[Rarebooks] FS: A color printed pioneer text on collecting American coins. Philadelphia: 1859

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(NUMISMATICS) Dickeson, Montroville Wilson. THE AMERICAN NUMISMATICAL MANUAL of the Currency or Money of the Aborigines, and Colonial, State, and United States Coins. With Historical and Descriptive Notices of Each Coin or Series. Illustrated by Nineteen Plates of Fac-Similes. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1859. First edition. Lg. 4to. 256pp. Index. Plus 19 color printed plates with multiple images on each, most printed in copper, silver and gold in order to represent the original coins. Frontispiece lithograph portrait of the author bound in. In addition, there are some text woodcuts. Very nicely rebound in 1/2 black morocco, gilt, over the original pebbled boards. T.e.g. Old water stain at bottom inner margin of last few leaves, no plates affected.     $750.00 (trade discount allowed)
A pioneer text on collecting American coins. BENNETT COLOR PRINTING, p. 34.

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