BOTERO, Giovanni.

Aggiunte fatte ... alla sua ragion di stato ove si tratta dell’... con una relatione del mare.Including:2 [part 1]) Dell’eccellenze de gli antichi capitani libri due. ...3 [part 4]) Dell’agilita della forze del prencipe libri due. ...4 [part 3]) Della riputatione del prencipe libri due. ...5 [part 2]) Discorso della neutralita [del prencipe] ...6 [part 5]) Discroso[!] intorno alla fortificatione ...7 [part 6]) Relationi del mare ...Rome, Giorgio Ferrari, 1598. A preliminary part and 6 text parts in one volume. 4to. With a general title-page and 6 part-titles. Set in an italic type (cut by Robert Granjon) with incidental roman. Sheepskin parchment (ca. 1700?).

[22], [2 blank]; 72; 46, [2 blank]; 31, [1 blank]; 15, [1 blank]; 14, [2 blank]; 31, [1 blank] pp.First edition of the first modern treatise on oceanography, by Giovanni Botero (1543/44-1617), along with the first editions of the same author’s extensive additions to and expansions of his great 1589 treatise on political philosophy, Della ragion di stato libri dieci, which forcefully argues against the amoral view in Machiavelli’s 1532 Il princepe (The prince). Parts 2-4, for example, discuss the qualities that a ruler needs, with 31 pages devoted to the importance of reputation, which he had covered in half a page in 1589. His arguments that a ruler without morals cannot maintain a stable state certainly remain relevant today! Part 1 discusses great rulers of classical antiquity and part 5 discusses fortification. Botero wrote while employed by Cardinal Federico Borromeo, Archbishop of Milan, his moral views were closely tied to his religious beliefs as a Catholic, Jesuit and admirer of Thomas Acquinas, and his ideas supported the Counter-Reformation, but his publications were widely read in many languages and appear to have had a mostly unacknowledged influence on a broad spectrum of writers, including Walter Raleigh, Tommaso Campanella, Thomas Hobbes, Edward Misselden, Montesquieu, Christopher Polhem and Veit Ludwig van Seckendorff.The treatise on oceanography is wholly new here and also ahead of its time. In nine chapters it covers the relative proportions of sea and land; the depth of the sea; the reasons why seas do not rise, even though rivers flow into them; physical qualities, including salinity and colour; dynamic aspects, including waves, tides and currents (3 chapters) and the geographical divisions into seas and oceans.The seven parts of this work were clearly designed to be issued together (the general title-page lists each of the 6 text parts and is followed by an index to each part in the same order), though each has its own series of page numbers and quire signatures. The parts are not numbered, but the preliminaries of the text parts are dated, giving nearly the same order as the title-page and indexes from 1 February to 5 March 1598. An English translation of the 1589 Ragion di stato recently appeared in the series Cambridge texts in the history of political thought, which notes its great importance and that in spite of its enormous influence it remains little known among today’s scholars. The present additions have also been unjustly overlooked. With a contemporary(?) owner’s name on the title-page, difficult to make out, a few contemporary manuscript notes in the fore-edge margin (some slightly shaved: although the endpapers may be contemporary.The second and fourth text parts (following the order on the title-page) are here interchanged. With a tear along the gutter fold at the foot of the general title-page, mostly marginal water stains and about 4 sheets slightly browned, but otherwise in good condition and complete with all three blank leaves. An unjustly overlooked work by a political philosopher who was ahead of his time, including the first modern treatise on oceanography.l ICCU CNCE 7296; USTC 816583; cf. Cipolla, Guns and sails in the early phase of European expansion 1400-1700, p. 166 (1659 Venice ed.); for Botero and his work: Botero (Benedittini & Descendre, eds.), Della ragion di stato (2016); Botero (Robert Bireley ed.), The reason of state (2017); Peter Burke, “Tacitism, sceptisism, and reason of state”, in: Cambridge history of political thought 1450-1700, pp. 479-499; Reinert & Carpenter, German language economic best sellers ...: also introducing Giovanni Botero ...”, in: Rössner, Economic growth and the origins of modern political economy (2016).

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BOUCHÉ, Peter Friedrich.

