[Greece]. - Lot 9

[Greece]. FROELICH, Erasmus. Annales Compendiarii regum, & rerum Syriee, numis veteribus illustrati, deducti ab obitu Alexandri Magni, ad Cn. Pompeji in Syriem adventum [...] Editio altera. Cui accessere notae compendiariae et monogrammata numismatum Graecorum. Vienna, Leopold Joannes Kaliwoda and Augustinus Bernardus, 1754. In folio. (12)-92-158-(10) pp. with title in red and black; handsome headband, historiated lettrines and xylographed cul-de-lampe in black. Contemporary glazed tortoiseshell calf, triple gilt fillets framing the boards, ribbed spine decorated with gilt flowered boxes, red morocco title-piece, gilt title, double-gilt fillet on the edges, red speckled edges, marbled paper endpapers (slight wear to a nerve and to the upper corners, upper jaw rubbed, small lateral loss to the false-title, small angular wetness to the first few pages, a few light freckles). Fine engraved frontispiece by Leopold Schmitner (1703-1761) with portrait of Maria Theresa of Austria. Complete with large copper-engraved folding map in black, centered on the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East, and 22 plates of numismatic etchings in black (2 of which are unnumbered). A good copy in its contemporary binding. Withdrawal of the second edition (in 1750) on the Seleucid Empire by the Austrian historian and scholar Erasmus Froelich (1700-1758), based on his numismatic research from the death of Alexander the Great to the arrival of Pompey. Sommervogel, III, 1020, 9.