Auction Catalogue

21 June 2012

Starting at 10:00 AM

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British Coins and Numismatic Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 1225

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21 June 2012

Hammer Price:
£120

Humphreys, H.N., The Coins of England, 2nd edn, London, 1846, xii + 148pp, 23 engraved coloured plates (Manville 344); Humphreys, H.N., The Coinage of the British Empire, 1st edn, London, 1854, 160pp, 24 engraved plates, some chromo-lithographic (Manville 386); Grueber, H.A., Handbook of the Coins of Great Britain and Ireland, London, 1899, lxxi + 272pp, 64 plates (Manville 591); Oman, C., The Coinage of England, Oxford, 1931, xii + 395pp, 45 engraved plates, dj (Manville 904); Brooke, G.C., English Coins, 1st edn, London, 1932, xii + 277pp, 64 plates (Manville 907); together with the plates from Hawkins’ Silver Coins of England and Kenyon’s Gold Coins of England [6]. First in full red leather, gilt, ribbed and gilt spine, all edges gilt, with signatures of Elizabeth Heron and R.I. Heyes on inside front cover, second with first free endpaper signed by William Gott, 1854, last in modern cloth with library stamps, others in publishers’ bindings
£50-70

Provenance: Ex libris Alan Morris, some with his bookplates, additionally: last de-accessed from Nofrthamptonshire Libraries