Sardi, Alessandro, Labbe, Philippi. Bibliotheca Nummaria In 2 Vo. 1675

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Sardi, Alessandro,   Johannis Seldeni Angli Liber De Nummis.
In 2 Vo.  Antique Pecunia Romana & Graeca Metitur Precio Ejus,
Quae Nunc Est In Uso . Hiuc Accedit Bibliotheca
Nummaria,  Sive Elenchus Auctorum, Qui De Antiquis Numismatibus,
Heraeis, Graecis, Romanis; Necnon De Monetis,
Ponderibus, & Mensuris, Ad Hunc Usque Annum Scripserunt.
London, Mosem Pitt,  1675.  (7), 19 pp. Fine engraved vignette of an angle by D. Pauli on title page.
Together with:
Labbe, Philippi.  Bibliotheca Nummaria,
Ex Theologis, Juris Consultis, Medicis, ac Philogis
Concinnate,  & In Duas Partes Tributa;
I.   De Antiquis Numismatibus, Hebraeis, Graecis, Romanis.
II.  De Monetis, Ponderibus & Mensuris.
London, Mosem Pitt, 1675.  (2), 86 pp. Ornamental headpices of
an angle by D. Pauli on title page.
Both volumes bound in one.
Very old half morocco on possibly contemporary marbled boards,
rubbed but sound. all edges red, top edge dusty.
An interesting volume.
With the armorial bookplate of Robert Washington
Oates and later from the library of Peter Seaby,
with his bookplate. The only London edition of Sardi's 1579 work. Lipsius p. 348. The first London
edition of Labbe's 1664 work first published in Paris.
Lipsius p. 217.  Glendining 17 Nov 1988 lot 90.      Scarce