Live auction - Lot 1052
[Numismatics - Antwerp imprint]
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 [...].
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
Antwerp, H. Verdussen, 1633
Narrow folio (checkbook format): [122 [of 126]] ff. (browning, cut short shaving some text & sheet signatures and a few impressions, French title and ff. 3-5 missing, right half of title page missing, first and last two quires gnawed at, some staining).
Modern cardboard covers, yellow edges (rubbed). Used, incomplete copy.
One of 3 editions of the same year. Important official manual for the use of money changers. This narrow folio format was easy to be kept in the pocket and carried about all the time. With 3370 woodcut coin illustrations (obverse and reverse of 1685 coins). Woodcut Spanish arms on title. Gothic type. Ref. B.B. IV:554 O-114. - Opac KBR. - STCV. - BL. - Bn-Opale plus. Prov. Ownership entry on flylvs.