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Beautifully Bound Original CNI on Venice
Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy. CORPUS NUMMORUM ITALICORUM. PRIMO TENTATIVO DI UN CATALOGO GENERALE DELLE MONETE MEDIEVALE E MODERNE CONIATE IN ITALIA O DA ITALIANI IN ALTRI PAESI. VOLUME VII: VENETO (VENEZIA–PARTE I–DALLE ORIGINI A MARINO GRIMANI). Roma: Tipografia della R. Accademia dei Lincei, 1915. Folio, original full black polished calf, gilt; gilt inner dentelles; marbled endpapers; top page edges gilt. (8), 583, (1) pages; 20 fine plates of coins. Fine. A beautiful copy of the seventh volume of this massive work, which in its entirety comprises the most extensive and comprehensive work ever written on the coinage of a single country. Original volumes are rarely offered. Clain-Stefanelli 10186*: "A basic reference on the Italian coinage from the Middle Ages up to 1900." Grierson 160: "Un immense ouvrage descriptif, bâti autour de la collection du roi Victor Emmanuel."
Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy. CORPUS NUMMORUM ITALICORUM. PRIMO TENTATIVO DI UN CATALOGO GENERALE DELLE MONETE MEDIEVALE E MODERNE CONIATE IN ITALIA O DA ITALIANI IN ALTRI PAESI. VOLUME VII: VENETO (VENEZIA–PARTE I–DALLE ORIGINI A MARINO GRIMANI). Roma: Tipografia della R. Accademia dei Lincei, 1915. Folio, original full black polished calf, gilt; gilt inner dentelles; marbled endpapers; top page edges gilt. (8), 583, (1) pages; 20 fine plates of coins. Fine. A beautiful copy of the seventh volume of this massive work, which in its entirety comprises the most extensive and comprehensive work ever written on the coinage of a single country. Original volumes are rarely offered. Clain-Stefanelli 10186*: "A basic reference on the Italian coinage from the Middle Ages up to 1900." Grierson 160: "Un immense ouvrage descriptif, bâti autour de la collection du roi Victor Emmanuel."