Numismatics - Commentatio de Numo Hadriani Plumbeo et Gemma Isiaca in Funere Aegyptii Medicato by Julius Carolus Schlaeger - 1742

Helmstedt Lower Saxony Germany: Ex Officina Drimborniana, 1742. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Title translates as "Commentary on the Leaden Statue of Hadrian and the Isiac Gem Found in the Funeral of the Egyptian" This is a first edition of the study dealing with a lead coin and an Asiatic Gem found in an Egyptian burial. Julius Charles Schlaeger examines the history of Egypt and the cult of Isis to whom the gem is dedicated. Written in Latin, this scholarly study is of particular value to numismatists and contains a number of copper plate illustrations in the text. Schlaeger was an antiquary and numismatist who was the director of the library and medal cabinet of the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha (with acknowledgements to Alde auction house France). A very good copy in full leather, rebacked, with the label on the front pastedown of the Coryton Loan Collection and a penciled note on ffep "from ALB waste paper ca 1948". Top hinge weak but holding. ( Hilmy II, p.219). Occasional tiny burn marks without loss of text (detritus from pipe smoking)?

This is a first edition of the study dealing with a lead coin and an Asiatic Gem found in an Egyptian burial. Uncommon and of interest to the serious numismatist.