Lot 3865

Description

(Ainslie, Lieut.-Gen. George Robert). Illustrations of the Anglo-French coinage: taken from the cabinet of a Fellow of the Antiquarian Societies of London and Scotland; of the Royal Societies of France, Normandy, and many others, British as well as foreign, London, Hearne, 1830, 4to, x + 167 (+1) pp., (bound with) Supplement to the Illustrations of the Anglo-French coinage, London, John Hearne, 1847, (4) + 32 + (3)pp., 2 plates, bound with, Catalogue of the valuable collection of coins & medals of the late General Ainslie ...entire.. important and well-known series of Anglo-French coins which will be sold by auction, London, S.Leigh Sotheby, June 3-6, 1840, with names or purchasers and prices printed in. Three parts, in one volume, cloth, the supplement is uncommon and the auction catalogue rare, worn on corners and binding, otherwise fine and very rare.

Ex. Seaby (Rare Books) Ltd. July 1979 (Å“90) and the library of W.H. Banard by his signature on title page and Colin E. Pitchfork with his stamp on inside cover.