London: 10-30 May 1725. Original bound manuscript volume, compiled in a notebook titled Exchanges in ornate script. 54 pages plus cover [one leaf missing]. Covers lightly discolored and worn, with light chipping. Some browning, folds, and such. Still very good. An original manuscript maintaining careful records of bills of exchange..... More
London: 1984. By R.H. Thompson. Small 4to, original blue cloth, gilt. xl pages; 35 plates of tokens with facing text. Near fine. More
London: 1956. Crown 4to, original blue cloth, gilt; jacket. xlix, (3), 165, (7) pages; frontispiece; 23 plates. Light wear to jacket, else fine. Royal Numismatic Society Special Publication, No. 1. More
Dublin: Numismatic Society of Ireland, 2017. First Edition. 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt; jacket. (10), 146 pages; illustrated in color. New. The long-awaited reference for these intriguing issues. More
Peterborough: 2020. Second edition. 8vo, original pictorial boards. 256 pages; illustrated in color. New. The expanded second edition of this important reference on these intriguing and complicated issues. Adds one hundred pages of new information. More
Pavia: Varesi, 2017. 8vo, original pictorial boards. 463, (1) pages; illustrated. New. The first volume in the important MIR series. Illustrates and describes over 700 coin types. Provides information on rarity and value, as well. More
Pavia: Varesi, 2018. 8vo, original pictorial boards. 575, (1) pages; illustrated in color. New. The second volume of the important new standard work. More
Bologna: 1967. 4to, original brown cloth, gilt. 407, (1) pages; maps; illustrations. Near fine. No. 506 of 1000 copies printed, signed by the author. Clain-Stefanelli 10404. More
London: 1969. Reprint. 8vo, original green boards, gilt. (4), 203, (1) pages; frontispiece and 5 additional maps; text illustrations of coins. Near fine. A useful reprint of the classic work. More
New York: ANS, 2004. Square 4to, original red cloth, gilt; jacket. xi, (3), 146 pages; illustrated in color. New. More
Pavia: Varesi, undated. Second edition. 8vo, original pictorial boards. 166, (10) pages; illustrated. New. The latest edition of the important standard work. More
Hamburg: 1947. 8vo, later black cloth and marbled boards; title page printed in blue and black. 90 pages; 3 plates. Previous owner's bookplate on inside cover; near fine. Rarely offered. Clain-Stefanelli 590. More
Hamburg: 1948. 8vo, later green cloth; title page printed in red and black. 99, (1) pages; 4 plates. Previous owner's bookplate on inside cover; near fine. Rarely offered. Clain-Stefanelli 590. More
Beograd: 1970. 8vo, original gray printed cloth. 382, (2) pages. Serbian text; French summary. Fine. An important survey of the history of 16th- though 18th-century coins in the Yugoslavian countries. Scarce. More
The Colonial Coin Collectors Club, 2004. 4to, original blue cloth lettered in silver. x, 157, (1) pages; illustrated. Fine. The standard work. Out of print. More
Amsterdam: 1939. 8vo, original green cloth, gilt; gilt impression of the bank on the front cover. 158 pages. Ex George F. Kolbe Library with his bookplate. Fine or nearly so. Rare. Kolbe 297. More
London: Reprinted from the British Numismatic Journal, 1914–1915. Crown 4to, original green cloth, gilt. 179, (1) + 8 pages; text illustrations; 4 fine plates of tokens. Spine faded and a bit worn. Very good or better. The collected offprint of Wells’s articles on the subject originally published in the 1909–1911..... More
St. Paul: 1985. 4to, original printed boards. 105, (1) pages; illustrated; folding map. Fine. Not necessarily numismatic, but an interesting work providing context to the rich numismatic history of the North American fur trade. More
Cambridge: Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 1886. 8vo, original printed green paper covers. xii, 51, (1), (4) pages; illustrated, with pages 43–51 featuring 16 lithographic depictions of coin designs finely printed on thin paper and mounted on the pages. Near fine. An unusual and rather scarce work, with well-printed illustrations in the..... More
Frankfurt: Druck und Verlag von Paul Beholtz, 1906. Large 4to, later green cloth, gilt. vii, (1), 336 pages. Cover sunned, some foxing to flyleaf; near fine. The very scarce original edition. Coverage extends back to the medieval era. Clain-Stefanelli 338. More
London: Spink, 2017. 8vo, original pictorial boards. (10), 142, (8) pages; illustrated in color. New. A collectors’ handbook and price guide, amply illustrated, focusing on Islamic coins of roughly the 16th through 19th centuries AD (10th through 13th centuries AH). More
Devizes: Hurry & Pearson, 1893. 12mo, contemporary brown three-quarter polished morocco with brown cloth sides; spine ruled and lettered in gilt; top page edges gilt; decorative endpapers; original printed paper covers bound in. (2), 22 pages. Small bump to lower edge; near fine. Rare: likely the first copy we have..... More
Pasadena: 1970. 4to, original blue leatherette; jacket. x, 73, (1) pages; illustrated. Near fine. Includes a chapter on Indian trade silver. More
New Delhi: Indological Book House, 1972. 8vo, original black cloth; gilt. xii, 280 pages; folding map; 14 + 11 plates; text illustrations. Lakshmi Book Store stamps on flyleaf and title page; near fine. Clain-Stefanelli 10025*, citing the 1907 first edition. More
Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1846. 12mo, original cream colored cloth, embossed and decorated in blind and impressed with an image of a medal depicting Pharamond, legendary King of France, in gilt on the front cover and in blind on the back; spine ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt; all page..... More