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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Voulgaroktonou, post: 3693903, member: 84047&quot;]Although I have been in my job as bibliographer for 4 decades, from time to time I run across books in our library I have not seen. Given that our collection approaches 300,000 volumes, perhaps this can be forgiven me. Last week while browsing our rare book stacks I “discovered” the following, a 1615 Frankfurt publication by Octavius de Strada, of the biographies of the rulers of the western and eastern Roman empires, along with their wives and children. </p><p><br /></p><p>Author&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Strada, Octavius de, a Rosberg</p><p>Title&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; De vitis imperatorum et caesarum romanorum, tam occidentalium quam orientalium, nec non uxorum et liberorum eorum ... inde à C. Julio Caesare, primo monarcha, usque ad D.N. imperatorem, caesarem Matthiam ..</p><p>Published&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Francofurti ad Moenum, Imprimebat Johannes Bringerus, 1615</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]989827[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>While it will not be my “go to” book, many of the numismatic illustrations are utterly charming, if at times a little weird. Cf. my example of Sear 1693, a follis of Michael III with the illustration of that ruler in de Strada&#039;s book. My coin is DO 8. It is 9.11 gr. 27 mm. hr. 6, and ex Hunt coll., Sotheby&#039;s Dec. 5-6, 1990, lot 476.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]989839[/ATTACH] </p><p>As a librarian, I guess I should proffer books that are actually edifying. Instead, another book I re-read every few years is anything but: Paul S. Szego&#039;s <u>Collecting Greek Coins</u>, (NY: Wayte Raymond, Inc, 1937). It&#039;s a delightfully written, somewhat naive essay, that in several passages could cause it to be banned from some public libraries. I will say no more on this, so as to tempt would be readers to try to find a copy!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]989840[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>My main interest being in later Roman and in particular, in Byzantine coins, for me, the Dumbarton Oaks catalogs provide a continual source of knowledge and pleasure.</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="6"><u>Catalogue of the Byzantine coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection</u>. Alfred Bellinger (v. 1); Philip Grierson (vols. 2-3, 5); Michael Hendy (v. 4). Washington: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1992 – 1999, c. 1966-1973.&nbsp; </font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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