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NUMISMATICS
On Government & on Old Gold Coinage 
Cantos
Benítez, Pedro de. Escrutinio de
maravedises, y monedas de oro antiguas, su valor, reduccion, y cambio a las monedas
corrientes. Deducido de escrituras, leyes, y pragmaticas antiguas, y modernas
de España. Madrid: Antonio Marin, 1763. 4to (21.5 cm; 8.5"). 123, 171 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • Graesse, Trésor de livres rares, II, 39; Palau 42732. Contemporary vellum over paste boards, lacking the ties, with some vellum lost; old ownership stamp eradicated from title-page. A bit of old spotting/staining; generally, though, a good clean volume. (28583)
Gallery of
Illustrious Ancients for Rome's Elite Faber, Johann. In imagines illustrium ex Fulvii Ursini bibliotheca, Antverpiae à Theodoro Gallaeo expressas, commentarius. Antwerp: Ex officina Plantiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum [i.e., Plantin-Moretus], 1606. 4to (20.5 cm, 8"). Engraved title, 151 plates, [3] ff., 17 plates, [4] ff., 88 pp., [3] ff.
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actual coins, marbles, and gems in antiquarian collections at Rome owned mostly by the late Fulvio Orsini, with commentary by Johann Faber (Giovanni Faber, 1574–1629), who had taken up the work after Kaspar Schopp (1576–1649), the intended author, gave up the project following the death of his patron, Orsini, in 1600. Galle, the engraver, was married to the daughter of Jan Moretus and Maertine Plantin, whose house printed the book (Maertine was Christopher Plantin's daughter); Faber was a German who studied medicine at Rome, was appointed director of the pope's botanical gardens, and befriended many of Rome's elite, including the Cardinal Cinzio Aldobrandini to whom the text here is dedicated.
168 fine engravings of illustrious ancients including kings, queens, politicians, poets, playwrights, philosophers, medical doctors, and historians, pictured as individuals with a handful as couples. Each portrait is accompanied by Faber's note about the original object on which it was found, sometimes with biographical details about the subject. Two indices sort the portraits by name and by profession.
The text is Latin with a few instances of Greek, printed in roman and italic.
• On Faber, see: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani online. Early brown calf, rebacked and refurbished incorporating the original leather on the boards, board extremities rubbed; spine with raised bands and red morocco spine label; red speckled edges, dust-soiled. Light fraying and some soiling to edges of engraved title-page; elsewhere light dust-soiling, instances of spotting or soiling, a few pages with one edge bumped, one corner torn away just at tip. Overall, in very attractive shape. (30019)
Arabic — Armenian — Antiochus Hamaker, Hendrik Arent. Specimen catalogi codicum mss. orientalium bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae ... [bound with two other works as described below]. Lugduni Batavorum: Apud S. & J. Luchtmans, 1820. 4to (24.5 cm, 9.7"). [4], viii, 264, [4] pp. [bound with] Chahan de Cirbied, Jacques M. Notice de deux manuscrits Arméniens contenant l'histoire de Mathieu Eretz ... Paris: De l'imprimerie Impériale, 1812. 4to. 92 pp. [and] Tôchon
d'Annecy, Joseph-François . Dissertation sur l'époque de la mort d'Antiochus VII évergètes sidétès, roi de Syrie, sur deux médailles antiques de ce prince ... Paris: L.G. Michaud, 1815. 4to. Frontis., 68 pp.
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“The
Influence ofthe
Precious Metals on the
Industry of Mankind”
Jacob, William. An historical inquiry into the production and consumption of the precious metals. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832. 8vo (24.9 cm, 9.8"). xii, [9]–427, [27 (adv.)] pp.
“Relates in part to American mines” (Sabin).
