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Rare Work on Armenian Coins
Corsini, Eduard. DE MINNISARI ALIORUMQUE ARMENIAE REGUM NUMMIS ET ARSACIDARUM EPOCHA DISSERTATIO. Liburni: Typis Antonii Santini & Sociorum, 1754. First edition. 4to [24 by 18 cm], contemporary tan calf-backed marbled boards; spine with four raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt; silk marker; marbled endpapers. viii, 72 pages; title printed in red and black with a delightful coin engraving at the base; woodcut decorations. Spine a bit worn, but sound and still attractive; page edges spotted. Very good or better. Rare. An early work on Armenian coins by Corsini, a scholar at the Scuole Pie, founded at Rome early in the 17th century. A controversial work, it was attacked the same year by Eckhel's teacher, the Jesuit Erasmus Froelich, and a reply by Corsini was published in 1757. Brunet 29768. Dekesel C336. Hirsch 28. Lipsius 90 (incorrectly listing the first edition as 1744). Ex Kolbe Sale 94, lot 1012.
Corsini, Eduard. DE MINNISARI ALIORUMQUE ARMENIAE REGUM NUMMIS ET ARSACIDARUM EPOCHA DISSERTATIO. Liburni: Typis Antonii Santini & Sociorum, 1754. First edition. 4to [24 by 18 cm], contemporary tan calf-backed marbled boards; spine with four raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt; silk marker; marbled endpapers. viii, 72 pages; title printed in red and black with a delightful coin engraving at the base; woodcut decorations. Spine a bit worn, but sound and still attractive; page edges spotted. Very good or better. Rare. An early work on Armenian coins by Corsini, a scholar at the Scuole Pie, founded at Rome early in the 17th century. A controversial work, it was attacked the same year by Eckhel's teacher, the Jesuit Erasmus Froelich, and a reply by Corsini was published in 1757. Brunet 29768. Dekesel C336. Hirsch 28. Lipsius 90 (incorrectly listing the first edition as 1744). Ex Kolbe Sale 94, lot 1012.