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Hands, Revd. A.W., Common Greek Coins, London, 1907, xi + 170pp, illustrations in text; bound with Coins of Magna Græcia, London, 1909, xii + 337pp, illustrations in text; bound with Italo-Greek Coins of Southern Italy, London, 1912, 205pp, illustrations in text. Original maroon cloth; a very fine and fresh copy, rare (£80-100)
Hammer Price: £75
Hawkins, R.N.P., A Dictionary of Makers of British Metallic Tickets, Checks, Medalets, Tallies and Counters, 1788-1910, London, 1989, xiii + 1004pp, 32 plates. Publishers’ red cloth, with d.j.; an extremely fine copy (£30-40)
Hammer Price: £50
Head, B.V., Historia Numorum, 1st edn, Oxford, 1887, lxxix + 807pp, 5 engraved plates, illustrated in text. Original maroon half-leather, spine gilt, t.e.g.; a fine and attractive copy of this classic reference (£60-80)
Hammer Price: £60
Head, B.V., Catalogue of Greek Coins in the British Museum: Attica – Megaris – Aegina, London, 1888, lxix + 174pp, 26 plates; Wroth, W., Catalogue of Greek Coins in the British Museum: Coins of Parthia, London, 1903, lxxxviii + 289pp, 37 plates [2]. Original blue cloth, spines gilt; first with binding faded, some pencil checkmarks, plates complete but some cut, second a fine copy (£60-80)
Hammer Price: £80
Head, B.V., Historia Numorum, 2nd edn, Oxford, 1911, lxxxvii + 966pp, 5 engraved plates, illustrated in text. Original red cloth; a very fine copy of the best edition of this classic reference (£80-100)
Henfrey, H.W., The Ancient Coins of Norwich, London, 1880, 39pp, 2 engraved plates. Original paper covers part-repaired, internally fine and clean; front cover signed by the author to the Revd. Dr Babington (£15-25)
Hammer Price: £35
Hildebrand, B.E., Anglosachsiska Mynt, Stockholm, 1881, viii + 502pp, 14 engraved plates. Later green cloth; a few checkmarks and corrections (£30-40)
Hammer Price: £20
Hill, G.F., A Guide to the Exhibition of Historical Medals in the British Museum, London, 1924, 155pp, illustrations in text; Hancox, E.R.H., The Romance of the Penny, Ipswich, nd, 39pp, 6 plates; Mack, R.P., The Coinage of Ancient Britain, 1st edn, London, 1953, x + 151pp, 29 plates, with unsigned RNS Marshall Memorial Fund pastedown on reverse of title page; Seaby, H.A., and Rayner, P.A., The English Silver Coinage from 1649, 2nd edn, London, 1957, 136pp, engraved illustrations in text;...
Howorth, D.F., Coins and Tokens of the English Colonies and Dependencies, London, 1900, 94pp, engraved illustrations in text; Higgins, F.C., Copper Coins of Europe, 3rd edn, London, 1910, 95pp, newspaper cutting relating to the washing of porcelain money pasted-in at back; Raymond, W., Coins of the World, Nineteenth Century issues, 1st edn, New York, 1947, 252pp, illustrated in text, first free endpaper signed D. Elliott Smith, 20 April 1948; McGarry, S.L., Mormon Money, Colorado Springs,...
Hammer Price: £40
Humphreys, H.N., The Coin Collector’s Manual, 2 vols, London, 1880, xxiv + 726pp, 9 engraved plates; Crowther, G.F., A Guide to English Pattern Coins…from Edward I to Victoria, London, nd [1887], 60pp, engraved illustrations in text; Walters, F.A., Some remarks on the last silver coinage of Edward III, London, 1902, 8pp, 1 plate; Walters, F.A., The gold coinage of the reign of Henry VI, London, 1903, 25pp, 2 plates; Bramah, E., A Guide to the Varieties and Rarity of English Regal Copper...
Hammer Price: £25
Jewitt, L., Handbook of English Coins, London, nd, xvi + 77pp, 11 engraved plates, signed James Davidson Jr 1st Oct 1908 on first free endpaper; Shirley Fox, J., The Pleasures of English Coin Collecting, Medstead, 1934, 83pp, engraved illustrations in text; Forrer, L.S., The Art of Collecting Coins, London, 1955, 183pp, 16 plates, d.j; Dowle, A., and Finn, P., Coins for pleasure and investment, London, 1970, x + 182pp, d.j., dedicatory inscription from Patrick Finn on title page; Grierson,...
Kraay, C.M., and Hirmer, M., Greek Coins, London, 1966, 396pp, 220 colour and mono plates. Publishers’ cloth, d.j; a very fine copy of the most sumptuously illustrated book on Greek coins ever published (£150-200)
Hammer Price: £240
Lawrence, L.A., On a hoard of coins chiefly of King Stephen, 35pp; bound with Brooke, G.C., Some irregular coins of the reign of Stephen, 17pp, 1 plate; bound with Wells, W.C., The Shrewsbury mint in the reign of Richard I, and the silver mine at Carreghova, 21pp, 1 plate; bound with Lawrence, L.A., The Leicester hoard of ‘Tealby’ pennies of Henry II, 16pp; bound with Brooke, G.C., The first coinage, or ‘Tealby’ type, of Henry II, 29pp, 1 plate; bound with Gilbert, W., Unpublished...
