Produced by Rizzo with Magnificent Plates

Pennisi, Agostino, and Giulio Emanuele Rizzo. SICILIAE VETERES NUMMI. Acireale: Collezione Pennisi di Floristella, 1940. 8vo, original printed card covers. 41, (7) pages; 5 remarkably fine fototipie plates of coins. Hand-lettered spine; very good or better. A most attractively designed and printed publication, issued under the aegis of Giulio Emanuele Rizzo, that peerless Mediterranean arbiter of superb typography. Rare. The copy in our most recent sale sold for $1900 hammer.