New Müntz Buech
Subtitle: darinnen allerley gross vunnd kleine, silberne vnd guldene Sorten, vmb wichtiger Vrsach willen also fürgestelt werden, vnd erstlich der Römischen Kayserlichen vnd Königlichen Mayestat ... : darneben auch bäpstlicher Heiligkeit vnd der König in Hispanien, Portugal ... : dann auch der Italianischen Fürsten ...
Publisher: Bey Adam Berg
Published: 1604
Place of publication: Gedruckt zu München
Language: ger
Number of pages: 80
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Numismatics; European Coins
Other titles: NewMüntzBuech; New Müntzbuch von allerley Sorten; Dialogus oder Gespräch zwischen dem Gelt und der Armut.; Kurtzer Extract der Müntzsorten, deren im Alten und Newen Testament gedacht wirdt.
Notes: First published 1597.

Two sections at end have special t.p.'s: "Ein Dialogus oder Gespräch zwischen dem Gelt vnd der Armut"; and "Ein kurtzer Extract der Müntzsorten, deren im Alten vnd Newen Testament gedacht wirdt."

Woodcut t.p. vignette of obverse and reverse of two coins. Leaves 2-80 are chiefly devoted to woodcut ill. of coins, labelled in letterpress. Head- and tail-pieces, decorated initials.

Signatures: (:)⁸ A-M⁶ N-O⁴ Aa-Bb⁶ a-b⁶. Leaf (:)8 blank.

Errata, leaf 80r.

Binding: old red vellum. Holes for 2 pairs of ties at foredge. Page edges blue.

In Getty copy some of the illustrated coins have been colored red or yellow. Two engraved leaves of coins, not part of the present work, have been bound in after leaf 26. The first (28.6 x 20.2 cm.) is headed "Tab. 11" and bears figures 24-33. The second (16.5 x 10.6 cm.) bears fig. 5. In addition, a slip of paper (12 x 9.4 cm.) has been loosely inserted; it bears rubbings of the obverse and reverse of a coin, with hand-written notes in Dutch (truncated at right).

At either side of title proper is ownership inscription of Joannes Casparus Kauffmann, dated 1741. To the left of the imprint is another inscription: Lilientals / Taler-Cabinet / S. 476. / Jakobs Sammlung S. 16. / Gudeni Uncialaeum S. 9. A third inscription, at the foot of the t.p., has been scratched out.