Hammer Price: £120
Lindsay, J., A View of the Coinage of Scotland, Cork, 1845, viii + 287pp, 18 engraved plates; Lindsay, J., A Supplement to The Coinage of Scotland, Cork, 1859, vii + 64pp, 3 engraved plates, reverse of first free endpaper with dedicatory inscription from the author to Thomas Alexander Wise, Esqre., MD, FSA Scot, Decr. 27th 1862; Lindsay, J., A Second Supplement to The Coinage of Scotland, Cork, 1868, vi + 48pp, 2 engraved plates [3]. First in original boards, first free endpaper torn; second...
Lyall, B., The Tokens & Checks of Malta, Warrington, 1999, 40pp, illustrations in text. Paper label adhering to front (£5-10)
Hammer Price: £8
Macdonald, G., A Hoard of Edward Pennies found at Lochmaben, 20pp, 2 plates; bound with Macdonald, G., Two Hoards of Edward Pennies recently found in Scotland, 52pp, 3 plates, later blue cloth; Macdonald, G., The Mint of Crosraguel Abbey, 43pp, engraved illustrations in text; bound with Cochran-Patrick, R.W., Medals of Scotland, 7pp, 1 plate, later blue cloth, two picture postcards of Crosraguel Abbey with descriptive information dated 1938 tipped-in; together with offprints of articles on...
Hammer Price: £290
Macdonald, G., The Hunter Coin Cabinet, np [Glasgow], nd, lxvi pp; Macdonald, G., The Hunterian Coin Cabinet, Glasgow, 1933, 55pp [2]. Paper covers, former with back disbound, internally fine, author’s compliment slip pasted on inside front cover, second a fine copy (£20-30)
McFarland Davis, A. (ed), Tracts Relating to the Currency of the Massachusetts Bay 1682-1720, Boston, 1902, x + 394pp, 18 plates in text. Publishers’ blue cloth, spine gilt, t.e.g.; base of spine rubbed, otherwise a very fine copy, rare (£40-60)
Hammer Price: £45
Milne, J.G., Greek Coinage, Oxford, 1931, vi + 131pp, 12 plates; Newell, E.T., Royal Greek Portrait Coins, Racine, 1937 [later printing], 125pp, illustrations in text; Milne, J.G., Greek and Roman Coins and the Study of History, London, 1939, 128pp, 16 plates; Seltman, C., Greek Coins, 2nd edn, London, 1955, xxvi + 311pp, 64 plates; Head, B.V., A Guide to the Principal Coins of the Greeks, London, 1965, 108pp, 52 plates, d.j; Davis, N., Greek Coins & Cities, London, 1967, 221pp,...
Montagu, H., The Copper, Tin and Bronze Coinage and Patterns for Coins of England, 2nd edn, London, 1893, xxiii + 150pp, engraved illustrations in text. Red quarter morocco, ribbed spine, t.e.g.; spine rubbed and a few pencil checkmarks in text, otherwise fine (£40-60)
Morris, R., Coins of the Grand Masters of the Order of Malta, Boston, 1884, xvi + 70pp, 6 engraved plates. Original black cloth with bevelled edges; minor wear at extremities but internally fine and clean, very rare; with a 5pp tearsheet of Alfred Grotz’ address on the Coins of the Grand Masters of the Knights of Malta from The Numismatist, April 1941, tipped-in (£120-150)
Hammer Price: £130
North, J.J., English Hammered Coinage, vols. I and 2, 1st edns, London, 1960-3, 200pp, 16 plates, 183pp, 10 plates; Matthias, P., English Trade Tokens, the Industrial Revolution Illustrated, London, 1962, 64pp, illustrations in text; Dolley, M., The Norman Conquest and the English Coinage, London, 1966, 40pp, illustrations in text; Freeman, M.J., The Bronze Coinage of Great Britain, 1st edn, Glasgow, 1970, 154pp, 18 plates; Boon, G.C., Welsh Industrial Tokens & Medals, Cardiff, 1973,...