Naturgeschichte der Insekten, besonders in Hinsicht ihrer ersten Zustände als Larven und Puppen. ... Erste Lieferung.Berlin, in der Nicolaischen Buchhandlung, 1834. 8vo. With 10 lithographed plates. Contemporary mottled sheepskin, richly gold-tooled spine.

[8], 216.First edition of a study on larvae and pupae by the German entomologist and botanist Peter Friedrich Bouché (1784-1856), who was the institutional gardener at the Botanical Garden at Schöneberg. It includes many different insects, describing the appearance of their larvae and pupae and the process of their metamorphoses, also depicted on the lithographed plates. The title-page mentions this work to be the first instalment, but no subsequent instalments were published. From the entomological library of Jacques d'Aguilar, author of Histoire de l'entomologie (2006). Somewhat browned, not affecting the plates, otherwise in good condition. Binding very good.l Hagen I, p. 77; Horn & Schenkling 2093.

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BOUCHER, François.

Receuil de fontaines inventées par ...With: Second livre de fontaines inventées par ...Paris, Gabriel Huquier, [1736]. 2 parts in 1 volume. Royal 4to (32 x 24 cm). With 2 series of 7 finely etched and engraved plates of water fountains, including 2 title-prints, the first series with only the names of the artist François Boucher and publisher Gabriel Huquier, the second also with the name of its engraver Pierre(-Alexandre?) Aveline. 19th-century gold-tooled dark mottled sheepskin, gilt edges.

7, 7 engraved ll.Two rare print series (part 2 especially rare) showing beautiful, rich and decorative designs for fountains by François Boucher (1703-1770), famous French painter and decorative draughtsman, professor and later director of the Paris Academy, inspector of the Gobelin manufacture at Paris, and "premier peintre du Roi". The present two series show some of his best work, richly decorative forms in an early rococo style, incorporating (mostly wingless) putti, naked water nymphs (naiads), merfolk, a satyr, Neptune in his seahorse-drawn chariot, other water gods and godesses, shells, dolphins, sea monsters, a swan and other animals. Some were actually built: the Neptune print may have inspired Barthélemy Guibal's 1750 Fontaine de Neptune at the Place Royale in Nancy. Extra inserted: 18th century engraved copy of plate 6 of the first series, showing a rich design with two Tritons blowing shell trumpets, unsigned.From the Library of Jean Fürstenberg (1890-1982), co-founder of the Association Internationale de Bibliophilie, with his book-label. The last print is slightly worn at a former fold and about half show small marginal holes or marginal restorations, none approaching the plate edge and otherwise in very good condition and with large margins.l Berlin Kat. 3581; J. Fürstenberg, La gravure originale dans l'ill. du livres Franç. = Die Original-Graphik in der französ. Buchillustr., 1975, no. 63 (this copy); KVK & WorldCat (5 copies part 1 ,1(?) copy of part 2); P. Jean-Richard, L'oeuvre gravé de F. Boucher, 1978, 1090-1097 & 216-222.

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BOUDARD, Jean-Baptiste.

Iconologie tirée de divers auteurs. Ouvrage utile aux gens de lettres, aux pöetes, aux artistes, & généralement à tous les amateurs des beaux-arts.Vienna, Johan Thomas von Trattner, 1766.3 volumes. 8vo. With Trattner’s engraved device on the 3 title-pages. Contemporary half calf.

[16], 203, [8]; [2], 219, [8]; [2], 208, [12] pp.The second edition of an interesting iconographical dictionary by the French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Boudard (1710-1768) who spent most of his active life in Italy, from 1749 to his death in 1678 at the Bourbon court in Parma. The first edition, with parallel texts in French and an Italian translation by his friend Abate Giuseppe Pezzana, was published in Parma in 1759. The terms iconology, used by Boudard, and iconography have both been used from at least the 17th century, but most authors do not distinguish the two. After an important introduction on iconography in general, follow the 630 emblems, arranged alphabetically and based on the most influential iconographical work of the 17th century, Cesare Ripa’s Iconologica. Boudard found Ripa's work so indispensable for his classes at the local Academy of Fine Arts that he published this "digest", picturing allegorical emblems of virtues, vices, emotions, arts, sciences, including series of mythological subjects, the continents, the seasons, the senses, the works of mercy, the Beatitudes etc. The present copy includes A6, the leaf containing emblems 11 and 12: "Adulation" and "Adultere", sometimes lacking (perhaps the adultery emblem was considered inappropriate for some audiences).With the owner’s inscription of Julie Lang, a round owner’s stamp with the initials "B.K." on the first free endleaf of each volume and the handwritten inscription, "Erhalten im Jahre 1822 …" on the first free end-leaf in vol. 1. In very good condition. The binding shows some very slight signs of wear, mostly around the corners.l Praz, p. 28; Thieme-Becker, 4, p. 436; Vinet, 876.

