ASSEMANI, Simone. Spiegazione di due rarissime medaglie cufiche della famiglia degli Ommiadi appartenenti al Museo Majnoni in Milano. Milano, Dalla Tipografia de' costumi antichi e moderni del dottore Giulio Ferrario, 1818
Folio, 305x210 mm. Pp. [9]. Vignette with arabic characters on titlepage. The name of the author Assemani Simone from the repertoires (Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog). Traces of humidity on the upper margin of pages.
First edition. In 1818, the orientalist and numismatic Assemani, known as authority on Cufic coins through his "Museo Cufico Naniano", published his "Spiegazione", a discussion of two rare Cufic coins in the collection of Stefano de Majnoni. Subsequently, Majnoni called Assemani to identify several additional coins and in 1820 asked him to check a catalog of his collection, compiled by Giuseppe Schiepati.