Author: Carolus Quintus - Charles V Holy Roman Emperor :
Title: Collection of four 16th century illustrated coin ordinances published in the Low Countries bound in one contemporary volume.
Description: .: [1] Die valuwacye vanden Gouden en(de) silveren penningen nu nieuws ghemunt, cours ende ganck hebbende over des Conicklijcke Maiesteyts landen van herwerts over met haren ghewichte ende waerde daer by. Amstelredam (Amsterdam), Jan Ewoutzoon, 1557, in-8°, 153 x 92 mm, (8)nn pp with woodcut coin illustrations. (bound with) [2] Ordonnantie, Statuyt ende Permissie der K.M. vanden gouden en(de)silveren penninghen,...Ghepubliceert int Jaer M.D.achtenveertich den xvii. Julij. Amstelredam, Jan Ewoutzoon, (1558), (80)nn pp with woodcut coin illustrations. (bound with) [3] Die ongevaluweerde Ghouden ende sulveren Munte van diverschen Coningrijcke(n), Hartichdommen, Graefschappen, Heerlijckheden Landen ende Steden...gegeven tot Brussel den thiende dach van Maerte 1550. Jan Ewoutzoon, s.d. (1550), (200)nn pp (A8-M8,N4). (Bound before these three items is [4]) [4] Het Thresoor oft Schat van alle specien, figuren en sorten van Gouden ende Silveren munten....Antwerpen, Guilliaem van Parijs, 1580, (512/520 )nn pp (A8-Z8, a8-i8) Lacks last four leaves (i5-i8). Item 1 has a woodcut portrait of Charles V on the title. Item 2 and 3 have a woodcut vignette on the title which represents the printer's mark ''Satis Quercus'' of Jos Lambrecht of Ghendt (Gent). On this printer's mark see '' La Page de titre à la Renaissance, Brepols 2008 pp. 306-307. Item 4 has on the title the Habsburg coat of arms with the Golden Fleece chain. Bound in contemporary vellum with traces of ties, with twice the manuscript ex-libris of Adriaenz. van Driel, one dated 1560 (?, difficult to decipher). Apart from some old clear waterstains at some pages a very well preserved copy. Probably unique copy of four 16th-century illustrated coin ordinances. [1] USTC 421307. (7 copies known, of which only 2 outside the former Low Countries). [2] USTC 426021 (only 1 copy known, in Royal Library the Hague).[3] USTC 421306 (3 copies known, none outside the Netherlands). [4] USTC 101837 (13 copies, of which one in the USA). .

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