Coins, Tokens, Historical Medals, Paper Money and Numismatic Books

Burn, J.H., A Descriptive Catalogue of the London Traders, Tavern, and Coffee-House Tokens Current in the Seventeenth Century, presented to the Corporation Library by Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy, 2nd edn, London, 1855, xcv + 287pp, 3 engraved plates (Manville 392), relating ALS from an uncertain hand on behalf of the West of England Fire and Life Assurance Office and the City of London Library, to Llewellyn Jewitt, 11 March 1856, tipped-in; Boyne, W., Tokens issued in the Seventeenth Century in England, Wales and Ireland, London, 1858, xxiii + 630pp, 42 engraved plates (Manville 403); Boyne, W., Tokens issued in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries in Yorkshire…also the Seals of all the Corporations in that County, Headingley, 1858, viii + 62pp, engraved plates and illustrations in text, 33 plates of seals (Manville 404) [3]. Original decorated cloth; first two fine, last with copious library stamps [weight 2.6 kg] £80-100

Provenance: Ex libris Jeffery Gardiner, additionally: last de-accessed from Newcastle-upon-Tyne Public Libraries