Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. CATALOGUE OF THE VALUABLE COLLECTION OF COINS AND MEDALS, THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE JOHN G. MURDOCH, ESQ. THE SERIES OF ANCIENT BRITISH, ANGLO-SAXON, ENGLISH AND IRISH COINS AND TOKENS. FIRST, SECOND, THIRD & FOURTH PORTIONS. [bound with] THE SERIES OF SCOTTISH AND ANGLO-GALLIC COINS. [bound with] THE COINS AND TOKENS OF THE BRITISH COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES, AMERICA AND THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT. [bound with] THE SERIES OF ENGLISH HISTORICAL MEDALS, FROM HENRY VI TO VICTORIA. London, 1903–1904. Eight catalogues complete, bound in one volume. Crown 4to, later yellow cloth; spine ruled in gilt with red label lettered in gilt. Superb frontispiece portrait of Murdoch; approximately 750 pages; 5386 lots; 85 very fine autotype plates of coins, medals and tokens. Hand-priced throughout, with occasional names and other annotations and additions. The 4–5 May 1903 catalogue of Murdoch’s collection of English porcelain and art is also bound in. The plates of the first part of the medal sale, printed at a slightly larger size, are very slightly trimmed in a few places. Else very good or better. The complete series of eight numismatic Murdoch sales, one of the most important collections of English coins and medals ever formed. Included among them is the July 21–30, 1903 catalogue, which comprises one of the most important foreign sales of rare American coins, featuring colonials, pioneer gold, United States coins in gold, silver, and copper, patterns, Canadian coins and tokens, etc. Clain-Stefanelli 6145*, 6146, 11276 & 14708. Grierson 298: “Collection d’une importance exceptionelle.” Manville & Robertson 1903: 18, 25, 32, 43 & 1904: 11, 26, 57 & 58 (pages 201–206). Ex Richard A. Margolis Library (Kolbe & Fanning Sale 159), lot 454.