Lot Archive

Lot

№ 596

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9 December 2008

Hammer Price:
£170

Humphreys, H.N., The Coinage of the British Empire, London, 1855, 160pp, 24 engraved plates; Liverpool, Earl of, A Treatise on the Coins of the Realm in a letter to the King, London, 1880, x + 295pp, first free endpaper with dedicatory inscription from Henry H. Gibbs to Arthur Crawley-Boevey, also signed by John Chown; Kenyon, R.L., The Gold Coins of England, London, 1884, 217pp, 23 plates; Nunn, C.H. (ed), The Numismatic Magazine, vol. V, Bury St Edmunds, 1890, 96pp, bound with Nunn, C.H. (ed), The Numismatic Quarterly, vol. I, Bury St Edmunds, 1881, 28pp, bound with Heywood, N., The Five Shilling Pieces of England from 1551 to 1887, Bury St Edmunds, 1888, 10pp; Whitton, C.A., The Coinages of Henry III and Edward VI in Henry’s Name, London, 1949, 120pp, 24 plates; other modern references (5) [10]. Publishers’ bindings, first with embossed black papier-maché imitation carved oak covers (£50-80)

Provenance:
Liverpool ex libris Arthur William Crawley-Boevey, 1880, and John F. Chown, 1962
Kenyon ex libris Ivan R. Buck, Braintree, 1967
Whitton ex libris Terence J. Robertson, London