Beschreibung:

Bie (Jacques de). Les Familles de la France illustrées par les Monumens des Medailles anciennes et modernes ..., Paris: chez l'Auteur, 1634, additional engraved title, numerous engraved illustrations to text, engraved head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, some intermittent spotting, front free endpaper with armorial bookplate, front hinge cracked before title, contemporary mottled calf gilt, rebacked and worn, some loss of leather to foot of front cover, folio, together with: Luck (Johann Jacob), Sylloge Numismatum Elegantiorum, Paris, 1660, additional engraved title (dated 1620), numerous engraved illustrations to text, some spotting and browning, title with some minor marks and early ink manuscript ownership name, 1 leaf with repair to lower outer corner, front pastedown with armorial bookplate 'Hugh, Duke of Westminster, Eaton, 1884', front hinge partly cracked, 19th century dark blue/green half morocco, rubbed with some marks, faded spine somewhat frayed at head, folio, plus two others related: Prima [-seconda] parte del Prontvario de le medaglie de piu illustri, & fulgenti huomini & donne, Lyon: Guglielmo Rouillio, 1553, and La Science des Medailles Antiques et Modernes, by Louis Jobert, Paris: Jean Boudot, 1715 (Qty: 5) Luck: this volume appears to be a scarce re-issue of the original 1620 edition, identical to the first apart from the Paris title-page dated 1660.