Pieter van Damme - Joseph Eckhel - 1789-4-17

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Pieter van Damme - Joseph Eckhel - 1789-4-17
FINA IDUnique ID of the page  13615
InstitutionName of Institution. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
InventoryInventory number. MK 69
AuthorAuthor of the document. Pieter van Damme
RecipientRecipient of the correspondence. Joseph Eckhel
Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year . April 17, 1789
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution. Amsterdam 52° 22' 21.94" N, 4° 53' 36.96" E
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation.
LiteratureReference to literature. Dekesel - Dekesel-De Ruyck 2022, p. 588, note 431
KeywordNumismatic Keywords  Book Production , Book Sale , Exchange , Duplicates , Book Print Run, Greek
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence French
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-Letter of 17 April 1789 (from Amsterdam): On 17 April 1789,43 a new chapter in the relationship between the two men opened. Van Damme informed Eckhel that he had prepared an extremely limited edition of just 12 copies of a book in folio format, the title of which he gave as Recueil de Medailles de Rois in this letter; he said that his book contained illustrations of several thousand coins on plates, a considerable quantity of which unpublished, from his own and other collections that had not been accessible in print. He offered Eckhel one of the 12 copies for purchase for the library of the imperial coin cabinet, if he agreed to exchange duplicate coins for it (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, MK 69; Dekesel - Dekesel-De Ruyck 2022, p. 588, note 43)

References

  1. ^  Dekesel, Christian Edmond - Dekesel-De Uyt, Yvette M. M. (2022), "The Unholy Relationship Between a Numismatic Scholar and a Wheeler Dealer: Joseph Eckhel, Pieter van Damme and the Peculiar Recueil des médailles des Rois", in Bernhard Woytek and Daniela Williams (eds.), Ars critica numaria. Joseph Eckhel (1737–1798) and the Transformation of Ancient Numismatics, Vienna, p. 583-623