FAURIS SAINT VINCENT. Monnoies des Comtes de Provence.S.l., s.t., 1770

Small folio, Contemporary binding in boards; Title page with woodcut ornament, pp. 2 b., 13 copper plates; pp. 4 nn., title and 3 blank leaves, 17 copper plates; pp. 4 nn., title and 3 blank leaves, 24.; a total of 30 copper plates depicting coins and medals. Manuscript note of a previous ownership on the inside cover “Ex libris Adv. Augustini Mariotti”. Stamp of ancient collection printed in red ink on the lower margin of the first plate. Bound with:

Memoire sur les medailles de Marseille.S.l., s.t., 1771

Title page with portrait engraved on copper, pp. 2 b., 21, 3 b.; 7 Vignettes engraved on copper in the text, portrait at the title page included and 4 plates numbered and engraved on copper with coins and medals. Fine specimen.

Very rare first illustrated editions. Important work of numismatics divided in three parts: the second is entitled "Monnoies here ont cours en Provence sous les Comtes"; the third, 24 pages with the text framed in columns and it is entitled "Table contenant the name des monnoies des Comtes de Provence, leur titre, leur poids, & leur valeur".Fine specimen, printed partially on blue paper.

This work is mentioned in A.-J.-A.Fauris de Saint-Vincens, Notice sur Jules-François-Paul Fauris Saint-Vincens, Aix, Impr. d'Antoine Henricy, An VIII, 1799; Barbier III, 337, shows the next edition in 8vo, Aix, An IX. No Einaudi, Kress.

Quérard, La France littéraire, 1829, III, p. 72, mentions this work with only three plates