Author: SPANHEMIUS, Ezechiel.
Title: Dissertationes de praestantia et usu numismatum antiquorum. Editio nova. Tomus primus.
Description: London, Richard Smith, 1706. Folio. [xlviii], 726, [42] pp. With frontispiece, folding portrait of Spanheim by Pieter van Gunst after Benjamin Arlaud, & numerous mostly numismatic, engravings in the text. Calf (binding very damaged, waterstained in bottom margin, some pages slightly stained, or age-toned; marginal tear in one leaf; mediocre copy).; old owner's entries on title-page of the Jesuit College in Paris, and "D.A.Grafton 1780." ¶ Ezechiel Spanheim (1629-1710), son of Leyden professor Frederik Spanheim, was ambassador of Brandenburg at the French court for nine years, first ambassador of Prussia in London, and a celebrated numismatist. First published in Rome in 1664, this is the ultimate edition. Vol.2 was published in Amsterdam in 1717.

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