Very Rare Medals Of The United Provinces Of The Netherlands 1736
Very rare: historical explanation of the main medals frapees to serve the history of the united provinces of the Netherlands: second edition - by jean the cleric - 1736. Very rare: historical explanation of the main medals frapées to serve the history of the united provinces of netherlands: second edition - by jean le clerc - 1736. Here is a magnificent large atlas of numismatics that will interest the amateur of historical medals of Europe from the fifteenth to the beginning of the eighteenth century. Through this remarkable work dedicated to the United Provinces of the Netherlands, it is indeed the entire European history of this era that is concerned. We will appreciate the exceptional quality of the engravings and the fascinating explanations that accompany them.
As the author puts it: "What makes most metal stories so thin is that we simply report the opportunity that gave rise to the medal, and simply translate the legend, the motto, or the inscription which one reads there, without putting oneself in trouble to explain the symbolic figures found there, to make note of its attributes, and to apply them to the subject in question: which is the true spirit of the medals. A defect which the author had no difficulty in escaping, considering the extent of his erudition! Historical explanation of the main medals fraped to serve the history of the United Provinces of the Netherlands where we find a continuation of about two centuries and a half, included in more than 400 medals; that is, the history of the United Provinces since the end of the fifteenth century that the Netherlands passed from the house of burgundy to that of austria, until the treaty of barrier concluded in 1716.
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