Serrure, Notice sur le cabinet coinire de SA le Prince de Ligne, 1st ed. + II ed., 2 vols.

CP Serrure, Notice sur le cabinet coinire de SA le Prince de Ligne d'Amblise et d'Epinot, Imprimerie de C. Annoot-Braeckman, Ghent 1847, First edition, pp. X, 444, 5 splendid plates. engraved by Onghena, one of which with a second finely crafted frontispiece placed between the eyelet and the frontispiece, one with noble coats of arms, two with medals and coins, one with the circumferences used for measuring the diameters of the coins, 21 cm, br . and.

In addition: CP Serrure, Notice sur le cabinet coinire de SA le Prince de Ligne d'Amblise et d'Epinot, Imprimerie de C. Annoot-Braeckman, Ghent 1880, Second edition, pp. LXXX, 267, 6 splendid plates. engraved by Onghena, one of which with a second finely crafted frontispiece placed between the eyelet and the frontispiece, one with a beautiful lithographic portrait of Serrure, three with medals and coins, one with noble coats of arms, 21 cm, br. and.

The two volumes were published as first and second editions of the same work, however they deal with different topics and complement each other, providing a historically complete picture of the numismatic collection of the Prince de Ligne from antiquity to the Middle Ages. The first features coins from the medieval era. The second, which probably should have been the first volume of a larger work of which no other volumes are known, describes ancient and medieval coins.

Overall in excellent condition. Very rare set.