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Jobert, Louis. LA SCIENCE DES MEDAILLES. NOUVELLE EDITION, AVEC DES REMARQUES HISTORIQUES & CRITIQUES. Fourth edition. A Paris: Chez de Bure l'aîné, 1739. Two volumes, complete. 12mo, later brown half morocco; spines with five raised bands, lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; all page edges red. xliv, (2), 464 + (4), 446 pages, (32) pages; finely engraved frontispiece by Ertinger of two collectors seated before a coin cabinet examining coins; titles printed in red and black; finely engraved numismatic headpieces; 12 engraved fold-out plates of coins. First volume with front joint cracked; board holding, but nearly detached. Very good. This edition of Jobert's popular guide to numismatics, the fourth in French, is generally regarded to be the best. Pinkerton, in An Essay on Medals (1808 edition, pages vii–viii), notes in his characteristically blunt manner: "The edition of 1739 is doubtless the very best; but this we owe to the editor (M. le Baron Bimard de la Bastie), and not to the author; and even of this edition the second volume is a mere farrago of useless lumber." Bimard de la Bastie added his own notes and observations at the end of each chapter and, as Cunnally, observes, his preface comprises the "earliest attempt to sketch out a history of coin collection from antiquity to modern times." Babelon page 107: "La science des Médailles, published in Paris in 1692, was very well received and became the collectors' vademecum... Bimard de la Bastie published the final edition on Paris in 1739." Bassoli page 29: "One can speak of the Jesuit priest Louis Jobert (1637–1719), the preacher and author of pleasing if not exemplary books and pamphlets, as a 'homo unius libri.' His Science des Médailles was first published in Paris in 1693 [sic], with a large number of re-issues, and translations into all the principal European languages up until 1779, reflecting the soundness and good sense of this elegant little volume and the interest taken in it. The advice Jobert gives to collectors of classical coins and medals is thorough and varied, and the recommended bibliography and museography are useful. For the first time emphasis is put on the concept and importance of the state of preservation of a coin, rather than just its rarity." Dekesel J33. Hennin 19. Lipsius 202. Modesti 1104.
Jobert, Louis. LA SCIENCE DES MEDAILLES. NOUVELLE EDITION, AVEC DES REMARQUES HISTORIQUES & CRITIQUES. Fourth edition. A Paris: Chez de Bure l'aîné, 1739. Two volumes, complete. 12mo, later brown half morocco; spines with five raised bands, lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; all page edges red. xliv, (2), 464 + (4), 446 pages, (32) pages; finely engraved frontispiece by Ertinger of two collectors seated before a coin cabinet examining coins; titles printed in red and black; finely engraved numismatic headpieces; 12 engraved fold-out plates of coins. First volume with front joint cracked; board holding, but nearly detached. Very good. This edition of Jobert's popular guide to numismatics, the fourth in French, is generally regarded to be the best. Pinkerton, in An Essay on Medals (1808 edition, pages vii–viii), notes in his characteristically blunt manner: "The edition of 1739 is doubtless the very best; but this we owe to the editor (M. le Baron Bimard de la Bastie), and not to the author; and even of this edition the second volume is a mere farrago of useless lumber." Bimard de la Bastie added his own notes and observations at the end of each chapter and, as Cunnally, observes, his preface comprises the "earliest attempt to sketch out a history of coin collection from antiquity to modern times." Babelon page 107: "La science des Médailles, published in Paris in 1692, was very well received and became the collectors' vademecum... Bimard de la Bastie published the final edition on Paris in 1739." Bassoli page 29: "One can speak of the Jesuit priest Louis Jobert (1637–1719), the preacher and author of pleasing if not exemplary books and pamphlets, as a 'homo unius libri.' His Science des Médailles was first published in Paris in 1693 [sic], with a large number of re-issues, and translations into all the principal European languages up until 1779, reflecting the soundness and good sense of this elegant little volume and the interest taken in it. The advice Jobert gives to collectors of classical coins and medals is thorough and varied, and the recommended bibliography and museography are useful. For the first time emphasis is put on the concept and importance of the state of preservation of a coin, rather than just its rarity." Dekesel J33. Hennin 19. Lipsius 202. Modesti 1104.