HEATH’S INFALLIBLE COUNTERFEIT DETECTOR AT SIGHT...
Boston: Heath, 1864. First edition, seventeenth thousand. 16mo, original embossed brown cloth, front cover lettered in gilt (price not stated). 32 pages; 10 finely engraved plates of bank note design elements, Plate 4 printed in red ink, Plate 6 serving as a frontispiece, Plate 8 printed in green ink, Plate 9 (unnumbered) being a finely engraved folding Heath bank note facsimile, and Plate 10 (unnumbered) being a finely engraved folding facsimile of a counterfeit $5 Bank of Orleans note taken from captured engraved plates. Front cover with some staining and a small cloth tear; contents with moderate browning and foxing; very good. Item #7991
Newman 1-P-17. Of the two bank notes facsimiles present in this printing Heath wrote: “For the purpose of more fully illustrating the difference between genuine and counterfeit engraving, we have at great trouble and expense obtained a counterfeit plate engraved by counterfeiters and taken from them at the time of their arrest. This plate is in the hands of the American Bank Note Company, from which these specimens are printed. Plate 9 is a beautiful specimen of engraving by the American Bank Note Company.”.
Price: $300.00