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BOUGARD, René and John Thomas SERRES.

The little sea torch: or, true guide for coasting pilots.London, J. Debrett for the "author" [Serres], G. & W. Nicol, et al. [printed by T. Rickaby], 1801. Large folio (47 x 30 cm). With 20 numbered aquatint plates containing 137 coastal profiles, and 12 partly numbered engraved plates containing 24 maps of port cities, harbours, islands and the Strait of Gibraltar. All coastal profiles and maps beautifully and subtly coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary boards.

VI, 144, [5] pp.First English edition, with aquatint profiles, of Bougard's Le Petit Flambeau de la Mer, a marine pilot guide to coastal navigation originally published in 1684 and extensively revised for the present edition by Serres. The coastal profiles cover the British Isles, Spain, Portugal, Italy and France, and the islands included among the maps include Corsica, Malta and Corfu. The coastal profiles show many spectacular cliffs and rock formations, numerous light-houses (an important source for their history), fortresses and occasionally other buildings, as well as ships and smaller boats, a large view of the whole city of La Valette on Malta, and even three smoking volcanoes (Vesuvius, Stromboli and Etna). The text includes information on the Barbary Coast, and islands and coasts en route to the East Indies. This is the first major revision to the maps and views of the Petit Flambeau, which saw only minor changes of content from 1684 to 1716 and no more in the editions (to 1789) before the present.With a contemporary owner's signature on the title-page (Peter Rye) and the lovely armorial bookplate of the Philadelphia publisher and bibliophile Moncure Biddle (1882-ca. 1952). Spine subtly restored, but otherwise fine and wholy untrimmed.l Abbey, England 344; Cat. NHSM, p. 218; Pastoureau, Bougard N (5 copies); Phillips & LeGear 2852.

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[BOUHOURS, Dominique].

Les entretiens d'Ariste et d'Eugene. Dernière edition. ... Sur la copie imprimée à Paris.Amsterdam, "Jaques le Jeune" [= Daniel Elzevier], 1671. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece, woodcut publisher's device (armillary sphere) on title-page and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Polished gold-tooled red goatskin morocco (ca. 1840?), each board in a panel design. A pencil note on an endleaf attributes the binding to "Muller" on grounds unknown to us, but he was active from 1834, which accords well with the date of the present binding.

[8], 438, [9], [1 blank] pp.First Netherlands edition, in the same year as the first Paris edition but including revisions from the second Paris edition, of a self-consciously elegant work with six conversations between two friends, presented as models of eloquence by the distinguished French Jesuit priest, essayist and neo-classical critic Dominique Bouhours (1628-1702). It gives a good picture of salon society in 17th-century Paris, which served as a model for much of the world. The upper class literary public received it very favourably, praising the delicacy and purity of the author's style. With owner's inscription on an endleaf. With a small marginal ink stain on the title-page and a few corners showing old folds, but still in very good condition. Hinges professionally restored and binding otherwise very good. Attractively bound Elzevier edition of a literary work with six conversations demonstrating the art of eloquence.l Adams, Rawles & Saunders F123; Berghman 1346; Landwehr, Emblem and fable books 226; Willems 1440.

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BOUHOURS, Dominique.

Vie de S. François Xavier, Apotre des Indes et du Japon. Edition de la Société Catholique de la Belgique.Leuven, Vanlinthout and Vandenzande, 1822. 8vo. Contemporary vellum.

