STRADA'S COLLECTION OF COINS, Epitome du thresor des antiques, LYON 1553.

STREET, JACOPO (JACQUES DE). Epitome du thresor des antiquitez, c'est e dire, portraits des vrayes medailles des E. M. P. P. Tant d'Orient que d'Occident. De l'estude fra Iacques de Strada Mantuan Antiquaire. Translated by Iean Louveau d'Orleans. Lyon [Jean de Tournes for] Jacopo Strada and Thomas Guerin, (2 December) 1553.
Large 8vo (c. 2298x155 mm., binding). Novel type, 37 lines plus headline. (24), 394, (30) pp. Woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut armorial of the dedicatee (Johann Jakob Fugger von Kirchberg und Weissenhorn) on verso of title, woodcut initials, 485 woodcut medallion portraits and coins by Bernard Salomon.
Renovated full leather binding, partly worn and rubbed, boards with gilt frame, redspeckled edges, renovated spine with red label and compartments, marbled endpapers, partly split inner joints, last endpaper cut short. Some pencil notes on first free endpaper, endpapers reinforced. Bookplate of the Rev [erend]. W [illiam]. Gunn, Smallburgh, Norfolk (1750-1841, author and architect). Title with some slight notes to the margin. Some slight browning and spotting to text. Portraits de medallion numéro en inkt.

Jacopo Strada (1507-1588), antiquary of Mantua who worked as agent and advisor for the Fuggers of Augsburg, various Habsburgs including Rudolf II, and Albrecht V of Bavaria.
Deze beschrijving van zijn koinen en medalen was gebaseerd op de werken van Andrea Fulvio en Johann Huttich. Dedicatee was a correspondent of Cardinal Perrenot de Granvelle, and the privilege is signed by Thomas Mahieu, putting this work firmly in the orbit of the most eminent book collectors of the time.

First French edition. Título original Latín je prítulo, prítulo anterior no mesmo, Jean de Tournes.

Provenance: Sven Borgström was born in Malmö in 1927 and worked as a chemist in Stockholm, Malmö and Lund. His fine library, which was built up over many years, consists mainly of older books dated from the 16th century to the late 18th century.
His book-collecting began, as it perhaps should, with an incunabula. Borgström's interests included printers, book bindings, book illustrations, and he was interested in history, travel and maps. As a result of previous coin collecting, the subject of numismatics was also of interest in his library. Sven Borgström died 95 years old.Show more

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