NUMISMATICS -- STRADA, Jacobus de (1515-1588). Epitome thesauri antiquitatum. Zurich: Andreas Gesner, 1557. 8° (191 x 125mm). Printer's device on title, numerous white-on-black woodcuts by Rudolf Manuel Deutsch and Rudolf Wyssenbach. (Title soiled and margins a little browned, some mainly light marginal browning and soiling of text.) Contemporary vellum, stamped in black (soiled, stained, lacking ties, new spine label, final blank partly torn away). Provenance: numerous old manuscript annotations throughout -- presentation inscription on front blank -- Thomas Hodgkin, Newcastle upon Tyne (bookplate).