Scott & Company. CATALOGUE OF GOLD AND SILVER COINS, BEING GEMS IN THE COLLECTION OF MR. JOHN W. SCOTT. PART FIRST. New York: Leavitt, March 13, 1882. 8vo, original printed paper covers. 32 pages; 400 lots; numerous line-drawn text illustrations of coins including a Confederate half dollar; 1 fine chromolithographic plate of orders and decorations. Hand-priced in ink. Promotional circular tipped in. Near fine. Adams 19, with plate. Rated A-: "C. Bechtler $5. Mormon $2.50. 1826 $10. Sommer 6¢, 12¢. Season medal. Original confederate 50¢. Choice ancients. War medals." The Confederate half dollar, presumed unique at the time, brought $870.00. Perhaps the first American auction catalogue to depict a fractional California gold coin: a line drawing of an octagonal "California Gold 1854" eagle with scroll dollar appears at the beginning of the catalogue. This section, the first fifty-eight lots of the sale, comprises "The largest collection of dollars and fractions thereof ever catalogued for public sale, all rare and nearly all as fine as when struck." The chromolithograph is most attractive. Ex David Sklow Sale 5, lot 167; ex Cardinal Collection Library.