De Nummo Argenteo Benedicti III
Romae [Rome]: Excudebant Nicolaus / Marcus Palearini / Typographi et Bibliopolae Romani, 1749. Very Good. Item #32534
Romae [Rome]: Excudebant Nicolaus, et Marcus Palearini / Typographi et Bibliopolae Romani, 1749. First Edition. Quarto; full contemporary parchment, gilt spine lettering, all edges marbled red; 174,[4]pp. (collated complete); one engraved plate, woodcut illus. in text, title page device, initials, head- and tail-pieces. Ex-seminary library with faint spine label and a few internal rubber-stamps, leather dust-soiled and boards bowed, contemporary ownership signature to title page, else Very Good, internally clean and sound.
Extensive study of the silver coins from the age of Pope Benedict III beginning with his supposed predecessor Pope Joan.
Price: $350.00