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Lot # 203 - BAYER, Theophilo Sigfrido (1694-1738). THEOPHILI SIGEFRIDI BAYERI REGIOMONTANI HISTORIA OSR HOENA ET ED ESSENA EX NUMIS ILLUSTRATA. IN QUA, EDESSAE URBIS, OSRHOENI REGNI, ABGARORUM REGUM, PRAEFECTORUM GRAECORUM, ARABUM, PERSARUM, COMITUM FRANCORUM, SUCCESSIONES SATA, RES ALIAE MEMORABILES, A PRIMA ORIGINE URBIS AD EXTREMA SERETEMPORA EXPLICANTUR. Petropoli (San Pietroburgo), Ex Typographia Academiae, 1734. 4°. 1, (1), 12, (2), 8, 362, 10 pages, 7 plates of coins finely engraved. A header depicting a noble cartouche banner surmounted by a helmet, 2 figured capilettera. Cloth binding with gilt titles and threading on the spine. Library ownership label. Very good condition. Ex Libris Edward Theodore Newell. The only edition of a comprehensive and profound treatise on the coins of the kingdom of Osroen (Upper Mesopotamia) and its capital Edessa, composed by the multifaceted German professor of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1726-1737). This text was the first numismatic work printed in Russia. The volume provides the complete history up to 1400 of the city of Edessa, now called Urfa, in the southeast of Turkey. Under the Roman Empire it became a province and at the fall of the Empire, the city was claimed by both the Persians and the Byzantines, and then conquered by the Arabs. It was later ruled by the Franks and later became part of the Ottoman Empire. The coins depicted in the text date from the period of the independent kingdom.gr. 1016
Lot # 206 - ECKHEL, Joseph Hilarius Von. NUMI VETERES ANECDOTI EX MUSEIS CAESAREO VINDOBONENSI, FLORENTINO MAGNI DUCIS ETRURIAE, GRANELLIANO NUNC CAESAREO, VITZAIANO, FESTETICSIANO, SAVORGNANO VENETO, ALIISQUE, COLLEGIT, ET ANIMADVERSIONIBUS ILLUSTRAVIT JOSEPHUS ECKHEL THESAURO CAESAREO NUMORUM VETERUM, ET REI ANTIQUARIAE IN UNIVERSITATE VINDOBONENSI DOCENDAE PRAEFECTUS. PARS I. COMPLECTENS NUMOS IN EUROPAE URBIBUS SIGNATOS. Con: PARS II. NUMI VETERES ANECDOTI PARS II COMPLECTENS NUMOS IN ASIAE, ET AFRICAE URBIBUS SIGNATOS, QUIBUS ADDUNTUR, NUMI INCERTI, ET NONNULLI LATINE INSCRIPTI. Viennae Austriae, Typis Josephi Kurzböck, Caes. Reg. Aulae Illyr. Orient Typographus et Bibliopola, 1775. In 8°. (2), 1, (1), 4 pages of dedication to Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, 6 pages of introduction, 162 pages. 163-318 pages, 10 pages of index; 17 finely engraved folded plates of coins. Antique half-leather binding with marbled corners and plates. Gilt spine, threading and titles. Vignette and finials with floral decoration and figures. Front cover partially unbound. Some pages browned but no damage to the text. Overall, good condition. Following the suppression of the Jesuit College in Vienna, the adjoining numismatic cabinet was incorporated into the imperial collection. The former curator, Abbot Eckhel, moved in with the coins and was appointed curator of ancient coins of the Imperial Coin Cabinet in March 1774. Printed at the author's own expense, this first numismatic work is divided into two parts. The first part (pp. 1-162) is devoted to ancient coins minted in Europe, arranged clockwise from Hispania and Gaul to the Greek islands; the second part (pp. 165-318) concerns specimens minted in Asia and Africa, arranged clockwise from Pontus to Egypt; in addition, some indeterminate specimens are described, as well as some Republican, Imperial and Byzantine Roman.gr. 912