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A Fine Copy of Desneux on Akanthos, with a Letter from the Author

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A Fine Copy of Desneux on Akanthos, with a Letter from the Author
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Desneux, Jules. LES TÉTRADRACHMES D'AKANTHOS. First separate edition. Bruxelles: Société Royale de Numismatique, 1949. 8vo, later green half morocco; spine lettered in gilt. 122, (6) pages; very fine tipped-in frontispiece coin enlargement (reverse depiction at end); text figures; 38 very fine plates of coins. Rear board with custom-made pocket holding a two-page (four side) handwritten letter dated 1949 from the author to E. Hoffmann, a carbon-copy of a two-page letter from Hoffmann to Desneux, and a later handwritten card about the book. Fine. A very attractive copy of a scarce and superbly illustrated work, accompanied by a rather lengthy handwritten letter from the author regarding a tetradrachm of Akanthos, a plaster of which was sent to him by Hoffmann. Clain-Stefanelli 2318. Grierson 60.