LE BLANC, Fr - Traité Historique des monnoyes... Lot 32

LE BLANC, Fr - Traité Historique des monnoyes de France. With their figures, since the beginning of the monarchy until now. Augmented with a historical Dissertation on some coins of Charlemagne, Loüis Le Debonnaire, Lothaire, and their successors, minted in Rome. Amsterdam, sur l'imprimé de Paris, Pierre Mortier, 1692. 2 parts in one vol. in-4, front, (7) ff, 331 pp, (7) ff; (3) ff, 102 pp, (1) f., 59 plates hors-texte engraved in intaglio, numerous figs, scorched paper, brown bas. granitée of the ep., spine with ornamented nerves, headbands and corners redone, small epid. ENGEL 3806. ''Still an indispensable work for any numismatic library.'' Contains more than a thousand reproduced coins. The only early edition to contain the following : Dissertation historique sur quelques monnoyes de Charlemagne, published separately in 1689 (1303)