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HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel. Ancient Coins and Medals, London: Grant and Griffith, 1850 [but 1849]. 4 (220 x 160mm.), 114 coin relief facsimiles "By Barclay's Process" on 10 sunken mount plates (occasional spotting mainly to text, slight damage to a few coins), original "relievo" green calf (rebacked, lightly rubbed at extremities), armorial bookplate of Francis Hanbury Annesley and presentation inscription dated 1849. FIRST EDITION. See Douglas Ball's Victorian Publishers' Bindings p.146.
With Thomas Snelling's Seventy-One Plates of Gold and Silver Coin, with their Weight, Fineness and Value (London, ca. 1760), John Pinkerton's The Medallic History of England (London, 1802), John Pope-Hennessy's Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection (London, 1965), and another of related interest. (5)
With Thomas Snelling's Seventy-One Plates of Gold and Silver Coin, with their Weight, Fineness and Value (London, ca. 1760), John Pinkerton's The Medallic History of England (London, 1802), John Pope-Hennessy's Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection (London, 1965), and another of related interest. (5)