BIZOT (Pierre):

Histoire Metallique de la Republique de Hollande.

A Paris, Chez Daniel Horthemels Libraire..., 1687. FIRST EDITION. Folio, 370 x 235 mms., pp. [xiv], 317 [318 blank, 319 - 331 Index, 332 - 333 Errata and Privilege, 334 blank], engraved title-page (by S. La Clercinu Lalouette after Sébastien Le Clerc) preceding letter-press title-page, 12 full-page engraved plates, engraved vignettes in text, and culs de lampe, all finely executed, contemporary calf, gilt spine; paper a bit browned, binding dried and worn, spine faded, corners and extremities worn, lacks label, but a firm binding with the armorial bookplate of Baron John Rolle (1751 - 1842), on the front paste-down end-paper. The French numismatist Pierre Bizot (1630 - 1696) made his reputation with this on the history of coins and medals of the Dutch Republic. He published a second part in 1690, but it only appeared in the Dutch editions, the first of which was published in that year. The coins and medals which he illustrates were themselves produced between 1566 and 1680. In the same year Bizot also published Theatre d'honneur des héros qui out sacrificé leurs vies pour la Republique de Hollande, o'u l'on voit gravez, sur le suivre, les Tombeaux magnifigues qui ont été en leur honneur et leurs épitaphes. Many of the engraved illustrations celebrate great moments in Dutch history. For example, in 1590, a turfship was the instrument by which the Dutch recaptured the port city of Breda from the Spanish, and Bizot records the feat in this work, with engravings (p. 63) of the medals struck. McGrath, Elizabeth: "A Netherlandish History by Joachim Wtewael," in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes (1975).

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N° du livre: 7730

Catalogue: Numismatics

Mots-clés: numismatics History prose

D'AFFRY DE LA MONNOY (Alfred):

Les Jetons de l'Échevinage Parisien Documents pour serir a une histoire metallique du bureau de la vaille et de diverses institutions Parisiennnes. Avec une table analytique e tdeux series de pieces justificatives reunies, coordonnes et annotees par le service historique de la ville de Paris.

Paris, Imprimerie Natinale 1878. FIRST EDITION. Large folio, 340 x 230 mms., pp. [iv], 416 [417 errata, 418 blank], with illustrations of coins and medals within text, original printed green boards; shaken in casing, corners and edges worn. The contents include Introduction à l'étude des jetons; Jetons banaux; Jetons et médailles des prévôts et échevins; Jetons des officiers de la ville; Appendices et pièces justificatives.

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N° du livre: 7826

Catalogue: Numismatics

Mots-clés: numismatics History prose

[PINKERTON (John)]:

An Essay on Medals.

London: Printed for James Dodsley..., 1784. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 198 x 113 mms., pp. xxxii, 324 [325 - 326 "Corrections"], uncut, with an autograph letters, signed, address to the author and Mason J. Kinton Bond and dated 18 June, 1892, signed "H. Henson,"19th century buckram, a bit soiled. Herbert Hensley Henson (8 November 1863 – 27 September 1947) was an Anglican priest, scholar and controversialist. He was Bishop of Hereford, 1918–20 and Bishop of Durham, 1920–39. The son of a zealous member of the Plymouth Brethren, Henson was not allowed to go to school until he was fourteen, and was largely self-educated. He was admitted to the University of Oxford, and gained a first-class degree in 1884. In the same year he was elected as a Fellow of All Souls, where he began to make a reputation as a speaker. He was ordained as a priest in 1888. (Wikipedia). The Critical Review for 1784 described the work as "concise, perspicuous, and unaffected...," concluding that the work that "The work affords a comprehensive, systematic account of medals; and will be read with pleasure by those who has a taste for that entertaining part of historical knowledge." Pinkerton (1758 - 1826) revised and enlarged the work for a second edition in two volumes in 1789, and followed up with The Medallic History of England to the Revolution (1790).

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N° du livre: 7784

Catalogue: Numismatics

Mots-clés: numismatics History prose