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New Illustrated Manual of the Current Gold & Silver Coins
by SKELTON, Henry P
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
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About This Item
2 parts bound together in 1 volume tall 8vo. iv, 197; iv, [192]pp., 96 splendid plates printed on light card in gold or silver and embossed with the designs of all of the many hundreds of coins shown, each plate with an accompanying leaf of text describing the coins, tissue guards, contemporary black leather, sides with broad gilt-rolled panel, spine panelled by raised bands with the panels richly gilt tooled, all edges gilt, some light foxing else a fine and particularlly handsome copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- P & B Rowan
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41517
- Title
- New Illustrated Manual of the Current Gold & Silver Coins
- Author
- SKELTON, Henry P
- Format/Binding
- Contemporary calf
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- James Hagger [printed by Bär & Hermann]
- Place of Publication
- London [Leipsic (sic) printed]
- Date Published
- [1862-1863]
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- NUMISMATICS MONEY COINS ECONOMICS TRADE
Terms of Sale
P & B Rowan
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About the Seller
P & B Rowan
Biblio member since 2021
Belfast, Belfast
About P & B Rowan
Founded in 1973 P. & B. Rowan is a husband and wife team working from private premises and specializing in books and manuscripts on Ireland, Irish History & Culture, History of Ideas (including the Sciences, Medicine, Economics, Philosophy, etc), Travels and Rare Books in all fields.
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- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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