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Numismatica - Sicilia - Castelli , Gabriele Lancillotto principe di Torremuzza

Siciliae populorum et urbium regum quoque et tyrannorum veteres nummi Saracenorum epocham anticedantes, 1781

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Palermo, Royal Printing House, 1781. In 2°. Half-title, chalcographic vignette on the title page, chalcographic initials and friezes, with CVI full-page plates engraved by Melchiorre Di Bella outside the text. Bound with Ad Siciliae populorum et urbium, regum quoque et tyrannorum veteres nummos Saracenorum epocham antecedentes auctarium. Palermo, typis regiis, 1789. With IX full-page tipped-in plates. Linked with Ad Siciliae populorum et urbium regum quoque et tyrannorum veteres nummos Saracenorum epocham antecedentes auctarium secundum. Palermo, typis regiis, 1791. With IX intaglio plates outside the text, light browning, more intense on some leaves, slight marginal foxing, slight halo with traces of humidity on the upper margin of the last issues, coeval binding in half green morocco, title imprinted in gilt spine, minor defects.

Specialist Notes

First edition of this famous treatise on Sicilian numismatics