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The David Griffiths Reference Library of Token Literature

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This collection was sold on 6 October 2010.

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Lot 4001, 6 Oct 10

Acworth, R.W.H., Hop Tokens in Kent, np, nd, 12pp; Acworth, R.W.H., Hop Pickers’ Tokens. Kent and Sussex. Herefordshire and Worcestershire. 4to, white paper wrappers, handwritten titles. Photocopied from the Journal of the South Eastern Agricultural College, Wye (Kent), No.40, July 1937, pp.158-170, and No.44, July 1939, pp.143-155, illustrations. With notes and letters loosely inserted; Clark, E.H., Kentish Hop Tokens and Their Issuers. Maidst...

Sold for £70

Lot 4001, 6 Oct 10

Acworth, R.W.H., Hop Tokens in Kent, np, nd, 12pp; Acworth, R.W.H., Hop Pickers’ Tokens. Kent and Sussex. Herefordshire and Worcestershire. 4to, white paper wrappers, handwritten titles. Photocopied from the Journal of the South Eastern Agricultural College, Wye (Kent), No.40, July 1937, pp.158-170, and No.44, July 1939, pp.143-155, illustrations. With notes and letters loosely inserted; Clark, E.H., Kentish Hop Tokens and Their Issuers. Maidst...

Sold for £70

Lot 4002, 6 Oct 10

Adams, S., The Essex Collection of post 1820 Tokens, Tallies, Medallions etc. Volume 1. Privately printed, 1993. 8vo, white card wrappers. 296pp, text illustrations. Copy no.156 (Manville 1737). £25-35

Sold for £50

Lot 4003, 6 Oct 10

Akerman, J.Y., A List of Tokens Issued by Wiltshire Tradesmen in the Seventeenth Century. London, 1846, 23pp, 1 plate (obverses and reverses of 13 tokens) (Manville 342); bound with Akerman, J.Y., Examples of Coffee House, Tavern, and Tradesmen’s Tokens, Current in London in the Seventeenth Century, London, 1846, 18pp, 3 plates (Manville 341); bound with Akerman, J.Y., Examples of Coffee House, Tavern, and Tradesmen’s Tokens, Current in Londo...

Sold for £580

Lot 4003, 6 Oct 10

Akerman, J.Y., A List of Tokens Issued by Wiltshire Tradesmen in the Seventeenth Century. London, 1846, 23pp, 1 plate (obverses and reverses of 13 tokens) (Manville 342); bound with Akerman, J.Y., Examples of Coffee House, Tavern, and Tradesmen’s Tokens, Current in London in the Seventeenth Century, London, 1846, 18pp, 3 plates (Manville 341); bound with Akerman, J.Y., Examples of Coffee House, Tavern, and Tradesmen’s Tokens, Current in Londo...

Sold for £580

Lot 4004, 6 Oct 10

Akerman, J.Y., Tradesmen’s Tokens Current in London and its Vicinity Between the Years 1648 and 1672, Described from the originals in the British Museum, and in several private collections. 1st edn, London, John Russell Smith, 1849. 8vo, original blue cloth, paper label, title printed in black only, preliminaries in right order, 8 plates of tokens, viii, viii (lacking i-iv as usual), 257pp, 10pp advertisements. Notes by David Griffiths on envel...

Sold for £70

Lot 4004, 6 Oct 10

Akerman, J.Y., Tradesmen’s Tokens Current in London and its Vicinity Between the Years 1648 and 1672, Described from the originals in the British Museum, and in several private collections. 1st edn, London, John Russell Smith, 1849. 8vo, original blue cloth, paper label, title printed in black only, preliminaries in right order, 8 plates of tokens, viii, viii (lacking i-iv as usual), 257pp, 10pp advertisements. Notes by David Griffiths on envel...

Sold for £70

Lot 4005, 6 Oct 10

Akerman, J.Y., Tradesmen’s Tokens Current in London and its Vicinity Between the Years 1648 and 1672. Described from the originals in the British Museum, and in several private collections. Large paper 1st edn, London, John Russell Smith, 1849. 4to, contemporary half leather, marbled boards. Title printed in red and black, some of the prelims bound in wrong order, 8 plates of tokens, viii, viii (lacking i-iv as usual), 257pp, interleaved, exten...

Sold for £1,200

Lot 4005, 6 Oct 10

Akerman, J.Y., Tradesmen’s Tokens Current in London and its Vicinity Between the Years 1648 and 1672. Described from the originals in the British Museum, and in several private collections. Large paper 1st edn, London, John Russell Smith, 1849. 4to, contemporary half leather, marbled boards. Title printed in red and black, some of the prelims bound in wrong order, 8 plates of tokens, viii, viii (lacking i-iv as usual), 257pp, interleaved, exten...

Sold for £1,200

Lot 4006, 6 Oct 10

Akerman, J.Y., Tradesmen’s Tokens Current in London and its Vicinity Between the Years 1648 and 1672. Described from the originals in the British Museum, and in several private collections. Large paper 1st edn, London, John Russell Smith, 1849. 8vo, dark green three-quarter morocco, back heavily gilt. Title printed in black only, prelims in right order, 8 plates of tokens, viii, viii (lacking i-iv as usual), 257pp, 2pp advertisements. Annotated...

Withdrawn

Lot 4006, 6 Oct 10

Akerman, J.Y., Tradesmen’s Tokens Current in London and its Vicinity Between the Years 1648 and 1672. Described from the originals in the British Museum, and in several private collections. Large paper 1st edn, London, John Russell Smith, 1849. 8vo, dark green three-quarter morocco, back heavily gilt. Title printed in black only, prelims in right order, 8 plates of tokens, viii, viii (lacking i-iv as usual), 257pp, 2pp advertisements. Annotated...

