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PELLERIN. J. |
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Recueil de Medailles de peuples et de villes qui n’ont point encore ete publiees ou qui sont peu connues. Paris 1763-1767 |
| Description |
Tome premier; contenant les medailles d’Europe. Paris,
Guerin et Delatour, 1763. Quarto, engraved vignette on title page; pp. (xxviii), 208, Additions
et Corrections, (2); finely-engraved head and tailpieces; 37 folding engraved plates.
Recueil de Medailles……Tome second, contenant les medailles d’Asie. Paris, Guerin et
Delatour, 1763. Quarto, engraved vignette on title page; finely-engraved head and tailpieces;
pp. xviii, (i); 255*, (i); Addenda/Corrigenda leaf (i); folding engraved plates (38) – 85.
Recueil de Medailles….Tome troisieme, contenant les medailles d’Afrique, des Iles;
medailles incertaines; Phoeniciennes, Puniques, en Caracteres inconnus; avec un supplement.
Paris, Guerin et Delatour, 1763. Quarto; engraved vignette on title page; pp. liv, 288; addenda
leaf, (i); engraved headings and tailpieces; folding engraved plates (86) – 136. Recueil de Medailles des rois, qui n’ont point encore ete publiees ou qui sont peu connues.
Paris, Guerin et Delatour, 1762. Quarto; engraved vignette on title page; pp. iv, 220;
engraved head and tailpieces; 22 folding engraved plates.Recueil de Medailles….Melanges de Diverses Medailles, pour servir de supplement aux Recueils des Medailles de Rois et de Villes. Tome Premier. I. Medailles detachees. II. Medailles Imperiales en or, en argent et en bronze. III. Medailles de Colonies qui manquent dans Vaillant, avec des observations sur celles qu’il a publiees. Paris, Guerin et Delatour,1765. Quarto, engraved vignette on title page; engraved head and tailpieces; pp. (ii); 356; 24 folding engraved plates; separate title pages to Parts II and III at pages 159 and 239, each dated 1764; leaf of Additions and Corrections at pages 353/4. Melanges et Diverses Medailles… Tome second. Medailles Imperiales Grecques qui manquent dans Vaillant…..Paris, Guerin et Delatour, 1765. Quarto, engraved vignette on title page, engraved head and tail pieces, pp. (ii), 376; folding engraved plates (25) – 32. Melanges et Diverses Medailles….Supplement aux six volumes de Recueil des Medailles. Paris, Guerin et Delatour, 1765. Quarto; engraved vignette on title page; engraved heading and tailpieces; pp. xii, 70; 2 folding engraved plates. BOUND WITH: Second supplement aux six volumes. Paris, Delatour, 1766. Quarto, engraved vignette on title page; engraved heading; pp. viii, 200; 10 folding engraved plates. Melanges et Diverses Medailles….Troisieme supplement aux six volumes. Paris, Delatour, 1767. Quarto, engraved vignette on title page; engraved heading; pp. viii, 136; 6 folding engraved plates. BOUND WITH: Quatrieme et dernier supplement aux six volumes. Paris, Delatour, 1767. Quarto, engraved vignette on title page; engraved headings; pp. viii, 136; 3 folding engraved plates.
Uniformly bound in contemporary tan speckled calf, in eight volumes, raised bands, red morocco title labels, gilt, each spine decorated in gilt; minor wear at extremities; red speckled page edges; marbled endpapers. Apart from some minor staining on endpapers, and minimal spotting in places, internally an exceptionally fine clean and fresh set of books, with the 238 beautifully and sensitively engraved plates in particularly crisp and clean state. Without the three additional volumes occasionally offered for sale.
Brunet IV 473; Graesse V, 189; Lipsius p. 310 and 48.
See: Babelon: Ancient Numismatics and its History. Kolbe/Spink, 2004. (Translated by
Elizabeth Saville) - pages 118-120 for a complete list of Pellerin’s works. Pellerin’s
collection numbered some 35,000 Greek coins, and was purchased by Louis XV for the
enormous sum of 300,000 livres.
Joseph Pellerin, 1684-1782. For many years was employed in the Department of the
Maritime Ministry, from where he retired as Commissioner-General in 1745. During his
retirement he devoted himself to studying ancient coins. His huge collection of some 35,500
coins was purchased by King Louis XV for the enormous sum of 300,000 livres. For the last
few years of his long life he was struck by blindness. He was the first to classify Greek coins
in geographical order rather than alphabetically, thus paving the way for Eckhel, and in many
ways should be regarded as his forerunner. His “Melanges” is a monumental work, seldom
found complete, and is very rarely offered for sale. The present set lacks the three additional volumes- the Lettres, the Additions and the Observations, but it is nevertheless a beautiful set of books and has the advantage of having a truly distinctive provenance, coming from one of the leading numismatic scholars of the 20th century.
Complete sets of Pellerin’s monumental work are notoriously rare, particularly in such
superior condition, as here. The quality of the engraved plates in the work has been praised
by many, not least by one of the foremost English numismatists of the latter years of the 18th
and early 19th centuries:
“These volumes chiefly contain coins never before published and are justly held in high
esteem. I believe it is to M. Pellerin that we are indebted for the first plates of medals,
perfectly representing the originals in every flow and irregularity of edge and
impression……and makes the view of such plates almost equal to that of the coins
themselves.” John Pinkerton.
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