Green’s Massive 1829 Numismatic Atlas

Green, Benjamin Richard. ATLAS NUMISMATIQUE DE L’HISTOIRE ANCIENNE: EN VINGT-ET-UNE PLANCHES. CONTENANT UN CHOIX DE 360 MÉDAILLES GRECQUES, DE ROIS, PLACÉES EN ORDRE CHRONOLOGIQUE, DEPUIS L’ÉPOQUE LA PLUS RECULÉE JUSQU’AU COMMENCEMENT DU QUATRIÈME SIÈCLE. TIRÉES DES OUVRAGES DE PELLERIN, DUANE, VISCONTI, COMBE, MIONNET, &C. Paris: Chez Treuttel et Würtz, 1829. Folio [46 by 32 cm], original printed card covers with later reinforcement at spine. Printed title; dedication leaf, ii, 30 pages; leaf of tables; hand-colored plate of the “Grandeur et Valeur des Monnaies Grecques”; hand-colored plate of the “Abrégé de l’Atlas Numismatique”; 20 handsome hand-colored lithographic plates of coins with descriptive text printed on thick stock. Covers somewhat discolored. Housed in a modern linen-backed folder with blue morocco cover and spine labels, gilt. Near fine. A well-preserved copy of this rare work, complete and vibrantly colored. Green was a well-known watercolor painter, and published his remarkable Atlas when he was only twenty-one years old. Leitzmann 50.