Withdrawn

Lot 4007, 6 Oct 10

Akerman, J.Y., Tradesmen’s Tokens Current in London and its Vicinity Between the Years 1648 and 1672. American reprint, New York, Burt Franklin, 1969. 8vo, red laminate, title in black, prelims in right order, 8 plates of tokens, viii, viii (lacking i-iv) as usual, 257pp. £15-25

Sold for £25

Lot 4007, 6 Oct 10

Akerman, J.Y., Tradesmen’s Tokens Current in London and its Vicinity Between the Years 1648 and 1672. American reprint, New York, Burt Franklin, 1969. 8vo, red laminate, title in black, prelims in right order, 8 plates of tokens, viii, viii (lacking i-iv) as usual, 257pp. £15-25

Sold for £25

Lot 4008, 6 Oct 10

American Numismatic Society, Dictionary Catalogue of the Library of the American Numismatic Society. Boston, Massachusetts, G.K. Hall & Co, 1962. Six volumes. Large 4to, red cloth, gilt. 5,194 pp, library catalogue cards reproduced in alphabetical order with 21 on each page [6]. £400-500

Sold for £460

Lot 4008, 6 Oct 10

American Numismatic Society, Dictionary Catalogue of the Library of the American Numismatic Society. Boston, Massachusetts, G.K. Hall & Co, 1962. Six volumes. Large 4to, red cloth, gilt. 5,194 pp, library catalogue cards reproduced in alphabetical order with 21 on each page [6]. £400-500

Sold for £460

Lot 4009, 6 Oct 10

Anderson, W., and others (eds), The ‘Conder’ Token Newsletter; The ‘Conder’ Token Collector’s Journal. Maple Grove and elsewhere, 1996-2005. 10 volumes in five. 4to, brown cloth boards; together with Vol. XI, Nos. 1, 3 and 4 [Spring 2006-Winter 2006/07], loose. 4to, white card, stapled [Lot] £200-300

Sold for £250

Lot 4009, 6 Oct 10

Anderson, W., and others (eds), The ‘Conder’ Token Newsletter; The ‘Conder’ Token Collector’s Journal. Maple Grove and elsewhere, 1996-2005. 10 volumes in five. 4to, brown cloth boards; together with Vol. XI, Nos. 1, 3 and 4 [Spring 2006-Winter 2006/07], loose. 4to, white card, stapled [Lot] £200-300

Sold for £250

Lot 4010, 6 Oct 10

[Anon], Report from the Committee Appointed to enquire into the State of the Copper Mines and Copper Trade of this Kingdom. Ordered to be printed 7th May 1799. 4to, tan half leather, black title label on spine, marbled boards, gilt. 176pp. On endpaper a label printed ‘M. Boulton’s Library, Soho, Sold at Christie’s December 1986’ and a manuscript note ‘Boulton Annotations pp.48 et seq’ (Manville 249). £250-350

Sold for £440

Lot 4010, 6 Oct 10

[Anon], Report from the Committee Appointed to enquire into the State of the Copper Mines and Copper Trade of this Kingdom. Ordered to be printed 7th May 1799. 4to, tan half leather, black title label on spine, marbled boards, gilt. 176pp. On endpaper a label printed ‘M. Boulton’s Library, Soho, Sold at Christie’s December 1986’ and a manuscript note ‘Boulton Annotations pp.48 et seq’ (Manville 249). £250-350

Sold for £440

Lot 4011, 6 Oct 10

[Anon], The Trial, at Large of William Booth, and His Associates, George Scot, the Three Yates’s, John Barrows, and Elizabeth Chidlow, for Forgery, Coining, &c. At The Stafford Summer Assizes, 1812, Before Mr Justice Le Blanc. Wolverhampton, Printed and sold by Gower and Smart, nd (? 1812). 10mo, half-calf, marbled boards. 46pp. With Hamer’s manuscript notes ‘Very scarce, I never saw a copy advertised in any second hand catalogue, before th...

Sold for £190

Lot 4011, 6 Oct 10

[Anon], The Trial, at Large of William Booth, and His Associates, George Scot, the Three Yates’s, John Barrows, and Elizabeth Chidlow, for Forgery, Coining, &c. At The Stafford Summer Assizes, 1812, Before Mr Justice Le Blanc. Wolverhampton, Printed and sold by Gower and Smart, nd (? 1812). 10mo, half-calf, marbled boards. 46pp. With Hamer’s manuscript notes ‘Very scarce, I never saw a copy advertised in any second hand catalogue, before th...

Sold for £190

Lot 4012, 6 Oct 10

Atkins, J., Macclesfield Series – Manuscript. nd. 8vo, rebound in brown cloth boards, gilt. A manuscript listing of 117 tokens. No illustrations. A re-arrangement of his previous Wilkinson series, arranging tokens by their obverses rather than reverses and dividing the series into seven different groups. Unique. £80-100

Sold for £210

Lot 4012, 6 Oct 10

Atkins, J., Macclesfield Series – Manuscript. nd. 8vo, rebound in brown cloth boards, gilt. A manuscript listing of 117 tokens. No illustrations. A re-arrangement of his previous Wilkinson series, arranging tokens by their obverses rather than reverses and dividing the series into seven different groups. Unique. £80-100

Sold for £210

Lot 4013, 6 Oct 10

Atkins, J., The Tradesmen’s Tokens of the Eighteenth Century. 1st edn, London, W.S. Lincoln & Son, 1892. 8vo, original quarter morocco, spine and top edge gilt. vi (2), 415pp. Interleaved with blank pages on which are pasted illustrations of tokens (Manville 555). £100-150

Sold for £110

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