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19 June 2002
Lot No 1010
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Adams, S., The Essex Collection of post 1820 tokens, tallies & medallions, np, 1993, 296pp, profusely illustrated throughout, copy no.104. A fine copy of this useful treatise (£15-20)
Lot No 1011
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Akerman, J.Y., Tradesmen’s Tokens, current in London and its vicinity between the years 1648 and 1672, London, 1849, viii + 257pp, 8 engraved plates. Lacking binding; the whole book extensively annotated and amended by Preston-Morley as a direct copy of the volume of...
Lot No 1012
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Bell, R.C., Commercial Coins 1787-1804, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1963, 319pp, illustrated throughout. Publishers’ blue cloth and boards, a clean copy, internally fine, with d.j. [this slightly stained]; signed by the author, September 1976, on inside front cover (£30-40)
Lot No 1013
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Bell, R.C., Copper Commercial Coins 1811-1819, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1964, xvii + 238pp, illustrated throughout. Publishers’ red cloth; an extremely fine and fresh copy, with d.j.; signed by the author, September 1996, on inside front cover (£30-40)
Lot No 1014
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Bell, R.C., Tradesmen’s Tickets and Private Tokens, 1785-1819, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1966, xii + 315pp, illustrated throughout. Publishers’ blue cloth; an extremely fine and fresh copy, with d.j. [this a trifle scuffed]; signed by the author, September 1996, on inside...
Lot No 1015
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Bell, R.C., Specious Tokens and those struck for General Circulation, 1784-1804, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1968, xvii + 257pp, illustrated throughout. Publishers’ blue cloth; an extremely fine and fresh copy, with d.j., valuation sheet tipped-in; signed by the author, Sept...
Lot No 1016
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Bell, R.C., Unofficial Farthings 1820-1870, London, 1975, Introduction + 248pp, profusely illustrated throughout. Publishers’ light tan cloth, virtually as new, with d.j.; now scarce (£20-30)
Lot No 1017
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Bell, R.C., The Building Medalets of Kempson and Skidmore, 1796-1797, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1978, 183pp, illustrated throughout. Publishers’ blue rexine; an extremely fine and fresh copy, with d.j.; signed by the author, Northampton, September 1996, on inside front cov...
Lot No 1018
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Bell, R.C., Whitmore, J., and Sweeny, J.O., Bell’s Unofficial Farthings: A Supplement, Malvern, 1994, viii + 237pp, 43 plates. A fine copy of this definitive reference; signed ‘Happy Hunting’ by R.C. Bell, September 1996, on inside front cover (£20-30)
Lot No 1019
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Berry, G., and Morley, P., A Revised Survey of the Seventeenth-Century Tokens of Buckinghamshire, London, 1973, pp.96-125, 2 plates. Publishers’ blue card covers; some minor amendments to text by Preston-Morley and signed by him on first free endpaper, otherwise a ver...
Lot No 1020
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Boon, G.C., Welsh Tokens of the 17th Century, Cardiff, 1973, 144pp. With some neat amendments to the text by Preston-Morley, otherwise a fine copy of this important reference; together with the 4pp Supplement, 1976, signed by the author, tipped-in (£25-35)
Lot No 1021
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Boyne, W., Tokens issued in the Seventeenth Century in England, Wales and Ireland, London, 1858, xxiii + 630pp, 42 engraved plates. Original green decorated cloth, spine gilt; internally complete, but four plates loose and some plates heavily foxed, spine somewhat fra...
Lot No 1022
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, British & Irish Tokens Journal, Dublin, vol.1, no.1 [August 1980], iii + 50pp, illustrations in text. Publishers’ blue card covers, a very fine copy, now rare; a handwritten draft of Preston-Morley’s review of the publication for BNJ tipped-in (£15-25)
Lot No 1023
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Buckinghamshire: The original notebook recording the collection of Bucks 17th century tokens formed by Sir Ambrose Heal, catalogued by Edwin Hollis, September 1934, including prices paid and noting which specimens were given to Wycombe Museum, December 1945; together...
