[JEWISH COINAGE] Adriani Relandi Dissertatio de inscriptione nummorum quorundam Samaritanorum,

ad spectatissimum virum, Jacobum de Wilde. Amstelodami, apud Franciscum Halma, Sub signo, Constantini Magni. [Amsterdam : Franciscus Halma], 1702. Octavo (160 x 100 mm), contemporary vellum over boards, spine with early manuscript title; title leaf with engraved vignette; pp. 60, illustrated with 2 engraved plates; [BOUND WITH] Adriani Relandi Dissertatio altera de inscriptione nummorum quorundam Samaritanorum … in qua de Amphora Mannae nummis illis inscripta, & asini cultu Judaeis per calumniam objecto agitur. Trajecti ad Rhenum, Vaeneunt apud Thomam Appels, sub signo Ciceronis. [Utrecht : Thomas Appels], 1704. Title leaf with engraved vignette, pp. 119, [7] (two elegies for Maria de Wilde), illustrated with 3 engraved plates; text in both volumes is in Latin, with occasional Hebrew, Greek, Syriac and Ethiopic; binding firm, contents crisp and clean throughout both works.

Two very scarce treatises on Jewish coinage by the Dutch Orientalist scholar, cartographer and philologist Adriaan Reland (1676-1718). Both are first (and only) editions.