: Hannover: Verlag von Carl Meyer, 1880 zweite Auflage. xxiv, 201, (1), (202)–456 pages. Four volumes, complete, bound in three as usual. 4to, contemporary matching blue quarter calf with mottled sides; spines lettered in gilt; all page edges marbled. Bindings very worn and taped; foxing to plates; contents still very good. The very rare original edition of this great classic work, and worth rebinding. This 1862–1880 Zweite Auflage, including a revised third/fourth volume, is more frequently encountered than the 1857–1866 first printings. Clain-Stefanelli 9381*. Grierson 150.
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