Auction Catalogue

16 March 2005

Starting at 9:30 AM

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Ancient, British and World Coins and Banknotes, to include the Professor Jeffrey P Mass Collection of English Short Cross Coins, 1180-1247 (Part II) and British Medals from the James Spencer Collection (Part III)

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1558

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16 March 2005

Hammer Price:
£400

Burns, E., The Coinage of Scotland, 3 vols, Edinburgh, 1887, xxiii + 365pp, xviii + 556pp, vi + 79 fine plates [3]. Rebacked in half-calf, marbled boards, spine ribbed and with green labels, t.e.g., marbled endpapers; some rubbing on binding extremities and library stamps on first endpapers of each volume, otherwise a very fine set, internally fresh; vol.I with photocopied book review and obituary of Burns pasted-in (£200-250)

Provenance:
De-accessed from Oldham Free Public Libraries, with bookplates
ex libris Neil G. Taverner