Numismatic Chronicle, 7th series, vols. 14-17, 19-20 [1974-7, 1979-80]; vols. 141-4, 146-62 [1981-4, 1986-2002]; Coin Hoards, vols. 1-7, London, 1975-85 [34]. Publishers’ bindings (£90-120)
Hammer Price: £140
Peck, C.W., English Copper, Tin and Bronze Coins in the British Museum, 1558-1958, 1st edn, London, 1960, xx + 646pp, 50 fine collotype plates. Publishers’ red cloth; minor foxing on two endpapers, otherwise a very fine copy with fresh d.j. (£50-70)
Hammer Price: £70
Pye, C., Provincial Copper Coins or Tokens issued between the Years 1787 and 1801, 2nd edn, London, 1801, 18pp + 52 engraved plates. Later brown quarter-morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt; a very fine copy, with notation by John Loder, July 1873, on inside front cover, also signed David Young 1976 (£90-120)
Hammer Price: £190
Restelli, F., and Sammut, J.C., The Coinage of the Knights in Malta, 2 vols, Valletta, 1977, 219pp, 90 plates [2]. Publishers’ red cloth; the standard reference (£90-120)
£90–£120
Richardson, A.B., Catalogue of the Scottish Coins in the National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, 1901, viii + 397pp, xii plates; copy no.85. Publishers’ green half-morocco, spine lettered in gilt, t.e.g.; binding somewhat scuffed, but internally very fine (£80-100)
Hammer Price: £95
Robinson, E.S.G., Catalogue of Ancient Greek Coins collected by Godfrey Locker Lampson, London, 1923, xx + 126pp, 26 fine plates, Original buff paper covers; a very fine copy (£50-70)
Sainthill, R., An Olla Podrida; or Scraps, Numismatic, Antiquarian and Literary, 2 vols, London, 1844-53, xv + 387pp, xxx + 444pp, engraved illustrations in text. Green half-leather and boards by John Maclaren, Edinburgh, ribbed spine, t.e.g.; some rubbing on binding extremities and internal foxing, otherwise a very fine set of this interesting treatise (£150-200)
Hammer Price: £250
Sammut, J.C., From Scudo to Sterling: Money in Malta 1798-1887, Valletta, 1992, xviii + 199pp, illustrations in text. Publishers’ brown cloth; a most useful treatise (£40-60)
Schembri, H.C., Coins and Medals of The Knights of Malta [1907], xii + 262pp, 84 plates. The 1966 Spink reprint; publishers’ red cloth (£25-35)
Schjöth, F., The Currency of the Far East: the Schjöth Collection at the Numismatic Cabinet of the University of Oslo, London, 1929, 88pp, 132 engraved plates; Coole, A.B., Coins in China’s History, 4th edn, Mission (Kansas), 1965, viii + 189pp, illustrated in text [2]. Publishers’ cloth bindings; very fine copies (£40-60)
Hammer Price: £55
Sharp, T., A Catalogue of Provincial Copper Coins, Tokens, Tickets and Medalets issued in Great Britain, Ireland and the Colonies during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries…described from the originals in the collection of Sir George Chetwynd, Baronet, London, 1834, xxi + 280pp. Original green decorated boards, spine gilt; spine rubbed and scuffed at edges, Introduction and pp.1-2 detached from binding, otherwise a fine copy of this classic work, extremely rare; with personal signed...
Hammer Price: £530
Snelling, T., A View of the Silver Coin and Coinage of England, London, 1762, 55pp, 17 engraved plates. Later boards, partly disbound; pages 17-20 missing and replaced with text in a neat copperplate hand (£20-30)
£20–£30
Snelling, T., The Coins of Great Britain, France and Ireland, &c, Parts I to VII, London, 1773, complete, including 70 plates of engravings; bound with Thirty-Three Plates of English Medals by the late Mr Thomas Snelling, London, 1776. Original full brown calf, ribbed spine; some light foxing, otherwise a fine copy (£120-150)
Sotheby & Co [London], Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Coins and Medals, the property of the late John G. Murdoch, Scottish and Anglo-Gallic coins, 11-13 May 1903, 406 lots, 11 plates; The Coins and Tokens of the British Colonies and Dependencies, America and the European Continent, 21-30 July 1903, 1,233 lots, 10 plates, both catalogues with prices and buyers’ names. Later brown patterned cloth, Murdoch’s name mis-spelt on spine; very fine (£40-60)
Sotheby & Co, Catalogue of…the Well-Known Collection of Scottish Coins formed by the late Sheriff Mackenzie, 21-2 February 1921, 380 lots; Catalogue of the Important Collection of Scottish Coins formed by the late R.W. Cochran-Patrick, 30-1 March 1936, 357 lots, 7 plates, PRL with buyers’ names tipped-in, together with original Spink invoice; Glendining & Co [London], Catalogue of Scottish and Irish Coins, the property of Dr. A.N. Brushfield, 28 March 1940, 200 lots, 4 plates; Catalogue...
Spink Coin Auctions [London], Nos.1-32, 34-6, 38-40, 42-3, 45-8, 50-1, 54-6, 58-9, 61-98 [1978-93], mostly with PRLs [89]. A good run of clean copies, including many important sales (£80-100)
Trésor de Numismatique et de Glyptique, Médailles Coulées et Ciselées en Italie aux XVe et XVIe siècles, np [Paris], nd, Introduction and Part II, 4 + 34pp, 4 + 40 fine plates by A. Collas. Original brown quarter-morocco and boards, ribbed spine; binding scruffy and torn, contents fine and fresh (£90-120)
Hammer Price: £110
Walters, F.A., The Coinage of the Reign of Edward IV, London, 1914, 88 + 48pp, 14 plates. Blue cloth, spine gilt; a very fine copy, with printed Brooke memorial appeal for funds to buy an Edward IV heavy coinage noble for the BM pasted-down inside, first free endpaper signed by W.G. Wallace (£40-60)
Hammer Price: £90
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