Null [NUMISMATIC]. GODONNESCHE (N.). MEDALS FROM THE REIGN OF LOUIS XV. S.L.N.D.…

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[NUMISMATIC]. GODONNESCHE (N.). MEDALS FROM THE REIGN OF LOUIS XV. S.l.n.d. [Paris, 1736]. In-4 brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated, red edges (period binding); (3) ff. front, illustrated title, dedication and 54 ff. Joints cracked and missing but seams solid, headpieces and 2 upper caissons missing, corners dulled and missing. ORIGINAL EDITION containing a FRONTISPICE engraved by Cars after F. le Moine, an illustrated TITLE, a dedication leaf to the king signed by Godonnesche and 54 plates of finely engraved reproductions of medals, in a historiated frame. The entire work is engraved. Binding damaged, but main body in good condition. From the library of Jean-François BOUQUET, with his heraldic bookplate: "Ex bibliotheca D. Joannis Francisci Bouquet". ¶ Cohen, 441.

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[NUMISMATIC]. GODONNESCHE (N.). MEDALS FROM THE REIGN OF LOUIS XV. S.l.n.d. [Paris, 1736]. In-4 brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated, red edges (period binding); (3) ff. front, illustrated title, dedication and 54 ff. Joints cracked and missing but seams solid, headpieces and 2 upper caissons missing, corners dulled and missing. ORIGINAL EDITION containing a FRONTISPICE engraved by Cars after F. le Moine, an illustrated TITLE, a dedication leaf to the king signed by Godonnesche and 54 plates of finely engraved reproductions of medals, in a historiated frame. The entire work is engraved. Binding damaged, but main body in good condition. From the library of Jean-François BOUQUET, with his heraldic bookplate: "Ex bibliotheca D. Joannis Francisci Bouquet". ¶ Cohen, 441.

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