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    25 February 1998

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    Lot 281

    [NUMISMATICS]. LINDSAY, JOHN. A View of the History and Coinage of the Parthians, with descriptive Catalogues and Tables. London, 1852. 12 plates. 4to, contemporary vellum; scattered light foxing, library stamp on title. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed and signed by Lindsay on front free endpaper -- FOY-VAILLANT, JEAN. Seleucidarum Imperium, sive historia regum Syriae, ad fidem numismatum accommodata... Paris, 1732. Folio, old half calf over marbled boards, light wear to spine and edges -- BERGER, L. De nummis cretensium serpentiferis disquisition antiquaria qua cretensium ab Asia... Berlin, 1702; [ANON.]. Colloquii quorundam de tribus primis thesauri antiquitatum Graecarum... N.p., 1702; SCHLAEGER, CARL JULIUS. Dissertatio Epistolaris... Hamburg, 1735. 3 works in one volume, 4to, contemporary sheep with central gilt coat-of-arms on both covers, some wear to spine ends and rubbing to lower cover. Three old library stamps on title. (3)

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    [NUMISMATICS]. LINDSAY, JOHN. A View of the History and Coinage of the Parthians, with descriptive Catalogues and Tables. London, 1852. 12 plates. 4to, contemporary vellum; scattered light foxing, library stamp on title. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed and signed by Lindsay on front free endpaper -- FOY-VAILLANT, JEAN. Seleucidarum Imperium, sive historia regum Syriae, ad fidem numismatum accommodata... Paris, 1732. Folio, old half calf over marbled boards, light wear to spine and edges -- BERGER, L. De nummis cretensium serpentiferis disquisition antiquaria qua cretensium ab Asia... Berlin, 1702; [ANON.]. Colloquii quorundam de tribus primis thesauri antiquitatum Graecarum... N.p., 1702; SCHLAEGER, CARL JULIUS. Dissertatio Epistolaris... Hamburg, 1735. 3 works in one volume, 4to, contemporary sheep with central gilt coat-of-arms on both covers, some wear to spine ends and rubbing to lower cover. Three old library stamps on title. (3)

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