Lot Archive

Lot

№ 894

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13 December 2006

Hammer Price:
£130

Snelling, T., A View of the Silver Coin and Coinage of England, London, 1762, 55pp, 17 engraved plates; bound with Snelling, T., A View of the Gold Coin and Coinage of England, London, 1763, iv + 38pp, 7 engraved plates. Original boards, spine becoming detached; title page signed Garbett and a number of annotations in margins in his hand, some dated in the 1780s and 1790s, an interesting volume by association (£60-80)

Provenance:
Ex libris Samuel Garbett, Birmingham
Hilbo Nielsen, Petersfield.

Samuel Garbett (1717-1803), entrepreneur, political lobbyist and coinage reformer, chairman of the Birmingham Commercial Committee, was a close friend of Matthew Boulton