Author: LANGLOIS, Victor.
Title: Numismatique des Arabes avant l'islamisme.Paris, C. Rollin and Druand; London, J. Curt (colophon and back of half-title: printed by Pommeret and Moreau, Paris), 1859. 4to. With 4 numbered engraved plates and 1 lithographed "bis" plate. Publisher's letterpress printed paper wrappers.
Description: XII, 158 pp.First edition of a monograph on the pre-Islamic coinage of the Arabs by the French historian, orientalist and numismatist Victor Langlois (1829-1869). The book is divided into five chapters, treating the coins of Nabataea, Characene, Palmyra, Edessa and Hatra, and is followed by an appendix on the Arab colonies, including the rare coins from Abyssinia. Spine slightly discoloured, but otherwise in very good condition, wholly untrimmed with all bolts unopened and in the original printed wrappers.l Gay 3581; Hage Chahine 2621; "La numismatique musulmane" at: Cosmovisions.
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Title: Numismatique des Arabes avant l'islamisme.Paris, C. Rollin and Druand; London, J. Curt (colophon and back of half-title: printed by Pommeret and Moreau, Paris), 1859. 4to. With 4 numbered engraved plates and 1 lithographed "bis" plate. Publisher's letterpress printed paper wrappers.
Description: XII, 158 pp.First edition of a monograph on the pre-Islamic coinage of the Arabs by the French historian, orientalist and numismatist Victor Langlois (1829-1869). The book is divided into five chapters, treating the coins of Nabataea, Characene, Palmyra, Edessa and Hatra, and is followed by an appendix on the Arab colonies, including the rare coins from Abyssinia. Spine slightly discoloured, but otherwise in very good condition, wholly untrimmed with all bolts unopened and in the original printed wrappers.l Gay 3581; Hage Chahine 2621; "La numismatique musulmane" at: Cosmovisions.
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