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14–16 June 2017

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№ 1254

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15 June 2017

Hammer Price:
£45

Evans, J., The Coins of the Ancient Britons, London, 1864, xi + 416pp, 17 engraved plates (Manville 427). Publisher’s green cloth, gilt, newspaper cutting from the Daily Telegraph, 10 February 1919, detailing Sir Arthur Evans’ gift of his Father’s collection of Iron Age coins to the British Museum, tipped-in; some foxing on Plate I, otherwise essentially fine and clean [weight 1.2 kg] £60-80

Provenance: Ex libris Sir W. Boyd Dawkins [given by Lady Dawkins, 1929]; H.J. Dakers; Jeffrey Gardiner [from Corbitt & Hunter]