Auction Catalogue

16 March 2011

Starting at 10:00 AM

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British and World Coins, Numismatic Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 838

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16 March 2011

Hammer Price:
£80

Bowring, J., The Decimal System in Numbers, Coins, and Accounts, London, 1854, 245pp, engraved illustrations (Manville 385); Liverpool, [1st] Earl of, A Treatise on the Coins of the Realm; in a Letter to The King, 3rd edn, London, 1880, xii + 295pp (Manville 492); Humphreys, H.N., The Coin Collector’s Manual, 2 vols, London, 1883, xxiv + 726pp, engraved illustrations (Manville 381, note); Montagu, H., The Copper, Tin and Bronze Coinage and Patterns for Coins of England, 1st edn, London, 1885, xvi + 91pp, engraved illustrations in text, second endpaper signed by the author to Sir Henry Howorth (Manville 521); Grueber, H.A., Handbook of the Coins of Great Britain and Ireland, London, 1899, lxxi + 272pp, 64 plates (Manville 591); Avebury, Lord, A Short History of Coins and Currency, London, 1902, x + 138pp, illustrations in text (Manville 612); Craig, Sir John, The Mint, London, 1953, xviii + 450pp, 16 plates, inside front cover signed by A. Hingston Quiggin and with stamp of the Cambridgeshire Numismatic Society (Manville 1013); Beresford-Jones, R.D., A Manual of Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins, London, 1964, 85pp, 4 plates (Manville 1107) [9]. Publishers’ bindings; varied state but mostly internally clean £70-90

Provenance: Humphreys ex libris Institute of Bankers, London, with their bookplates stamped ‘discard’