Live auction - Lot 1365
Ordonnancie ende instructie naer de welcke voort-aen hen moeten reguleren die ghesworen wisselaers ofte collecteurs vande goude ende silvere penningen/ wesende verboden/ gheschroyt/ te licht of te seer versleten [...].
Subject: [Numismatics]
€ 250 / 300
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Lot description
Antwerp, H. Verdussen, 1633
Narrow folio (checkbook format): [123 [of 126]] ff. (French title and ff. V2-3 missing, first and last few ff. sl. used).
Old sheep, flat spine (sm. def. at head & tail). Good copy.
One of 3 editions of the same year. Important official manual for the use of money changers. This narrow folio format was easily kept in a pocket and carried about. With 3370 woodcut coin illustrations (obverse and reverse of 1685 coins). Woodcut Spanish arms on title. Gothic type.
Ref. BB IV:554:O-114. - STCV 3121015.
Joined: Another copy of the same book, another 1633 edition. Narrow folio (checkbook format): [122 [of 126]] ff. (browning, cut short shaving some text & sheet signatures and a few impressions; French title and ff. A3-5 missing, f. C8 bound between ff. G1-2, right half of title page missing, first and last two quires gnawed at, some staining). Modern cardboard covers, yellow edges. Ref. STCV 12913196. Prov. Ownership entry on flylvs. (2 vol.)