NUMISMATICS Le Pois Antoine Discours sur les Medalles et Gr

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(NUMISMATICS.) Le Pois, Antoine. Discours sur les Medalles et Graveures Antiques, principalement Romaines. Engraved portrait of the author and 20 numismatic plates with multiple subjects by Pierre Woeiriot; woodcut text illustrations, including unmutilated full-page depiction of Priapus. [8], 147 [i. e., 149], [7] leaves. 4to, 18th-century French morocco gilt, front joint starting. Armorial bookplate of Wilmot, Earl of Lilburne. Paris: Mamert Patisson, 1579

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first edition of a work on the coins and medals of classical antiquity. Alden 579/31 (for mention of the discoveries of Columbus and Vespucci and the dissemination of ancient Roman coins in the New World); Fairfax Murray/French 667; Harvard/Mortimer-French 350; Schreiber 254.