Sandham, Alfred. COINS, TOKENS AND MEDALS OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA. Montreal: Daniel Rose, 1869. Small 8vo, plain black cloth over stiff boards. (4), 50 pages, interleaved; lithographic frontispiece; text figures; many illustrations from the 8 lithographic plates cut to size, rearranged, and pasted in on the interleaves. Lacking medal text. Numerous pencil and ink annotations. Rear hinge weak; very good. Inscribed in pencil on front flyleaf: “From the Library of Late James Atkins, Numismatist, 27/9/10.” Atkins’s many annotations include additions, detailed notes on unrecorded varieties, etc. A unique, most interesting rearrangement by one of great Britain’s greatest token experts of the nineteenth century. CNB page 42. Clain-Stefanelli 8548. Grierson 219. Ex James Atkins Library; ex John J. Ford, Jr. Library (Kolbe Sale 93, lot 833, at $800 hammer); ex Joseph Foster Library; ex Richard Cooper Library.
Price realized | 425 USD |
Starting price | 275 USD |
Estimate | 400 USD |