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Vaillant, Jean Foy. SELECTIORA NUMISMATA IN ÆRE MAXIMI MODULI E MUSEO ILLUSTRISSIMI D.D. FRANCISCI DE CAMPS ABBATIS S. MARCELLI, & B. MARIÆ DE SINIACO, CONCISIS INTERPRETATIONIBUS PER D. VAILLANT D.M. & CENOMANENSIUM DUCIS ANTIQUARIUM, ILLUSTRATA. Parisiis (Amsterdam): Apud Antonium Dezallier, 1695. Second edition. 8vo, later plain brown cloth and boards. Finely engraved historiated frontispiece by Jan Van Vianen; (6), 132, (14) pages; title printed in red and black with a woodcut vignette; 59 engraved plates of ancient Roman coins. Crudely bound, contents well worn; numerous annotations; most of the coin illustrations carefully cut out and all put back in place but crudely backed with newspaper clippings or other scraps of paper (see comments). Good. A manuscript note in pencil on the front flyleaf states that this volume was once in the library of Rob(ert) Morris. Born near Boston in 1818 and prominent in Masonic affairs, Morris was arguably the first to actively promote the collecting of ancient coins in this country. The engravings from the Vaillant volume offered here may have been used by Morris to illustrate his various works and brochures issued in the 1870s under the aegis of the American Association of Numismatists. The volume itself is a handsome production, cataloguing the larger pieces in the ancient coin collection formed by the Abbé François de Camps (1643–1723). Babelon 99. Dekesel F59. Hirsch 132. Lipsius 409. Ex Kolbe Sale 51, lot 255.