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Spanheim, Ezechiel. DISSERTATIONES DE PRAESTANTIA ET USU NUMISMATUM ANTIQUORUM. EDITIO SECUNDA, PRIORI LONGE AUCTIOR, & VARIORUM NUMISMATUM ICONIBUS ILLUSTRATA. Amstelodami: Apud Danielem Elsevirium, 1671. Two parts in one volume. Small 4to [25 by 19.5 cm], contemporary full brown speckled calf; spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt; board edges decorated in gilt; page edges speckled red. Finely engraved portrait of the author by Nicolaus Heinsius; (46), 917, (51) pages; title printed in red and black; woodcut headpieces, tailpieces and initials; engravings of coins throughout the text. Spine head split; binding with moderate wear, but sound and attractive; near fine. The first illustrated edition of this important work. Babelon, page 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 'peak' of classical numismatics. Spanheim meticulously (and not without digressions) records every image and inscription shown on ancient coins that could be made out." Banduri 79. Dekesel S182. Hirsch 122. Kress S.1364: "Approximately half the material in this ed. is new." Labbé (1675) 85. Lipsius 376. Struvius 22.