Ancient Coins, Artefacts and Numismatic Books

[Pinkerton, J.], An Essay on Medals, 1st edn, London, 1784, xxxii + 324pp, 2pp corrigenda (Manville 213). Modern quarter leather and boards; quotation from Samuel Johnson on the collecting of coins and some prices realised at the Benjamin Bartlett sale, May 1787, in a neat contemporary hand on endpapers, other corrections to the main text in the same hand, very fine and clean
£50-70

Provenance: Ex libris Alan Morris