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(NUMISMATICS) HARDOUIN (Jean) (Quimper 1646...

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(NUMISMATICS) HARDOUIN (Jean) (Quimper 1646 / Paris 1729). "Antirreticus de numis antiquis coloniarum et municipiorum ad joan foy vaillant med. Paris, Muguet, 1689, in-4 bound in full speckled calf, richly decorated spine, colored endpapers. Label of the Carlo Vandoni bookshop. 150 pp (2 ff) (1 ff blc) followed by 7 black plates presenting 131 figures. Foliage faded throughout, head of binding a bit chewed with a slight lack, missing two color endpapers. Rare first edition complete with its plates. The author, a Jesuit librarian at the Lycée Louis le Grand, was the author of some original numismatic research.