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[Numismatics] - GOLTZIUS, Hubertus - Sicilia et Magna Graecia sive Historiae urbium et populorum...

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[Numismatics] - GOLTZIUS, Hubertus - Sicilia et Magna Graecia sive Historiae urbium et populorum...
[Numismatics] - GOLTZIUS, Hubertus - Sicilia et Magna Graecia sive Historiae urbium et populorum Graeciae ex antiquis numismatibus restitutae liber primus. Bruges, Hubertus Goltzius, April 1576 [bound with] ID. - Siciliae historia posterior. Bruges, Hubertus Goltzius (col. : [Antwerp], Gillis van den Rade for H. Goltzius), April 1576. 2 works in 1 vol., folio, old sp. sheep over boards, elaborately gilt spine on 5 raised bands (small def.), red edges, [28]-XLI-[3]-327-[57], [73-[15] pp. (browning, some stains; I : lacking A3, portrait of Goltzius after Antonio Moro, II : a1 bound between Bbb2-3 of I, lacking a2-3, portrait of Goltzius by Melchior Lorichius and some liminaria). Good copy. € 500/700 I : 1st edition, 1st issue (2nd : 1581) of Book I of Goltzius' last great work: a history of Sicily and the Greek colonies in Italy, based on numismatic and epigraphic evidence. No more books were published, but for the following small supplement. Engr. title, 2 engr. maps (Sicily and Greek colonies), 37 engr. plates with coins. Ref. Bibl. Belgica III 249-251 G-389. Le Loup in Cat. Goltzius en Brugge nr. 42. Adams G-836. STCDutch (BL London) p. 87. Not in Machiels. I: B.T. 1297. Dekesel, Bibl. nummaria G-56. II: B.T. 1298. BN Paris (1).