Click the images for enlargements. • American Imprints 13113; Allibone 948; Goldsmiths'-Kress 27325.5; NSTC 2J1391; Sabin 35492. Publisher's quarter brown cloth and plain tan paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label; edges and extremities rubbed, corners bumped, sides and spine with spots of discoloration, spine label darkened and chipped. Ex–social club library: paper shelving label on spine head, 19th-century bookplate, call number on endpaper, pressure-stamp on title-page, no other markings. Scattered light spots, pages otherwise generally clean, with edges untrimmed. (27685)
Precious New Year's Gift in a Flattering
EMBROIDERED Binding (Luxury Almanac). Etrennes mignonnes pour l'an de n. seigneur MDCCLXXV. Liege: Chez J. Dessain, [1774]. 12mo (9.6 cm, 3.8"). [52] ff.
Click the images for enlargements. Binding: Splendid
18th-century embroidered binding of gold wire and silver and colored threads over white silk, each cover featuring one pink flower with a long green stem and leaves at its center. Raised wide swirls of silver with touches of gold surround this in relief, the whole cartouche being set on a background of densely laid-on metallic (silver?) threads semé in gold; a thin gold border edges the covers, with spine sewn in a relatively simple pattern of leaves and crossbars. Boards cut flush with text block, text of calendar section interleaved with blanks for memoranda. All edges gilt.
Contained in this little book, surrounded on each page by a simple woodcut border, are the birthdays of European royals, including newborns; woodcut illustrations of moon cycles and numismata; tables of international currency values, tariffs, and taxes; names of government officials in Liege; a town calendar of events, meetings, and saints' days; and anadvertisement for the publisher, who sold the present almanac in various bindings and other such “cute New Year's Gifts,” including Paris almanacs, at his local shop.
This was the fanciest binding style offered chez Dessain, according to his ad!
Provenance: Ex musaeo Hans Furstenberg (gilt-stamped russet leather bookplate, front pastedown), the famous collector of 18th-century French books.
WorldCat finds similar little almanacs from the same period, butnot this.
• Binding as above; worn at edges, longest stitches across spine loosening, silver thread tarnished as virtually always and colored threads fading. Minor offsetting from bookplate onto title-page, else in good condition. Housed in a 19th-century marbled paper–covered slipcase. (30397)
Taxing Minted Silver New Spain. Viceroy (1813–16, Calleja del Rey). Broadside, begins: Don Félix María Calleja del Rey, ... virey, gobernador y capitan general de esta N.E., ... Recargada mas cada momento la Hacienda pública de multiplicadas é importantes atenciones, y no siendo bastantes á cubrirlas sus ingresos, ni tampoco los productos y rendimientos de los arbitrios hasta ahora adaptados.... Mexico: No publisher/printer, [in text] 13 de Julio de 1813. Folio (44 cm; 17"). [1] p.
• The viceroy imposes a 1% tax on minted silver, whether for export or internal circulation in New Spain. The tax is destined to defray convoy and other transportation costs.
WorldCat locates only one copy.
• Garritz, Impresos novohispanos, 1702. Not in Medina, Mexico. Folded, otherwise as issued. Clean. (26040)
Improved
Edition of
SPANHEIM's
Most Celebrated WorkNow,
with More Illustrations!
Spanheim,
Ezechiel. Dissertationes
de praestantia et usu numismatum antiquorum. Edition secunda, priori longe auctior,
& variorum numismatum. Amstelodami: Apud Danielem Elsevirium, 1671. 4to
(20.9 cm, 8.25"). Frontis., [46], 917, [51 (index)] pp.; illus.
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One of the FirstEnglish Histories IN English Speed, John. The historie of Great Britaine under the conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. Their originals, manners, habits, warres, coines, and seales: with the successions, lives, acts, and issues of the English monarchs from Iulius Caesar, unto the raigne of King Iames, of famous memorie. London: Pr. by John Dawson [and Thomas Cotes] for George Humble, 1632. Folio (33.5 cm, 13.25"). [10] ff., 1042 pp.; 1043–1086 ff., 1087–1237, [85 (index)] pp. (lacking frontis.); illus.
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An epitome of the “antiquarian” both in form and content, this is a marvelous compendium of royal history and lore.
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