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Lot

№ 4111

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6 October 2010

Hammer Price:
£350

Folkes, M., A Table of English Silver Coins from the Norman Conquest to the Present Time, With Their Weights, intrinsic Values, and some Remarks upon the several Pieces. London. Printed for the Society of Antiquaries, 1745. Large paper copy. Folio, 161 (1) pp, some contemporary ms additions and pen and ink drawings, portrait of Folkes by McArdell after T. Hudson mounted on preliminary blank; bound with Folkes, M., A Table of English Gold Coins from The Eighteenth Year of King Edward the Third, to the present Time, with Their Weights and intrinsic Values. London, Reprinted 1745. Large paper copy. Folio, 12pp; bound with Res selectæ ab Antiquariorum Societate Londini editæ, np. nd (c. 1738). Folio, 4pp, contemporary ms additions of gifts to 1745. Contemporary half calf, skilfully rebacked, old label preserved (Manville 133, 133a). £200-250

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The David Griffiths Reference Library of Token Literature.

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Provenance: Ex libris William, Duke of Bedford, with his bookplate; bt Seaby June 1980