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47 Numismatica

Erizzo, Sebastiano

Speech [...] on the medals of the ancients. With the declaration of the consultant coins, & of the medals of the Roman emperors. In which there is a full & varied knowledge of the history of those times, 1584

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Venice, Giovanni Varisco and Paganino Paganini, & nbsp; & nbsp; [c.ca 1584]. In 8th. 2 parts in 1 vol. Frontispiece within a rich woodcut frame, wooden friezes and initials, numerous illustrations of medals in the text, some light water gora, slight blooms and reddening, some light stains, papers R5-S2 (pp- 265-276) placed after S3, tear with small loss at the upper margin of 2N5, coeval parchment binding, handwritten title on the spine, paper gusset, missing spine, slight defects. Signature of belonging to the guard card.

Specialist Notes

The book by Sebastiano Erizzo (Venice 1525-1585) defined "... the first to make an epoch in numismatic science, the subject of which was treated more extensively by Erizzo than that which Enea Vico had before him ...". Cfr. Gamba (1380 ). Erizzo, philosopher, man of letters, senator and authoritative member of the Council of Ten of Venice, possessed a rich, specialized and even envied collection of medals in a Venice where collecting lusts were in great vogue. The Discourse is proposed as a treatise on history of the Roman coin of the republican and imperial period.