Lot 5079

Description

Burger, Werner, Ch'ing Cash Until 1735, Mei Ya Publications, Taipei, Taiwan, 1976, 126pp., illustrated throughout plus numerous large fold out plates and other illustrations, quarto, hardbound. As new, rare.

Ex Coppenolle Collection. This book now out of print, a most extensive and important study on this period of Ch'ing dynasty cash. Originally a doctoral dissertation to the University of Munich. The author has observed minute variations in the general cash issues and from the original Chinese sources was able to establish a chronology on a yearly basis for all the mints for the Chinese rulers from 1616-1735. The second study completing the issues of cash to 1910 was never published.