HAGER (Joseph). Description des médailles chinoises du Cabin - Lot 91

HAGER (Joseph). Description des médailles chinoises du Cabinet impérial de France, précédée d'un Essai de numismatique chinoise. A Paris, de l'Imprimerie Impériale, An XIII - 1805. In-4, [4] f. (including the author's dedication to Napoleon), [XVI]-188 p., pl. period red boards, gilt title and roulette on spine, untrimmed, full margins, spine restored in cloth (light rubbing on boards, corners rubbed, light wetness from beginning to p. XVI and from p. 73 to p. 156). Important study on Chinese coins, based on the Imperial Cabinet collection, accompanied by a catalog of 64 coins from this collection. The author devotes an essay to trade between ancient Greece and China via the Silk Road. The illustrations include a folding map of the Silk Road, by Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage and engraved by Niquet, a plate showing a vase of water lily flowers in white yu, and a few figures in the text, including ideograms.