Principal numismatic work

Castiglioni, C[arlo] O[ttavio]. Memoire geographique et numismatique sur la partie orientale de la Barbarie appellée Afrikia par les Arabes, suivi de recherches sur les Berbères atlantiques anciens habitans de ces contrées.

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Only edition.

"His principal work in the department of Oriental literature [...] in which the origin and history of those cities of Barbary of which the names occur upon Arabic coins are detailed" (Men of the Time [1868], p. 161). The Italian classicist and numismatist C. O. Castiglioni (1784-1849) was descended from Baldassare Castiglione, author of "Il Cortegiano". This work established his reputation.

Old shelfmark label on wrappers. Some slight brownstaining. An untrimmed, wide-margined copy.