Sale 688: Rare Books & Manuscripts - Alcoholics Anonymous - Miniature Books (#688) 11/21/2019 11:00 AM PST CLOSED!

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Lot 175 of 338:
Gallatin's Syracusan Dekadrachms, 1930  

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Title:
Syracusan Dekadrachms of the Euainetos Type

Author:
Gallatin, Albert

Place:
Cambridge, MA

Publisher:
Harvard University Press

Date:
1930

Description:

[4], 53, [3] pp. With frontispiece and 12 additional numismatic plates. 31.6x24 cm (12½x9½"), blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine. First Edition. 

"Sir Arthur Evans in his Syracusan Medallions and their Engravers discusses with vivid imagination the life and activities of the two most celebrated die-cutters of antiquity, Euainetos and Kimon...In this book I have attempted to illustrate all the known varieties of the Syracusan dekadrachms which bear the signature of Euainetos..." -from introduction.


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Condition:
Light rubbing with some soiling and dampstaining to cloth; light dampstaining to front free endpaper and frontispiece; very good.


 
Item number:
311612
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