Lot Archive

Lot

№ 1558

.

16 March 2005

Hammer Price:
£400

Burns, E., The Coinage of Scotland, 3 vols, Edinburgh, 1887, xxiii + 365pp, xviii + 556pp, vi + 79 fine plates [3]. Rebacked in half-calf, marbled boards, spine ribbed and with green labels, t.e.g., marbled endpapers; some rubbing on binding extremities and library stamps on first endpapers of each volume, otherwise a very fine set, internally fresh; vol.I with photocopied book review and obituary of Burns pasted-in (£200-250)

Provenance:
De-accessed from Oldham Free Public Libraries, with bookplates
ex libris Neil G. Taverner