[Numismatics] Goltzius, H.-M. & G. Laurinus. C. Iulius Caesar sive historiae imperatorum Caesarumque Romanorum

ex antiquis numismatibus restitutae liber primus (...). Bruges, Officina Goltziana, 1563. 1st ed. (32),LVIII,VI,232,(48) p. Engr. title-p., engr. printer's mark on final p., 540 copper engr. ills. of coins and medals on 57 full-p. plates, woodcut initials, text lined/ ruled throughout. 17th cent. full calf (worn), gilt spine. Sm. folio.

Browned. A fine 16th century work; one of the first books printed in the Low Countries to use copperplate engravings. The coins w. portraits of historical Roman figures, incl. a.o. Caesar, Lepidus, Brutus and Marcus Antonius. Brunet II, 1653; Adams G 829; Funck 323; Belgica Typografica vol. I, 1294, not in vol. II.; Bibliotheca Belgica III, p. 246/7, item G 385.