Shelfmark
Am.7.10(02)
Author
Uniform title
[Liber de nummis]
Title
Johannis Seldeni Angli liber de nummis. In quo antiqua pecunia Romana & Græca metitur precio ejus, quæ nunc est in usu. Huic accedit Bibliotheca nummaria, sive elenchus auctorum, qui de antiquis numismatibus, Hebræis, Græcis, Romanis; necnon de monetis, ponderibus, & mensuris, ad hunc usque annum scripserunt.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Londini : Prostant venales apud Mosem Pitt, 1675.
Physical description
[7], 19, [1], 86p ; 4to.
Note
Previously Dc.6.16, Dc.7.16, and Be.6.13.
Note
A literary imposture. Actually a reissue of Sardi's 1579 ed. of "Liber de nummis ..." under Selden's name.
With note
[Bound with:] Hephaestion "Peri metreon kai poiematon ..." (transliterated from the Greek), 1553.
Citation/references note
Wing S688
Provenance
Label recording bequest to Eton by Nicholas Mann in 1754.
Binding
18th century blind-stamped calf.
Subject
Numismatics, Greek Early works to 1800.
Subject
Numismatics, Roman Early works to 1800.
Subject
Weights and measures Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Selden, John, 1584 - 1654 Liber de nummis.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B11312