559, [1 blank] pp.Belgian edition of the very popular "Life of François Xavier" by Dominique Bouhours, (1628-1702), a French Jesuit and a famous literary author at the time of Louis XIV. Xavier's life is especially interesting for his travels and work as a missionary in Japan and elsewhere in the Far East. The present life was first published in 1682 and remained popular for almost two centuries. Slightly foxed and some old ink annotations on first endpapers. Good copy.l Alt-Japan-Katalog 243; this edition not in Cordier.

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BOULTEN, F.A.

[Manuscript ledger recording the time spent working on infrastructural projects].[London?,] 1952-1955. Folio. Lined journal, each page ruled for monthly tallies, with some extra annotations. Contemporary cloth.

[48] pp.Manuscript ledger recording the work hours of F.A. Boulten, from 1952 to 1955. Although Boulten's specific field of work, or even the company he worked for, is not stated, he worked on engineering and infrastructure projects in the British colonies, the Commonwealth and other states in Britain's sphere of influence (most notably Iraq). Each day he devoted 1 to 3.5 hours to multiple power plants, oil terminals, bridges, dams and harbours. As Boulten worked on most of the projects before construction had started, it is probable that his firm was related to the initial financing of the project. A probable suspect for the latter is the Colonial Development Corporation, founded by Great-Britain after World War II for the economic development of its colonial territories. The CDC provided loans for many of the projects mentioned in the ledger. These projects include: the power stations of Aden, Melbourne and Singapore, the oil jetties at Al-Faw near Basra, the harbours of Sierra Leone, Lagos and Mombasa and in Iraq the Adhamiyah Bridge, Darbandikha Dam, Taq Taq Bridge, Lake Tharthar and the Mujarah Canal.Boulten worked 7.5 hours, five days in a week and mentions the days the office was closed, Bank Holidays, sick leave and days off, including one to have an X-ray taken. One of his off days was 2 June 1953, Coronation Day, and he drew a crown above the name of the month. On 15 February 1952 he marked the funeral of King George VI, but spent the day at the office. Binding worn at the extremities; slightly thumbed; in very good condition.

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BOURGES, Jacques de.

Relation du voyage de Monseigneur l'evesque de Beryte, vicaire apostolique du royaume de la Cochinchine, par la Turquie, la Perse, les Indes, &c. jusqu'au royaume de Siam, & autres lieux.Paris, Charles Angot, 1683. 8vo.With:(2) PALLU, François. Relation abregée des missions et des voyages des evesques François envoyez aux royaumes de la Chine, Cochinchine, Tonquin, & Siam.Paris, Charles Angot, 1682. (3) [FERMANEL DE FAVERY, Luc (editor)]. Relation des missions des evesques François aux royaumes de Siam, de la Cochinchine, de Camboye, & du Tonquin, &c. Divisée en quatre parties.Paris, Charles Angot, 1684. (4) Relation des missions et des voyages des evesques vicaires apostoliques, et de leurs ecclesiastiques és années 1672, 1673, 1674 & 1675.Paris, Charles Angot, 1682. (5) Relation des missions et des voyages des evesques vicaires apostoliques, et de leurs ecclesiastiques és années 1676 & 1677. Paris, Charles Angot, 1682. 5 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.

[8], 167, [1]; [6], 51, [1 blank]; [16], 248; [16], 389, [1 blank]; [16], 170, [1] pp.In 1659 the Société des Mission Etrangères (Paris Society of Foreign Missions), a society of secular priests, was established in Paris as an answer to the decline of the Portuguese mission. The two chief founders were appointed as bishops in the Vatican: Lambert de la Motte as bishop of Beirut, with jurisdiction over Cochin-China, four provinces of southeast China and the island of Hainan, and François Pallu as Bishop of Heliopolis (Baalbek), with jurisdiction over Tonkin, Laos, and five provinces of southwestern China. The starting point of the Mission was Siam (Thailand), but the 5 accounts combined here also give considerable information on China, Vietnam and the East Indies. Ad 1 is the third edition of the first published account of Thailand by a Frenchman.With an early owner's inscription on title-page ("Ex libris Hérisson"). A very good copy.l Cordier, Sinica, cols. 826-828; Lach & Van Kley III, pp. 1185-1196.

