[Numismatics/Rome] Erizzo, Sebastiano: Discourse by M. Sebastiano Erizzo. On the medals of the ancients. With a declaration of the consular coins and the medals of the Roman emperors. Venice, Gio. Varisco & Paganino Paganini Fourth expanded edition [ca. 1585]

Format in-8°, mm. 205x155, pp. (16), 282, (2), 572. Complete. Contemporary full leather binding with handwritten titles on the back spine. Red edges to the pages. Defects and peeling on the boards and spine, front board partially detached. Small marginal woodworm damage, with minimal defects. Clear text, occasional foxing. Woodcut frontispiece. Woodcut initials, woodcut endpieces. Numerous figures engraved in the text depicting medals and coins.

Title: Discourse by M. Sebastiano Erizzo. On the medals of the ancients. With a description of the consular coins and the medals of the Roman emperors. In which is contained a full and varied knowledge of the history of those times. Again in this fourth edition by the same author revised and expanded. In Venice, by Gio. Varisco and Paganino Paganini [dated about 1585. ICCU, cf. BM STC Italian, 1465-1600 p. 237. The first edition in 1559]. Work of the Italian numismatist Sebastiano Erizzo (1525-1563). Edited by Girolamo Ruscelli, whose name appears in the preface.