2017. Second edition. 4to, original pictorial card covers. (4), xix, (1), 453, (3) pages; illustrated. Fine. The revised second edition of this standard work. Awarded the Lhotka Prize by the Royal Numismatic Society. More
Gamlingay: 2011. Tall 4to, original printed card covers. 164 pages; illustrated. New. Covers the numismatic history of Japan before the Meiji period (i.e., before 1868). Useful guides to the calligraphy, language, production techniques and historical background are also provided. Intended to be of use to both novice and more advanced..... More
London: Spink, 2020. 8vo, original pictorial boards. xii, 248 pages; illustrated in color. New. A highly personal examination of the fascinating Kushan empire and its coinage, with much discussion of the chronology of the Kushan kings, their religious system, and the evolution of their coinage. More
Lancaster: CNG, 2017. 4to, original pictorial boards; jacket. (6), 429 pages; illustrated in color throughout. New. More
Monaco: Éditions Gadoury, 2013. 8vo, original blue leatherette, gilt. 168 pages; well illustrated in color throughout. New. The new standard catalogue on French Indochina. Lists over 800 coins, illustrating 700. More
Lancaster: CNG, 2006. 4to, original blue boards lettered in silver; jackets. lv, (1), 152 pages; illustrated. New. An important recent work. Daehn 6470. More
Oxford: Published for the British Academy, 2004 and 2007. Two volumes. 4to, original matching russet cloth, gilt. (27), (67) + 377, (1) pages; 173 + 158 plates of coins, each with a page of facing descriptive text [second volume plates included in pagination]. Fine. Two parts of this SNG series..... More
Bound volume of three offprints by Temple on this subject: “Notes on Currency and Coinage among the Burmese” (reprinted from The Indian Antiquary for 1919); “Notes on Currency and Coinage among the Burmese” (reprinted from The Indian Antiquary for 1927–1928); and “On Certain Specimens of Former Currency in Burma” (reprinted..... More
Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2017. First edition. 8vo, original gold cloth lettered in brown and white; jacket. 685, (3) pages; illustrated in color. New. The new publication on ancient coins of China by François Thierry. Perhaps the most significant work on the subject published in a European language in many..... 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
New York: American Numismatic Society, 2022. 4to, original black cloth lettered in silver; jacket. viii, 232 pages; illustrated. New. A remarkable study of the votive copper coinage produced between roughly AD 550 and 1100 by shrines in what is now Pakistan that reveal Hindi, Islamic, Persian and Indic influences. Volume..... More
Hong Kong: Champion, 2010. Tall 4to, original pictorial boards. (4), 152 pages; heavily illustrated in color. Near fine. More
Leiden: Brill, 1999. 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt; jacket. x, 234 pages; 5 plates. Jacket a bit worn; near fine. An interesting cultural study of the employment of Westerners in the Japanese Mint in Meiji Japan and their eventual removal from these positions. More
Complete set of seven issues (1982–1984), housed in a custom-made red and black linen clamshell box lettered in gilt in Chinese and English. 4to, original printed card covers. Approximately 750 pages total. Issues generally near fine; box as new. A complete set of this scarce publication, essential to students of..... More
Batavia & Gravenhage: Landsdrukkerij & M. Nijhoff, 1904. 8vo, contemporary tan half calf with mottled sides; spine with red leather spine label, gilt; marbled endpapers. xxiv, 227, (1) pages. Binding worn, with joints cracked, but sound. Very good. Rare: quite possibly the only copy we have handled. Catalogues nearly 3000..... More
London: Spink, 2022. 8vo, original pictorial boards. 173, (3) pages; illustrated in color. New. Four papers, introducing Chinese numismatics to Western audiences, and discussing the Chinese monetary system, the history of Chinese coin collecting and numismatic study, and the current state of Chinese numismatics. Introduction by Joe Cribb. More