EUROPE. European Crowns 1600?1700. John S. Davenport. Galesburg, Illinois, 1974 (printed by Hewitt Printing Corp., Chicago). Hardback in brown pebbled cloth with silver-stamped helmet-and-shield device and titles, issued without dust jacket. vi, 631 pages, with roughly 1,500 black-and-white illustrations and a foldout map of Italy, plus appendix and bibliography. A core identification manual for seventeenth-century talers and crown-size issues across the major European series, arranged country by country and by issuing authority, with strong visual coverage and clear attention to types, legends, mints, and rulers. Uses the standard Davenport numbering with rarity guidance, and keeps the focus on attribution rather than prices, making it especially useful for systematic cataloguing and quick side-by-side comparison at the desk. A clean, square copy with crisp pages, showing only light rubbing at the corners and edges.

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