Jean Vaillant - Numismata Imperatorum Romanorum - 3 volumes
Jean Vaillant. - Numismata Imperatorum Romanorum. - Rome, Jean-Baptiste Bernabé & Joseph Lazzarini, volumes (complete) - 347 pp., 452 pp. & 372 pp. - Half leather bound (18th Cent. binding) - 27 x 21 cm. In-Quarto.Good overall condition. Binding a bit rubbed, mainly on the back, but copy with fine marginsThe most beautiful of the editions of the reference book of the numismatist of Louis XIV, Jean Foy-Vaillant (), augmented by father Baldini. Each of the three volumes is illustrated with a woodcut on the title page, and the whole gathers 356 engravings from medals engraved on copper and approximately 150 vignettes and initials by Jean-Baptiste Sintes ().Copy linked to the Société des antiquaires of Morinie (Saint-Omer), a circle that frequented both Louis de Givenchy who left his beautiful ex-Libris with arms in the reverse side of cover and Raoul de Vilmarest, who left his manuscript ex-libris above. "Much esteemed work", says Brunet (Brunet, V, ; Journal des Savants, ). Read More