Auction Catalogue

9 December 2010

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Ancient, British and World Coins, Numismatic Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 1031

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9 December 2010

Hammer Price:
£160

Folkes, M., A Table of English Silver Coins from The Norman Conquest to the Present Time…, 1st edn, London, 1745, 161pp + errata; bound with A Table of English Gold Coins from The Eighteenth Year of King Edward the Third to the present Time, 2nd edn, London, 1745, 12pp, 61 engraved plates; bound with a Supplement of 6 engraved plates from Gifford’s 1763 edition (Manville 133). Blue leather, decorated gilt edging and ribbed spine, all edges gilt; interior tape strengthening of binding and extremities rubbed, internally very fine and fresh; signed ‘Walter Murphy from R.A.H. [R.A. Hoblyn], 3/9/84’ on first free endpaper £120-150

Provenance: Ex libris Walter Murphy, 1884; Capt Harold Paget, with his bookplate; Alfred Bole