- (NUMISMATICS) ECKHEL (Joseph). "Sylloge... Lot 13

- (NUMISMATICS) ECKHEL (Joseph). "Sylloge numorum anecdotorum thesauri caesarei cum commentariis". "Descriptio numorum antiochiae syriae sive specimen artis criticae numariae quod rei veteris numismaticae studiosis exhibet Joseph Eckhel thesauro caesareo numorum gemmarumque". Vienna, Joan Thomas Nobilis de Trattnern, 1786, Two volumes bound in one volume in quarto bound in half old basane, smooth spine with false nerves, double black leather title-piece, colored boards (binding probably slightly later). (1ff) (VIII) (2 ff), 120 pp (2 ff of index) followed by 10 folding plates mounted on tabs. Beautiful lamp-heads and (XXII) ( 1 ff) 56 pp (1 ff blc). Title page of the first volume foxed, a leather split on a spine ( 3 cm), boards very slightly rubbed. Rare first edition. "In 1786, the author published a first collection of anecdotal medals containing those he had determined and described since the publication of his Numi Anecdoti, they are arranged as in the first work. This collection is accompanied by 10 plates and has no continuation. It was again in 1786 that he published a numismatic monograph, in which he applied his method. It is a description of the medals of Antioch and Syria, presented as a numismatic essay. In the preface of this little work, he explains the plan of the immense work that he was preparing at that time and which was to give the science an absolutely new form. In " Notice Historique de Joseph Hilaire Eckhel " by A.L Millin de Grandmaison. Paris. Year VII (1798 /1799).