Nov 11, 2008 - Sale 2162

Sale 2162 - Lot 136

Price Realized: $ 360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
(NUMISMATICS.) Pérez Bayer, Francisco. De numis Hebraeo-Samaritanis. Engraved allegorical frontispiece, portrait of the dedicatee, Charles III of Spain, and 10 plates, the first 6 showing numismatic subjects. [16], 245, [1], xxi, [1], 12 pages, including half-title. 4to, contemporary sheep, badly worn; some worming in blank lower margins, plate 5 dampstained along fore edge. Valencia: Benito Montfort, 1781

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first edition. "Francisco Pérez Bayer was the most distinguished Spanish Hebraist of his day . . . His works on ancient Hebrew coinage . . . laid the basis for the serious study of Jewish numismatics"--EJ XIII, 284. Palau 219818.