Lot No 1024
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society, Records of Buckinghamshire, Aylesbury, vol.4, no.3 [1872], vol.10, no.3 [1912], vol.12, nos.1 and 6 [1927, 1932], vol.13, pt 4 [1937], vol.14, pt 1 [1941], vol.15, pt 3 [1949], vol.18, pt 2 [1967]; together with a reprint of the...
Lot No 1025
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Christie’s [London], Catalogue of Ancient, Foreign and English Coins and Medallions, including the D.L. Cornell Collection of Norfolk Tokens, 18 February 1986, an extensively annotated catalogue, with all prices and buyers’ names; together with an album containing enl...
Lot No 1026
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Conder, J., An Arrangement of Provincial Coins, Tokens and Medalets issued in Great Britain, Ireland and the Colonies, London, 1798, address, preface [by J. Wright], 330pp + errata page, 3 engraved plates. Later red half-morocco, back gilt, with integral bookmark; sig...
Lot No 1027
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, The ‘Conder’ Token Newsletter, vol.I, nos.1-4; vol.II, nos.1-2, Maple Grove, Minnesota, August 1996-November 1997; The ‘Conder’ Token Collector’s Journal, vol.III, nos.1-4; vol.IV, nos.1-4; vol.V, nos.1-4; vol.VI, nos.1-4; vol.VII, no.1, Maple Grove and St Paul, Minne...
Lot No 1028
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Costello, T.B., and Blake, M.J., Trade Tokens of the County of Galway in the Seventeenth Century, with Notes on the Issuers, Galway, 1911, 17pp, including 5 engraved plates. Green paper cover cut at bottom, but internally fine and fresh, rare (£20-30)
Lot No 1029
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Cotton, W.A., The Coins, Tokens and Medals of Worcestershire, Bromsgrove, 1885, [xii] + 147pp, rectos, engraved plates and a few engraved illustrations in text, copy no.56. Publishers’ cream boards, gilt tooling at edges; binding rather rubbed, but internally very fin...
Lot No 1030
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Cox, B.G., The Seventeenth Century Token Coinage of Blandford Forum, Dorset, Blandford, 1983, 9pp rectos, illustrations; Coles, P., The Wimborne Trade Tokens 1657-1670, 23pp, engraved illustrations; Udal, J.S., Dorsetshire Folk-Lore, 2nd edn, St Peter Port, 1970, and...
Lot No 1031
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Cox, N. and A., The Tokens, Checks, Metallic Tickets, Passes and Tallies of Wales, 1800-1993, Cardiff, 1994, 283pp, illustrated in text. A virtually mint copy (£20-30)
Lot No 1032
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Davis, W.J., The Nineteenth Century Token Coinage [London, 1904], xlvii + 284pp, 15 plates and extra illustrations in text. The 1969 Seaby reprint; publishers’ blue cloth, a very fine copy (£40-60)
Lot No 1033
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, [Deane, A., and others], Belfast Public Art Gallery and Museum: Catalogue of Irish Tokens, 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries, Belfast, 1913, 67pp, engraved illustrations in text. Publishers’ buff card cover; internally very fine, but binding staples missing (£20-30)
Lot No 1034
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Devonshire Association, Report & Transactions, Torquay, vol.lxxvii [1945], xii + 308pp. Publishers’ blue paper covers, a fine copy; with ALS from Mrs J. Edyvean, Asst Secretary, dated 17.viii.1973, regarding articles on trade tokens in the Transactions between 1872 an...
Lot No 1035
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Dix Noonan Webb [London], The R.C. Bell Collection of British Trade Tokens; the original 60pp manuscript list of the collection in the owner’s hand, together with a complete single column draft proof of the catalogue with some minor amendments, an early draft of the f...
Lot No 1036
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Drury, H.C., The Later XIXth Century Farthing Tokens of Ireland, Dublin, 1920, 15pp; Rice, G., The Seventeenth-Century Tokens of County Louth, Louth, 1984, 17pp. [2]. Publishers’ bindings; both fine copies, but former with minor pencil checkmarks (£20-30)
Lot No 1037
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Halifax Antiquarian Society: printed copies of lectures to, and articles by, S.H. Hamer, all relating to tokens, 1904-20, one extensively annotated by Hamer and with two pencil notes tipped-in; together with a printed note of the Halifax tokens bought by members of th...
