Numismata Antiqua in tres partes divisa. collegit olim et æri incidi vivens curavit Thomas Pembrochiæ et Montis Gomerici Comes
RA Collection: Book
Record number
04/3495
Variant Title
Numismatum Antiquorum In Musæo Pembrochiano Sylloges Pars
Nummi Anglici et Scotici cum aliquot Numismatibus recentioribus collegit Thomas Pembrochiæ et Montis Gomerici Comes
Imprint
: Prelo demum mandabantur A.D. MDCCXLVI.
Physical Description
2 vols.; 380 mm. (Broadsheet.)
General Note
Vol. I: Engr. t.pl., 38, [1], 98 pl. - Vol. II: 129, [1], 41 pl.
Contents
In Vol. I the unnumbered engraved title-plate is followed by plates 1-38 of Part 1; an unnumbered plates showing 'Numismatum Magnitudines' and the 98 plates of Part 2 (the first of which incorporates the divisional title). In Volume II there are 129 plates of Part 3 (the first of which incorporates the divisional title), followed by the unnumbered divisional title-plate of Part 4 and plates 1-41 of Part 4.
References
ESTC, T147038, T147037 [small-paper issue].
F. Bassoli, Antiquarian books on coins and medals (2001) Medals and coins from Budé to Mommsen, ed. M. Crawford et al. (1990)
F. Bassoli, Monete e medaglie nel libro antico (1985).
Summary Note
The title of Part 2 (given in its plate 1) is 'Numismatum Antiquorum In Musæo Pembrochiano Sylloges Pars II'; that of Part 3 (given in its plate 1) is 'Numismatum Antiquorum In Musæo Pembrochiano Sylloges Pars III'; that of Part 4 (given in its divisional title-plate) is 'Nummi Anglici et Scotici cum aliquot Numismatibus recentioribus collegit Thomas Pembrochiæ et Montis Gomerici Comes'.
The plates show the choicest coins in Lord Pembroke's collection - and also some fake coins purporting to be of Priam, Aesop, Julius Caesar and Otho (of which J. Evelyn had already written in his A Discourse of Medals).
A small-paper issue was also published in the same year.
Provenance
Purchased by 1780. Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802.
Binding Note
18th-century mottled calf, upper covers gilt-stamped with arms of Britain and 'R A', rebacked in 20th century, red and green spine-labels lettered 'Numismata Antiqua Pembrochiana Tom. I (II)'.
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