British and World Coins, Commemorative Medals, Numismatic Books

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’ £40-50

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