ADLER. J. G. C. Museum Cuficum Borgianum Veletris. Rome, Fulgoni, 1782.
Quarto, pp. vi, (2), 172; 4 engraved illustrations in the text; 12 very finely engraved plates. Contemporary half calf; contrasting red and green labels, gilt; worn at extremities; marbled boards; marbled endpapers; later plain free endpapers. WITH: Museum Cuficum Borgianum Veletris pars II. Collectio nova numorum cuficorum seu arabicorum veterum, CXVI continens numos plerosque ineditos e museis Borgiano et Adleriano. Edition secounda, supplemento aucta. Altonae (Copenhagen), 1795. Quarto, pp. xvi, 182, (6), 7, (1); 4 engraved illustrations in the text; 7 very finely engraved plates, the final inverted. Including the even rarer second edition of the second part. Almost entirely unopened and unsophisticated, in the original publisher's blue paper covered boards, minimal wear. ADLER'S EXTREMELY RARE CATALOGUE OF BORGIA'S CUFIC COINS. Both volumes are extremely rare. (SPK S967)
£1800
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