Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller

(Nuremberg: Heirs of P. Furst), 1683. Second edition. Folio. (iv), 56 pp. Edited by Johann Georg Volckamer. Text in Latin and in Italian. Illustrated with an engraved title-page by Wilhelm Pfann, 13 engraved plates of ancient Greek coinage, and five engraved maps of Southern Italy. Full contemporary vellum, contemporary ink title on spine, boards bowed; open tear in fore-edge of C1, C2, and F1; loss in fore-edge of F2, but not affecting text; dampstaining and old soiling in fore-edge. BL German P-136

A rare work on the currency of Ancient Greece, featuring 13 numismatic-themed plates depicting over 120 different ancient coins used primarily in Naples and Calabria, as well as five fine maps showing Sicily, Puglia, Calabria, Campania, and Naples. The text at front is divided into two parts, the first a history of Magna Graecia, in Latin, and the second, a history of the Kingdom of Naples, in Italian. The first edition was apparently published in Rome in 1592.

Rare to auction, according to RBH, this is only the fourth copy offered since 1970.