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Vaillant's 1703 Nummi Antiqui Familiarum Romanarum
Vaillant, J. NUMMI ANTIQUI FAMILIARUM ROMANARUM PERPETUIS INTERPRETATIONIBUS ILLUSTRATI. Amstelædami: Apud G. Gallet, 1703. First edition. Three volumes. Folio [32 by 21 cm], 18th-century matching brown speckled calf; armorial devices impressed in gilt on all sides; spines with six raised bands, richly decorated in gilt; morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; board edges decorated in gilt; marbled page edges. (22), 536 + 576, (48) pages; finely engraved frontispiece by J. Mulder after J. Goeree; printed titles in red and black with a fine oval engraving; finely engraved dedication and other headpieces; 152 handsomely engraved plates of coins, most depicting the obverse and reverse of twelve coins, also by Mulder and Goeree. Bindings worn, especially at joints, which are cracked while remaining sound. Very good. Among the scarcest of Vaillant's major works. The plates are particularly attractive. Jean Foy Vaillant is considered to be the outstanding numismatic scholar of the late 17th and early 18th century, not only in France but throughout Europe. He traveled widely in search of unpublished ancient coins and medals for the royal numismatic collection under Colbert to Italy (no fewer than twelve times), Greece, Holland, England and, later in life, to Egypt and Persia. Babelon 99. Brunet 29805. Dekesel F164. Lipsius 410. Ex Patricia Milne-Henderson Library.
Vaillant, J. NUMMI ANTIQUI FAMILIARUM ROMANARUM PERPETUIS INTERPRETATIONIBUS ILLUSTRATI. Amstelædami: Apud G. Gallet, 1703. First edition. Three volumes. Folio [32 by 21 cm], 18th-century matching brown speckled calf; armorial devices impressed in gilt on all sides; spines with six raised bands, richly decorated in gilt; morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; board edges decorated in gilt; marbled page edges. (22), 536 + 576, (48) pages; finely engraved frontispiece by J. Mulder after J. Goeree; printed titles in red and black with a fine oval engraving; finely engraved dedication and other headpieces; 152 handsomely engraved plates of coins, most depicting the obverse and reverse of twelve coins, also by Mulder and Goeree. Bindings worn, especially at joints, which are cracked while remaining sound. Very good. Among the scarcest of Vaillant's major works. The plates are particularly attractive. Jean Foy Vaillant is considered to be the outstanding numismatic scholar of the late 17th and early 18th century, not only in France but throughout Europe. He traveled widely in search of unpublished ancient coins and medals for the royal numismatic collection under Colbert to Italy (no fewer than twelve times), Greece, Holland, England and, later in life, to Egypt and Persia. Babelon 99. Brunet 29805. Dekesel F164. Lipsius 410. Ex Patricia Milne-Henderson Library.