Lot No 1038
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Henderson, A.C., Hop Tokens of Kent and Sussex & their issuers, London, 1990, 128pp, incorporating 60 plates; Clark, E.H., Kentish Hop Tokens and their Issuers, Maidstone, 1930, 19pp, including illustrations [2]. First virtually as new, second a photocopy (£15-25)
Lot No 1039
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Hoare, Capt E., Early and Modern Tokens bearing the names of Hoare, etc, London, 1880, 4pp, 1 engraved plate; Gray, H. St George, and Symonds, H., Somerset Trade Tokens, XVII Century: new types and varieties, and corrections of former lists, Taunton, 1915, 13pp, engra...
Lot No 1040
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Hocking, W.J., Catalogue of the Coins, Medals, Dies and Seals in the Museum of the Royal Mint, 2 vols, London, 1906-10, viii + 460, ii + 318pp [2]. Publishers’ decorated blue cloth, spine lettering in gilt; an extremely fine and attractive set (£60-80)
Lot No 1041
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Jacob, K.A., The Cambridge Trade Tokens of the 17th and 18th centuries and the traders who issued them, np, nd [1971-7], 37pp, photocopied rectos. Modern green cloth and boards, scarce (£15-25)
Lot No 1042
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Jewitt, L. [with Head, B.], English Coins and Tokens, London, 1888, 128pp, engraved illustrations in text; Halstead, Major D., The Token Coinage of Great Britain, 8pp, np, nd; Whiting, J.R.S., Trade Tokens, A Social and Economic History, Newton Abbot, 1971, 192pp, inc...
Lot No 1043
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Judson, E. and Eileen, A Re-Listing of the Seventeenth Century Trade Tokens of Essex, Haverhill, 1973, 48pp; Judson, Eileen, The Lives and Wills of Essex Token Issuers, incorporating a re-listing of the Seventeenth Century Trade Tokens of Essex, np, 1987, iii + 270pp...
Lot No 1044
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Kelly, E.M., Spanish Dollars and Silver Tokens, London, 1976, ii + 151pp, 8 plates. An extremely fine copy of this standard reference; with d.j. (£25-35)
Lot No 1045
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Kempson, E.G.H., Indictments for the Coining of Tokens in Seventeenth-Century Wiltshire, London, 1973, 6pp; Kempson, E.G.H., Wiltshire XVII Century Tokens, 1st edn, Salisbury, June 1978, 28pp, and 2nd edn, Salisbury, September 1978, 28pp; Wiltshire Numismatic Society,...
Lot No 1046
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Kent, G.C., British Coins and Tokens, Chichester, 1913, xxvii + 352pp; Matthias, P., English Trade Tokens, London, 1962, 64pp including 16 plates; Berry, G., Discovering Coins, Tring, 1968, 56pp, including plates; Berry, G., Discovering Trade Tokens, Tring, 1969, 56pp...
Lot No 1047
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Lowe-Warren, J., Sussex Tokens issued during the XVIIth, XVIIIth & XIXth Centuries, 1st edn, London, 1888, 30pp + index and list of subscribers. Original maroon decorated cloth, titles in gilt, extremely rare; minor pencil checkmarks in text, signed on first free endp...
Lot No 1048
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Milne, J.G., Catalogue of Oxfordshire Seventeenth Century Tokens, Oxford, 1935, xx + 48pp, xvi plates. Original buff card covers; a very fine copy (£25-35)
Lot No 1049
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Minnitt, S.C., Durnell, J., and Gunstone, A.J.H., Somerset Public House Tokens, Bridgwater, 1985, 144pp, profusely illustrated throughout; Minnitt, S.C., and Young, D., Tickets Checks & Passes from the County of Somerset, Bridgwater, 1990, 114pp, profusely illustrated...
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