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[BOURGUET, Louis].

Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire naturelle des pétrifications dans les quatre parties du monde.The Hague, Jean Neaulme, 1742. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 60 folding engraved plates with 441 illustrations of fossils and shells. Modern half calf, gold-tooled spine.

XVI, 163, [1 blank]; 91, [1] pp.First edition of an extensive treatise on palaeontology by the French archaeologist philosopher and mathematician Louis Bourguet (1678-1742). The first part is a compilation of letters relating to Bourguet's previous work, Lettres philosophiques, wherein he compares the processes of the mineral world to processes of the living world. The second part contains sixty plates of fossils, including those unearthed by the author mostly from Switzerland or taken from the works of Lang and Scheuchzer. The 441 illustrations are accompanied by concise explanatory text, a comprehensive bibliography of palaeontology, and a list of international areas where fossils have been found.With the top margin of the title-page trimmed off without losing text and some wormholes, not affecting the text. Good copy.l Honeyman 450; Nissen, ZBI 498; Poggendorff I, cols. 260-261.

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BOUSTEAD, Hugh.

The wind of morning. The autobiography of Colonel Sir Hugh Boustead.London, Chatto & Windus, 1974. Large 8vo. With 8 double sided plates with multiple images, and 4 maps. Orange cloth with title information in gold on spine, with dust jacket, designed by John Woodcock with a photo of a caravan of people on camels on front cover and one of H. Boustead on a horse on the back, title information in purple on front cover and on spine of dust jacket.

240 pp.The autobiography of Colonel Sir (John Edmond) Hugh Boustead (1895-1980), a British military officer and diplomat who served in numerous posts across several Middle Eastern Countries, for example in Ethiopia, Sudan, Aden, and the Hadhramaut in Southern Arabia. He had a remarkable military career, for which he received a knighthood, multiple military crosses and other honours. He started as a midshipman with the Royal Navy before switching to the British Army to fight in France during the First World War and later in Turkey, the Mediterranean, and even in Sudan with the Camel Corps. Boustead ended his career as the ambassador to Abu Dhabi from 1962 until his retirement in 1965. He wrote the present work during the first few years of his retirement, to be published in 1971. The present copy is one of the third impression, which was printed and published in 1974.Slight foxing throughout (including on the dust jacket, not on the outside of the covers), a few brown stains on pp. 56-57 and 59, mostly in the margins and not affecting the legibility of the text. Overall in good condition.

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BOUT, Bernardus de.

’t Nieuwe examen der chirurgie, na de hedendaagse praktyk. t’ samen gestelt voor de gene, welke hare promotie moeten doen om vry messter te werden, en voor die te lande of te water in den oorlog dienen … Vermeerderd met de Nieuw verbeeterde chirurgyns scheeps-kist [by J. Verbrugge].Amsterdam, Jan Claesz. ten Hoorn, 1694. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece by Jan Luyken: “Examen der Chirurgie”, with imprint below (cut short), woodcut title vignettes, initials and tailpieces. Mottled calf, gold-tooled spine with title in gold.

[8], 390, [10], 96 pp.First edition of a manual for the examination to become a free master surgeon in the country or at sea. Jan ten Hoorn, a publisher of medical literature published 5 more editions to 1740 and he includes a stocklist of his medical books at the end. Also added: the third edition of Johannes Verbrugge, De nieuwe verbeterde chirurgyns scheeps-kist, sijnde een catalogus oft lijste der medicamenten die yder chirurgijn naer Oost-of West Indiën gemeenlyk mede-voert (Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1693), the first edition of which was published in 1675; the second in 1680, the sixth in 1723.With a contemporary owner’s inscription by Hermannus Dulles and the armorial bookplate of Nordkirchen on the front paste-down. With the index (quire 2C) mis-bond between frontispiece and title (2 ll.) and between pp. [6] and [7] (2 ll.)l Klaversma & Hannema, Jan en Caspar Luyken te boek gesteld 284; BMN, I, p. 292.

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BOUTEILLE, Hippolyte and M. de LABATIE.

