BUDELIUS, DE MONETIS, COLOGNE, 1591

FIRST EDITION, 4to (230 x 170mm.), woodcut device on title, 2 divisional titles, leaf before text with large woodcut heraldic device, woodcut diagrams, contemporary limp vellum, yapp edges, morocco-backed slipcase and chemise, slight dampstaining towards end

Tomash & Williams B287; Dekesel B160; Goldsmiths’ 254; USTC 628709; VD16 B9111

Bibliotheca Colbertina, inscription on title, sale, Paris, 1728, lot 11557; Arthur Hugh Smith Barry, 1st Baron Barrymore (1843-1925), Marbury Hall, armorial bookplate; Robert B. Honeyman (1897-1987), book label, sale in these rooms, 31 October 1978, lot 540, Dr Paul C. Martin, £420; sale in these rooms, 26 November 1987, lot 112, £750, Erwin Tomash

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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“This is the first edition of a well-known massive work on the history of economics with particular emphasis on the history of money and coinage” (Tomash & Williams). Budel was the director of the Bavarian mint.