Auction Catalogue

6 October 2010

Starting at 1:00 PM

.

David Griffiths Reference Library of Token Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 4004

.

6 October 2010

Hammer Price:
£70

Akerman, J.Y., Tradesmen’s Tokens Current in London and its Vicinity Between the Years 1648 and 1672, Described from the originals in the British Museum, and in several private collections. 1st edn, London, John Russell Smith, 1849. 8vo, original blue cloth, paper label, title printed in black only, preliminaries in right order, 8 plates of tokens, viii, viii (lacking i-iv as usual), 257pp, 10pp advertisements. Notes by David Griffiths on envelope loosely inserted (Manville 362). £50-70

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The David Griffiths Reference Library of Token Literature.

View The David Griffiths Reference Library of Token Literature

View
Collection

Provenance: Ex libris C.M. Johnson; bt Seaby February 1980