Numismatics. Two works of DELFICO.
DELFICO, Melchiorre. Della antica numismatica della città di Atri. Napoli, Angelo Trani, 1826
In folio, 385x230 mm; brossura editoriale. Pp. [8]; 82. Marca tipografica al frontespizio. 2 carte di tavola incise in rame f.t. Il nome dell'A. dall'imprim. Leggere ma diffuse fioriture. Buon esemplare ad ampi margini e in barbe.
Legato con: DELFICO, Melchiorre. Delle antiche ghiande missili di piombo. Lettera a s.e. il signor conte d. Giuseppe Zurlo.Pp. 33, [3]. 1 carta di tavola incisa in rame f.t.
Condition Report: In folio, 385x230 mm; publisher binding. Pp. [8]; 82. Printer’s device on titlepage. Two copper plates. Spread but slight foxing. Good uncut copy with wide margins.
Bound with: DELFICO, Melchiorre. Delle antiche ghiande missili di piombo. Lettera a s.e. il signor conte d. Giuseppe Zurlo.
Pp. 33, [3]. One plate engraved on copper.
Second encreased edition. Very important work in the archaeological debate of the time, which aroused attention and controversy, also because it took up reasons of historical and historiographic criticism already carried out in previous writings in vindication of the autochthony and pre-Roman antiquity of Italic cities such as Atri, and of their flourishing mercantile civilization organized in free political institutions. Soon the first edition was sold out, a new one was provided (Naples 1826) enriched by various additions, including the essay Of the ancient acorns lead missiles, found in the territory of Ascoli.The "acorns-missiles" were the bullets used by the ancients and are commonly called glandes. Ovoid in shape, pointed at one or both ends, they were made of various materials: terracotta (glandes latericiae), bronze or copper alloys and, more commonly, lead (glandes plumbeae). They could be launched with catapults or, more often, by hand by specialized soldiers called funditores or slingers through the rotation of a branch, made with a flexible band. Evidence of the use of fronds can be found in Greece as early as the fifth century BC. (Thucydides 6, 69, 2) and became more frequent starting from the Hellenistic age.
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DELFICO, Melchiorre. Della antica numismatica della città di Atri. Napoli, Angelo Trani, 1826
In folio, 385x230 mm; brossura editoriale. Pp. [8]; 82. Marca tipografica al frontespizio. 2 carte di tavola incise in rame f.t. Il nome dell'A. dall'imprim. Leggere ma diffuse fioriture. Buon esemplare ad ampi margini e in barbe.
Legato con: DELFICO, Melchiorre. Delle antiche ghiande missili di piombo. Lettera a s.e. il signor conte d. Giuseppe Zurlo.Pp. 33, [3]. 1 carta di tavola incisa in rame f.t.
Condition Report: In folio, 385x230 mm; publisher binding. Pp. [8]; 82. Printer’s device on titlepage. Two copper plates. Spread but slight foxing. Good uncut copy with wide margins.
Bound with: DELFICO, Melchiorre. Delle antiche ghiande missili di piombo. Lettera a s.e. il signor conte d. Giuseppe Zurlo.
Pp. 33, [3]. One plate engraved on copper.
Second encreased edition. Very important work in the archaeological debate of the time, which aroused attention and controversy, also because it took up reasons of historical and historiographic criticism already carried out in previous writings in vindication of the autochthony and pre-Roman antiquity of Italic cities such as Atri, and of their flourishing mercantile civilization organized in free political institutions. Soon the first edition was sold out, a new one was provided (Naples 1826) enriched by various additions, including the essay Of the ancient acorns lead missiles, found in the territory of Ascoli.The "acorns-missiles" were the bullets used by the ancients and are commonly called glandes. Ovoid in shape, pointed at one or both ends, they were made of various materials: terracotta (glandes latericiae), bronze or copper alloys and, more commonly, lead (glandes plumbeae). They could be launched with catapults or, more often, by hand by specialized soldiers called funditores or slingers through the rotation of a branch, made with a flexible band. Evidence of the use of fronds can be found in Greece as early as the fifth century BC. (Thucydides 6, 69, 2) and became more frequent starting from the Hellenistic age.
