Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 3006. Estimate $100.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $80. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

(Haagen, J.G.F. von). Beschreibung der Silber-Münzen des Wohllöblichen Freyen Reichs-Stadt Nürnberg. (Nürnberg, 1766). (3), frontispiece, xiv, 148, (2). Frontispiece of arms of Nürnberg, over 69 individual woodcuts of coins within the text. Text in old German. Early marbled vellum covers. Numerous hand-written notes, in ink and pencil in the margins of the pages. Quarto. Lipsius, pg. 168. Fair condition, covers tattered, broken at top of spine, one page torn and repaired with cellophane tape. ($100)

Purchased from Dr. Busso Peus, 27 May 1946; from the library of Martin de Reider, Bamberg, 1835.