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An Original Set of Tentzel

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An Original Set of Tentzel
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Tentzel, Wilhelm Ernst. SAXONIA NUMISMATICA. LINEAE ERNESTINAE ET ALBERTINAE... / SÄCHSISCHES MEDAILLEN-CABINET, VON GEDÄCHTNÜSS-MÜNTZEN UND SCHAU-PFENNIGEN, WELCHE DIE DURCHLAUTIGSTEN CHUR- UND FÜRSTEN ZU SACHSEN ERNESTINISCH- UND ALBERTINISCHER HAUPT-LINIE... SUMTIBUS CHRISTIANI WERMUTHII. Dresden: gedruckt bey Kön. Hoffbuckdrucker / Joh. Riedeln, 1705; Arnstadt: gedruckt in H.A. Meurers / Med. C. Druckerey, 1713. Two parts, in eight sections, complete. (28), 226, (2), (227)-458, (2), (467)-716, (2), (717)-986, 997-1004, (120); (32), 206, (2), (211)-520, (2), (523)-744, (2), 521-658 pages [complete, despite pagination eccentricities]; finely engraved frontispiece titles; German and Latin printed titles in each volume; over 190 engraved plates of coins and medals. [bound with] Wermuth, Christian. ALLGEMEINES HAUPT-REGISTER... INDEX GENERALIS, TAM PERSONARUM, QUAM RERUM, QUAE IN DOMINI WILHEMLI ERNESTI TENZELII SAXONIA NUMISMATICA, & QUIDEM TOMO I. II. III. IV. LINAE ALBERTINAE, CONTINENTUR. Arnstadt/A‘topoli, 1713. (112) pages. Bound in two volumes. Small 4to [20 by 17 cm], contemporary half vellum; hand-lettered spines; all page edges red. A very good or better set. A great landmark work in German numismatics. Scarce and still indispensable. The work is bibliographically complex. The original author died in November 1707 and the publisher, the famous medalist Chr. Wermuth, took over the project and completed it in 1713. This set includes the final part and index to the portion of this classic work devoted to the Albertine line of Saxony. Brückmann 125-126. Clain-Stefanelli 9555*. Grierson 147. Hirsch 127. Lipsius 394.