Fröhlich, Erasmus, SJ. Annales compendiarii regum, & rerum Syriae, numis veteribus illustrati, deducti ad obitu Alexandri Magni [...]. Editio altera cui accessere notae compendiariae et monogrammata numismatum Graecorum.

€ 400.00

Re-issue of the 1750 second edition of this investigation of the Seleucid Empire, based on numismatic studies (first published in 1744). It embroiled the author, the Jesuit Erasmus Fröhlich (1700-58), in a literary and theological feud with the Leipzig scholar Gottlieb Wernsdorf (cf. ADB).

With splendid engraved frontispiece by Franz Leopold Schmitner (1703-61) and additional engravings by the Augsburg artist Salomon Kleiner (1700-61). Severe dampstaining, interior stained and wavy; some mildew. This edition not in the Austrian National Library.