Auction Catalogue

1 July 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 2724

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1 July 2008

Hammer Price:
£50

Farquhar, Helen, Silver Counters of the Seventeenth Century, London, 1916 [reprinted from NC 1916], 61pp, 2 plates; Lawrence, L.A., On a Portion of a Set of Silver Counters Exhibiting London Criers and their Cries, London, 1920 [reprinted from BNJ 1918], pp.49-55, 2 plates; Hill, G.F., and Pollard, G., Renaissance Medals from the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the National Gallery of Art (Washington), London, 1967, 312pp including illustrations, dj; Engstrom, J.E., The Medallic Portraits of Sir Winston Churchill, London, 1972, 52pp, illustrations in text, dj (2 copies); Friedenberg, D.M., Jewish Minters & Medalists, Philadelphia, 1976, x + 131pp, illustrations in text, dj, title page inscribed to Dr Roger Highfield from the author; Taylor, J., The Architectural Medal: England in the Nineteenth Century, London, 1978, xii + 244pp, illustrations in text, dj; Jones, M., The Art of the Medal, London, 1979, 192pp, illustrations in text; Jones, M., Contemporary British Medals, London, 1986, 62pp, illustrations in text; Attwood, P., Artistic Circles: The Medal in Britain 1880-1918, London, 1992, 64pp, illustrations in text; other references (6), by Fearon, Hill, etc [16]. Publishers’ bindings; mostly very fine copies (£90-120)