Ornithologie du Dauphiné ou description des oiseaux observés dans les départements de l'Isère, de la Drome, des Hautes-Alpes et les contrées voisines.Grenoble, for the author and "les principaux libraires de la ville", by F. Allier, 1843[-1844]. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 72 lithographed plates by C. Pégeron after Victor Desirée Cassien, and a large folding table. Contemporary half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine.

416; 358, [2 blank] pp.First and only edition of a descriptive and systematic account of the avifauna of Dauphiné, a former province in south-eastern France. This work by Hippoloyte Bouteille (1804-1881), a French ornithologist, pharmacist and conservator of the museum of natural history at Grenoble, and the otherwise unknown M. de Labatie, contains splendid illustrations of more than 300 species after drawings by the Grenoble artist Victor Desirée Cassien and is described by Ronsil as "une des plus intéressants parmi les faunes locales".Some foxing, especially on the leaves protecting the plates. Bindings worn along the extremities, head and foot of the spine slightly damaged and some of the gold-tooling has been rubbed off. Overall in good condition.l Nissen, IVB 127; Ronsil 361; Wood, p. 252; Zimmer, pp. 84-85; for Cassien: Thieme & Becker VI, p. 128.

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BOUTEILLE, Hippolyte and M. de LABATIE.

Ornithologie du Dauphiné ou description des oiseaux observés dans les départements de l'Isère, de la Drome, des Hautes-Alpes et les contrées voisines. Grenoble, for the author and "les principaux libraires de la ville", by F. Allier, 1843[-1844]. 2 volumes bound as 1. Royal 8vo (27 x 18.5 cm). With 72 mounted lithographed plates by C. Pégeron after Victor Desirée Cassien, printed on china paper, and a large folding table. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine.

416; 358, [2 blank] pp.First and only edition of a descriptive and systematic account of the avifauna of Dauphiné, a former province in southeast France, and one of the few copies with all plates printed on China paper.This work by Hippoloyte Bouteille (1804-1881), a French oOrnithologist, pharmacist and conservator of the museum of natural history at Grenoble, and the otherwise unknown M. de Labatie, contains splendid illustrations of more than 300 species after drawings by the Grenoble artist Victor Desirée Cassien and is described by Ronsil as "une des plus intéressants parmi les faunes locales". Although volume two is dated 1843 on the title-page, it wasn't published until at least 1844, for on p. 327 it mentions an event in spring 1844.With bookseller's ticket and bookplate. Only a minor stain on the first half-title, otherwise a very good and attractive copy.l Nissen, IVB 127; Ronsil 361; Wood, p. 252; Zimmer, pp. 84-85; for Cassien: Thieme & Becker VI, p. 128.

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BOUTEROUE D'AUBIGNY, Claude.

Recherches curieuses des monoyes de France depuis le commencement de la monarchie.Paris, Edme Martin, 1666. Large folio (42 x 27.5 cm). With title-page with engraved allegorical illustration by N. Bonnart (including a minting press), and numerous engravings in text incl. 7 full-page (on pp. 336, 342, 349, 354, 359, 364 and 370). Contemporary mottled calf (ca. 1693), richly gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges; and each board with the (later) gold-tooled British Royal arms in the form used in Scotland 1801-1816, encircled by the inscription, "The Society of Writers to the Signet" (that is the Signet Library in Edinburgh; stamp 3, ca. 1815).

[16], 398, [1], [1 blank] pp.Large paper copy of the first and only edition of a study of the coins circulating in France since antiquity, describing the coins of the Jews, ancient Gauls, and Romans, covering the period from the Gauls to the end of Merovingians, written by Claude Bouteroue d'Aubigny (1620-1680), antiquarian of noble descent. From 1654 Bouteroue was the advisor to the royal mint and during the years 1668-1670 intendant of Quebec. In his preface the author announces three other volumes to complete this history which were, however, never published.From the Signet Library in Edinburgh. Some occasional marginal spots and a few corners with traces of old folds, otherwise in very good condition. Spine worn and some minor wear along the extremities of the boards, but the binding is otherwise good.l Brunet I, col. 1185; Cat. Goldsmith I, 1808; Kress 1170; for the author: NBG VII, cols. 126-127.

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