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SCARUFFI, Gasparo. L'Alitinonfo ... per fare ragione, et concordanza d'oro, e d'argento, che sevir in universale, tanto per provedere gli infiniti abusi del tosare, et guastare monete, quanto per regolare ogni sorte di pagamenti, et ridurre anco tutto il mondo ad una sola moneta. Reggio: Hercoliano Bartoli, 1582.
2 parts in one volume, 2 (302 x 210mm). Engraved title by Regius Lombardus. Two double-page letterpress tables, further tables in text, all with woodcut arabesque borders. Woodcut historiated and arabesque initials, typographical ornaments. With blanks *6 and L6. (Title and preliminaries slightly stained at outer margin, I2 recto with minor ink stains, B2 of second part torn at upper margin and neatly repaired, some staining to final leaves.) Early limp vellum with title in manuscript at head of spine (recased, new endpapers, covers soiled and affected by creasing, upper cover slightly bowed).
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of the most advanced 16th-century Italian treatise on money, coinage and currency exchange, containing what is perhaps the earliest advocation of a single currency, to be universal in extent. The short second part, entitled Breve instruttione sopra il discorso fatto dal mag. M. Gasparo Scaruffi per regolare le cose delli Danari, has a separate title-page and collation. BL STC Italian p. 617; Goldsmiths' Cat. I, 222.
2 parts in one volume, 2 (302 x 210mm). Engraved title by Regius Lombardus. Two double-page letterpress tables, further tables in text, all with woodcut arabesque borders. Woodcut historiated and arabesque initials, typographical ornaments. With blanks *6 and L6. (Title and preliminaries slightly stained at outer margin, I2 recto with minor ink stains, B2 of second part torn at upper margin and neatly repaired, some staining to final leaves.) Early limp vellum with title in manuscript at head of spine (recased, new endpapers, covers soiled and affected by creasing, upper cover slightly bowed).
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of the most advanced 16th-century Italian treatise on money, coinage and currency exchange, containing what is perhaps the earliest advocation of a single currency, to be universal in extent. The short second part, entitled Breve instruttione sopra il discorso fatto dal mag. M. Gasparo Scaruffi per regolare le cose delli Danari, has a separate title-page and collation. BL STC Italian p. 617; Goldsmiths' Cat. I, 222.