Numismata Imperatorum Romanorum praestantiora a Julio Caesare ad posthumum et tyrannos. Per Joannem Vaillant Bellovacum, Doct. Med. & Seren. Ducis Cenomanensium Antiquarium. Tomus primus. De Romanis aereis, seu senatus consulto percussis. ... Cui accessit series numismatum maximi moduli nondum observata.
Jean Foy-Vaillant (1632-1706)
Category
Books
Date
1694
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3146948
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. ([16], 256, [20]; [8], 397, [43] p.) : ill. (metal cuts) ; 4to. Running number: 6182. Quires *4 and **2 from end of vol. 1 are mis-bound at end of vol. 2. Provenance: manuscript inscription on second front fly-leaf: "M. 2. Tom. 1. vol. NB. The last index at the end of the 2d. Tome should be in Tome 1. between p. 188 & 189. as is observed at the bottom of the first column of the first page of the said Index"." [i.e. catalogue code and note written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript price in pencil on front fly-leaf: "12s". Binding: late seventeenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn onto four tawed leather cords; covers are blind-tooled with a double fillet border and a central panel of double fillets with a roll pattern and cornerpiece stamps; blind roll pattern along board edges; blind fillet and roll decoration on spine. Brown sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Jean Foy-Vaillant (1632-1706), author Adriaan Schoonebeek (1657-1705), artist Adriaan Schoonebeek (1657-1705), engraver (inciser)