Jean-Michel BENAVEN
Le Caissier italien, ou L'Art de connoistre toutes les monnoies actuelles d'Italieainsi que celles de tous les Etats et princes de l'Europe, qui y ont cours. Avec le détail des productions de l'Italie, les usages pour les lettres de change, la manière de faire les payements, les poids, mesures, et autres objets relatifs au commerce[The Italian Cashier, or The Art of Recognizing All the Current Coins of Italy; together with those of all the States and Princes of Europe circulating there. With a detailed account of the productions of Italy, the practices concerning bills of exchange, the methods of making payments, the weights, measures, and other matters relating to commerce]
s. n.|Lyon 1787|24.7 x 39.5 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition. Quérard I, 271 lists only one edition: "Paris, Née de La Rochelle, 1789." Kress B.1163; Goldsmiths 13858. Not in Einaudi."
With loose printed title pages for each volume, dated 1789.
The first volume, with an engraved pictorial title after Meunier, contains 52 double-page or folding plates inserted into the pagination, without following its numbering logic.
The second volume has an engraved pictorial title by Zaveris after Meunier and includes 154 etched plates of coins.
Full mottled calf, spines with six raised bands, gilt fillets and double gilt panels, red morocco lettering-pieces, green morocco numbering-pieces, gilt rolls on
€2,500