Annales compendiarii regum, & rerum Syriae, numis veteribus illustrati, deducti ad obitu Alexandri Magni [...]. Editio altera cui accessere notae compendiariae et monogrammata numismatum Graecorum.
Folio. (12), 92 pp. With engraved frontispiece, 22 engraved plates and one engraving in the text. 19th century half cloth.
$447.00
Re-issue of the 1750 second edition of this investigation of the Seleucid Empire, based on numismatic studies (first published in 1744). It embroiled the author, the Jesuit Erasmus Fröhlich (1700-58), in a literary and theological feud with the Leipzig scholar Gottlieb Wernsdorf (cf. ADB).
With splendid engraved frontispiece by Franz Leopold Schmitner (1703-61) and additional engravings by the Augsburg artist Salomon Kleiner (1700-61). Severe dampstaining, interior stained and wavy; some mildew. This edition not in the Austrian National Library.
De Backer/Sommervogel III, 1020, 9. For Kaliwoda cf. Durstmüller I, 235.