Lot no. 318
Ottoman Empire
Galib Edhem, I.smail
Catalogue des monnaies turcomanes ... Edited by the Ottoman Imperial Museum, Department of Muslim Currencies. With 8 plates, depicting 146 obverse and reverse sides of coins. Constantinople, Mihran (Papazyan), 1894. XVII, (3, genealogical plates), 175 (1) p. 8°. OLn. with gilt stamped DTitl. (Ottoman Turkish) RTit. (French).
Richly illustrated coin catalogue of the Ottoman Imperial Museum. - Catalogue Poinsignon 764 - Rare, for us currently no copy in international trade, only once traceable at auctions in the last 70 years. - Contains 146 coins and medals from Turkish dynasties of antiquity and the Middle Ages. The volume was compiled by the historian and numismatist Ismail Ghalib Edhem (1848-1895), the son of Grand Vizier Ibrahim Edhem Pasha. Printed by the Istanbul Armenian printer Mihran Papazyan, the volume contains 8 plates with excellent reproductions, as well as a list of the inscriptions in Ottoman Turkish and French. - Binding slightly rubbed, plates 1 and 2 as well as some pages with foxing, otherwise a fresh, largely untrimmed and therefore unread copy.
With 8 half-tone plates, depicting 146 front and rear sides of coins and medals. - Scarce, profusely illustrated coin catalogue of the Ottoman Imperial Museum. - Catalogue Poinsignon 764 - Rare, for us currently no copy in international trade, only once traceable at auctions in the last 70 years. - Contains coins and medals from Turkish dynasties of antiquity and the Middle Ages. The volume was compiled by the historian and numismatist Ismail Ghalib Edhem (1848-1895), the son of Grand Vizier Ibrahim Edhem Pasha. - Printed by the Istanbul Armenian printer Mihran Papazyan, the volume contains 8 plates with excellent reproductions, as well as a list of the inscriptions in Ottoman Turkish and French. - Cover4 slightly worn, plates 1 and 2 as well as some pages with foxing, otherwise a fresh, largely unopened and therefore unread copy.
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