Italy. Veneto. Lazari, V. Le monete dei possedimente veneziani di Oltremare e di Terraferma. Venezia; A. Santini e Figlio Tipografi-Editori, 1851. 8vo., title page with neat, central vignette, pp. viii, 179, (1), 14 wonderful lithographic plates, with sixteen pages of neat manuscript notes bound in at the end, listing a collection of Italian medieval coins by city state. Bound in half morocco and cloth boards, gilt. Heavily rubbed and worn, particularly to the spine, the contents mostly clean with only some light browning. From the library of Arturo Cuzzi with his ink library stamp on the title page. The original copy of this interesting and rarely offered work, with an attractive provenance.
Arturo Cuzzi was a noted collector as well as a keen amateur photographer. His substantial collection of ancient, Italian and medieval coins and numismatic books was sold in two parts by Baranowsky in 1929, see lots 1700–1702. Ciferri p. 252. Clain-Stefanelli 10443. Gnecchi p. 402. Leitzmann p. 74.