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

№ 810

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19 June 2008

Estimate: £80–£100

Smellie, W., Account of the Institution and Progress of the Society of the Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1782, 116pp, engraved title page. Contemporary decorated boards; binding considerably scuffed but internally fine and free from foxing, advertisement page inscribed ‘To the right hon.ble The Earl of Glencairn, by order of the Society of the Antiquaries of Scotland, James Cummyng Secry’ (£80-100)

Provenance:
James Cunningham, 14th Earl of Glencairn (1749-91)
Alexander Wood, Saltcoats, October 1911
Norman G. Brodie, with his bookplate tipped-in