Ancient, British & World Coins, Commemorative Medals and Books

Sotheby & Son [London], A Catalogue of the Unique Collection of Coins and Medals…of the late…Marmaduke Trattle, Esq, 30 May-13 July 1832, medallic frontispiece, 3,387 lots, priced and with buyers’ names throughout; Zanetti, G.F., De Nummis Regum Mysiæ seu Rasciæ, Venice, 1750, 32pp, 1 engraved plate, bound with Zanetti, G.F., Dell’ Origine e della Antichita della Moneta Viniziana, Venice, 1750, 52pp, 1 engraved plate; Sestini, D., Descrizione delle Medaglie Ispane…nel Museo Hedervariano, Florence, 1818, 227pp, 10 engraved plates [3]. First in half-morocco and marbled boards, ribbed and gilt spine, t.e.g, some rubbing to marbled boards, otherwise internally fine and clean, important; others in contemporary boards, internally fine £200-250

Provenance: First ex libris The Hon. Theobald FitzWalter Butler (1845-1914), Barrow-in-Furness, with his bookplate