Trattato delle monete e valvta loro, ridotte dal costume antico, all'vso moderno
A 1562 Italian treatise on ancient and modern coinage and money, written by Guillaume Budé and translated by Giovan Bernardo Gualandi, printed in Florence by the Giunti press for scholars and merchants. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, each a letter H, E or L filled with figures such as a seated king, a couple embracing and winged figures in clouds, offering designers compact framed letter shapes with Renaissance figure motifs.
