[Rarebooks] FS: American Coins, Garrett Collection Sales -4 volumes

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “The Garrett Collection. Parts One through Four”

Los Angeles; Bowers & Ruddy Galleries: 1979-1981.

DISCUSSION: T. Harrison Garrett, whose family managed the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad, began collecting coins when he was a student at Princeton in he
1860s. By the time of his death in 1888 he had assembled one of the finest
collections of rare American coins in existence. Over the next eighty
years his descendants added rarities to the collection, which finally
ended up as the property of Johns Hopkins University, which decided to
sell it all at a series of four landmark auction between 1979 and 1981.

DESCRIPTION: 4 volumes. Hardcover. 8.5”x11”, about 150 pages each, color
and black & white illustrations.

CONDITION NOTES: Minor wear, but otherwise clean and nice, with tight
bindings.

PRICE: $125.00

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