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The Best Edition of Spanheim
Spanheim, Ezechiel. DISSERTATIONES DE PR®STANTIA ET USU NUMISMATUM ANTIQUORUM. EDITIO NOVA. IN QUA EDIT® ANTEA DISSERTATIONES RECENSENTUR, MULTISQUE ACCESSIONIBUS LOCUPLETANTUR; ALI® NUNC PRIMUM PRODEUNT; SINGUL® AUTEM SELECTIS INSIGNIUM NUMISMATUM ICONIBUS ILLUSTRANTUR. TOMUS PRIMUS & VOLUMEN ALTERUM. Londini: Impensis Richardi Smith, 1706; Amstelodami: Apud Rodolph, & Gerhard. Wetstenios, 1717. Two volumes. Folio [47 by 29.5 cm], contemporary full brown calf; boards paneled in blind, with decorative central panels; spines with seven raised bands; all page edges speckled red. (40), 726, (36) + (8), xxviii, 656, (52) pages; finely engraved allegorical title in first volume; titles printed in red and black; superbly engraved frontispiece portrait of the author; superbly engraved portrait of George Augustus, Prince of Wales; finely engraved dedication vignette in the second volume; woodcut initials and tailpieces; coin engravings in the text. Bindings very worn, with spines lacking covering and leather torn elsewhere; front board of first volume detached, but present. Good, though with better interiors. A rather worn, but complete, set of the best edition of this landmark work. Born as an unillustrated quarto in 1664, a greatly expanded and illustrated if still rather modest edition in two parts appeared in 1671. Its apotheosis here, in two oversize folio volumes, was most handsomely executed and generally bound in raiment worthy of it. Babelon 105: "Ezechiel Spanheim (b. 1629 1710) was part of that exceptional group of scholars who came together at Rome under the reign of Queen Christina." Bassoli 30: "that great work of Ezechiel Spanheim... represent[s] the seventeenth century Ôpeak' of classical numismatics. Spanheim meticulously (and not without digressions) records every image and inscription shown on ancient coins that could be made out." Hirsch 122. Kress S.2350. Lipsius 376. Ex Thomas Foley of Great Witley Court, Worcester, with his engraved bookplate on the title verso; ex M. Bourne Library.
Estimate: 300 USD
Spanheim, Ezechiel. DISSERTATIONES DE PR®STANTIA ET USU NUMISMATUM ANTIQUORUM. EDITIO NOVA. IN QUA EDIT® ANTEA DISSERTATIONES RECENSENTUR, MULTISQUE ACCESSIONIBUS LOCUPLETANTUR; ALI® NUNC PRIMUM PRODEUNT; SINGUL® AUTEM SELECTIS INSIGNIUM NUMISMATUM ICONIBUS ILLUSTRANTUR. TOMUS PRIMUS & VOLUMEN ALTERUM. Londini: Impensis Richardi Smith, 1706; Amstelodami: Apud Rodolph, & Gerhard. Wetstenios, 1717. Two volumes. Folio [47 by 29.5 cm], contemporary full brown calf; boards paneled in blind, with decorative central panels; spines with seven raised bands; all page edges speckled red. (40), 726, (36) + (8), xxviii, 656, (52) pages; finely engraved allegorical title in first volume; titles printed in red and black; superbly engraved frontispiece portrait of the author; superbly engraved portrait of George Augustus, Prince of Wales; finely engraved dedication vignette in the second volume; woodcut initials and tailpieces; coin engravings in the text. Bindings very worn, with spines lacking covering and leather torn elsewhere; front board of first volume detached, but present. Good, though with better interiors. A rather worn, but complete, set of the best edition of this landmark work. Born as an unillustrated quarto in 1664, a greatly expanded and illustrated if still rather modest edition in two parts appeared in 1671. Its apotheosis here, in two oversize folio volumes, was most handsomely executed and generally bound in raiment worthy of it. Babelon 105: "Ezechiel Spanheim (b. 1629 1710) was part of that exceptional group of scholars who came together at Rome under the reign of Queen Christina." Bassoli 30: "that great work of Ezechiel Spanheim... represent[s] the seventeenth century Ôpeak' of classical numismatics. Spanheim meticulously (and not without digressions) records every image and inscription shown on ancient coins that could be made out." Hirsch 122. Kress S.2350. Lipsius 376. Ex Thomas Foley of Great Witley Court, Worcester, with his engraved bookplate on the title verso; ex M. Bourne Library.
Estimate: 300 USD