Auction Catalogue

19 June 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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British and World Coins including Important Irish Coins from a Private Collection (Part I)

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 798

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19 June 2008

Hammer Price:
£40

Lane-Poole, S., Coins and Medals, their Place in History and Art, London, 1885, x + 286pp; Hazlitt, W.C., The Coin Collector, London, 1896, 297pp, 12 plates; Allan, W., The Christian Teaching of Coin Mottoes, London, 1911, 184pp, illustrations in text; Frey, A.R. [and Salton, M.], Dictionary of Numismatic Names, New York, 1947, ix + 311 + 93pp; Hoberman, G., The Art of Coins and their Photography, London, 1982, 397pp, illustrations in text, dj, second free endpaper signed by the author to Patrick Finn; together with other general coin references (38), by Akerman, Sutherland, Becker, Grierson, Forrer, Doty, Porteous, etc [43]. Mostly publishers’ bindings; several very fine (£60-80)

Provenance:
Hazlitt ex libris Harold Fentiman, bt October 1903
Hoberman ex libris Patrick Finn, Baldwin Auction 28, 9 October 2001, lot 2177.

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