HOUWELINGHEN, ERASMUS VAN]. Penninck-boeck, Inhoudende alle Figuren van Selvere ende Goude penningen ghestaeghen byde Graeven van Hollandt, van Dierick de 7e van dien naem tot Philippus van Bourgondien toe. Leyden: Francoys van Ravelenghien 1597. 4to, 195 x 154 mm. (7 13/16 x 6 in.), dark brown crushed levant morocco, covers with central gilt cartouche, spine in six compartments, gilt-lettered, turn-ins gilt, g.e., by Riviere & Son, joints and extremities rubbed, upper inner hinges cracked, minor fraying to edges of A3, A4, and B1, C2 and F2 headlines shaved, slight offsetting to title from bookplate on preceding leaf, some slight soiling . FIRST EDITION. Collation: A-F4. 24 leaves. Gothic type, woodcut printer's device on title, two 6-line woodcut initials, 20 full-page engravings depicting Dutch silver and gold coins (all but 2 with versos blank), the engravings with headlines and side-notes in roman type. Apparently the first work on modern European coins. The author and engraver Van Houwelinghen was a goldsmith and silversmith who amassed an important coin collection, the basis for the present discussion of medieval Dutch coins. RARE. BM/STC Dutch (1598 edition only), not in Adams, van der Haeghen, or NUC (listing one copy of the 1627 edition only). Provenance : Nineteenth-century marginal notes in pencil (erased) -- William Wrixon Leycester, armorial bookplate.
HOUWELINGHEN, ERASMUS VAN]. Penninck-boeck, Inhoudende alle Figuren van Selvere ende Goude penningen ghestaeghen byde Graeven van Hollandt, van Dierick de 7e van dien naem tot Philippus van Bourgondien toe. Leyden: Francoys van Ravelenghien 1597. 4to, 195 x 154 mm. (7 13/16 x 6 in.), dark brown crushed levant morocco, covers with central gilt cartouche, spine in six compartments, gilt-lettered, turn-ins gilt, g.e., by Riviere & Son, joints and extremities rubbed, upper inner hinges cracked, minor fraying to edges of A3, A4, and B1, C2 and F2 headlines shaved, slight offsetting to title from bookplate on preceding leaf, some slight soiling . FIRST EDITION. Collation: A-F4. 24 leaves. Gothic type, woodcut printer's device on title, two 6-line woodcut initials, 20 full-page engravings depicting Dutch silver and gold coins (all but 2 with versos blank), the engravings with headlines and side-notes in roman type. Apparently the first work on modern European coins. The author and engraver Van Houwelinghen was a goldsmith and silversmith who amassed an important coin collection, the basis for the present discussion of medieval Dutch coins. RARE. BM/STC Dutch (1598 edition only), not in Adams, van der Haeghen, or NUC (listing one copy of the 1627 edition only). Provenance : Nineteenth-century marginal notes in pencil (erased) -- William Wrixon Leycester, armorial bookplate.
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