Dialogos de medallas, inscriciones, y otras antiguedades.

8vo: [front.-portrait, 12]-470 pp.; 52 pl. (very sm. worm gallery on lower inner margin of first quires).

Spanish 19th-c. binding: tree-sheep, gilt orn. flat spine with red leather title label, marbled endpapers, red edges. Good copy.

Second edition (1st 1587) of this numismatic work by the Spanish humanist historian, jurist and Roman Catholic archbishop of Tarragona A. Augustin (1516-1586). Illustrated with an engr. portrait of Augustin, one pl. with figures and 51 engr. pl. with coins. Excellent edition, published by Sebastián de La Quadra, of this work on Roman, Gallo-Roman and Iberian medals and coins.
Ref. Palau 4098. - Cp. Dekesel A-24 (1st ed.). - Cátalogo BNE. - BnF.
Prov. Libr. ticket. - "Desgenettes n. 1233", René-Nicolas Dufriche, Baron Desgenettes (1762-1837), French military doctor and chief doctor to the French army in Egypt and at Waterloo (ms. entry on recto last flyleaf).