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Part I of Negelein: Preliminaries & Medals of 1700

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Part I of Negelein: Preliminaries & Medals of 1700
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(Negelein, Joachim, and Melchior Koernlein). THESAURUS NUMISMATUM MODERNORUM HUIUS SECULI, SIVE NUMISMATA MNEMONICA ET ICONICA QUIBUS PRAECIPUI EVENTUS ET RES GESTAE AB ANNO MDCC. ILLUSTRANTUR, FIGURIS AENEIS EXPRESSA, ADDITA LATINA ET GERMANICA EXPLICATIONE. // HISTORISCHE GEDÄCHTNUSS-MÜNTZEN DES GEGENWÄRTIGEN SECULI, ODER GEDÄCHTNUSS- UND SCHAU-PFENNINGE / WELCHE AUF DIE FÜRNEHMSTEN BEGEBENHEITEN UND VORFÄLLE VON ANNO 1700. AN SIND GEPRÄGET WORDEN / IN KUPFFER GEBRACHT / SAMT BEGEFÜGTER LATEINISCHEN UND TEUTSCHEN ERKLÜRUNG. Norimbergæ: Sumtibus & typis Joh. Andr. Endteri p. m. Filii & Hæredum. // Nürnberg: Gedruckt und verlegt durch Joh. Andreä Endters Seel, Sohn und Erben, (1711). Folio [31.5 by 21], contemporary mottled pasteboards. Half-title; superbly engraved frontispiece title; printed title in red and black; 7 printed leaves of preliminaries; (2), 74 pages; woodcut initials, headpieces and tailpieces; dozens of very fine engravings of medals throughout. Text in Latin and German. Binding weak, with front board nearly loose; interiors very good or better. A rare copy of the first part of this impressive and important work on contemporary medals. Covers 1700 and includes the important preliminaries and the exceptional engraved frontispiece. The engravings throughout are unusually well-executed. See V. Arefiev’s Numismatische Literatur-Belustigungen, Supplementum III, for a fine overview of Negelein and his work. Hirsch 128. Lipsius 282. Strandberg 125. Ex Kolbe Sale 87, lot 397.