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Auction: 14006 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 978

BUDEL, Renier (Roermond) DE MONETIS ET RE NVMARIA LIBRI DVO: QVORVM PRIMVS ARTEM CVDENDAE MONETAE: SECVNDVS VERO QVAESTIONVM MONETARIARVM DECISIONES CONTINET. Coloniae, Ioannem Gymnicum, 1591. 4to. Bound in later full calf with five raised bands, rebacked with title label laid on. Page edges sometime gilt but now rather dull. Undated manuscript note to first free leaf possibly in the hand o Rogers Ruding whose armorial bookplate graces the front endpaper together with the bookplate of John Trotter Brockett F.S.A., both of them were noted numismatists and antiquaries.
The binding is rather scuffed and the corners worn but very solid and still attractive, internally a fine and clean copy. (76), 798 pp.
(As usual with the typopgraphical errors: pp. 139, 234, 267,353, 685, 768 are numbered as 339, 202, 263, 343, 645, 778. These errors are to be found in all published copies. See Dekesel B160).

A scarce copy of this first edition of one of the earliest - and most important - works on coinage, dealing with weights and measures, as well as the value and devaluation of money. Apart from the seminal original contribution of Budel, this extensive work contains 29 contributions by earlier philosophers and theologians on the subject. De Monetis et re numaria remained the standard work on the subject for almost two centuries.

Budel (1530-91), was a practitioner, a jurist by training, who worked as diplomat for the archbishop of Cologne, and later as mint-master in Westphalia for the duke of Bavaria.

Dekesel B160; Goldsmith 254; Einaudi 737; Adams 3153

Sold for
£260