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Vaillant’s 1703 Nummi Antiqui Familiarum Romanarum

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Vaillant’s 1703 Nummi Antiqui Familiarum Romanarum
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Vaillant, J. NUMMI ANTIQUI FAMILIARUM ROMANARUM PERPETUIS INTERPRETATIONIBUS ILLUSTRATI. Amstelædami: Apud G. Gallet, 1703. First edition. Two volumes. Folio [31.5 by 21.5 cm], contemporary full brown calf; spines with six raised bands; all page edges red. (22), 536; 576, (48) pages; finely engraved frontispiece by J. Mulder after J. Goeree; printed titles in red and black with a fine oval engraving; finely engraved dedication and other headpieces; 152 handsomely engraved plates of coins, each depicting the obverse and reverse of twelve coins. Bindings very worn, with boards nearly or entirely detached; contents near fine. Worth restoring. Among the scarcest of Vaillant’s major works. The plates are particularly attractive. Jean Foy Vaillant is considered to be the outstanding numismatic scholar of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, not only in France but throughout Europe. He traveled widely in search of unpublished ancient coins and medals for the royal numismatic collection under Colbert to Italy [Online description truncated: see printed or PDF catalogue for full description.]