[Numismatics]. EDICT ET REGLEMENT... sur le cours & prix - Lot 101

[Numismatics]. EDICT ET REGLEMENT... sur le cours & prix des monnoyes tant de France qu'estrangères. With the letter sent to M. le bailly de Rouen... par la Cour des Monnoyes. Leue & publié à Rouen le 12 mars 1636. A Rouen, de l'Impr. de D. Du Petit-Val & Martin Le Megissier, 1636. In-8, 42 p., [1] blank f., figs, paperback in parchment cover from a manuscript antiphonary (small paper damage in margin of title, a little handled, trace of fold in 4 anterior to binding). Rare Norman edition of this important edict, which fixed the value of coins. It is illustrated with numerous woodcut figures in the text, depicting coins in use at the time, both in France and elsewhere in Europe, including Avignon, Savoy, the Duchy of Milan and Liège. Provenance: de Mallevoüe, 19th c. (engraved bookplate).