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The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Adams, S., The Essex Collection of post 1820 tokens, tallies & medallions, np, 1993, 296pp, profusely illustrated throughout, copy no.104. A fine copy of this useful treatise (£15-20)
Hammer Price: £40
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Akerman, J.Y., Tradesmen’s Tokens, current in London and its vicinity between the years 1648 and 1672, London, 1849, viii + 257pp, 8 engraved plates. Lacking binding; the whole book extensively annotated and amended by Preston-Morley as a direct copy of the volume of this reference owned by J.H. Burn, including a transcript of a letter from Benjamin Nightingale to Robert Boyne, 2 Dec. 1847, which describes Akerman as ‘analysing the BM...
Hammer Price: £35
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Bell, R.C., Commercial Coins 1787-1804, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1963, 319pp, illustrated throughout. Publishers’ blue cloth and boards, a clean copy, internally fine, with d.j. [this slightly stained]; signed by the author, September 1976, on inside front cover (£30-40)
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Bell, R.C., Copper Commercial Coins 1811-1819, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1964, xvii + 238pp, illustrated throughout. Publishers’ red cloth; an extremely fine and fresh copy, with d.j.; signed by the author, September 1996, on inside front cover (£30-40)
Hammer Price: £45
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Bell, R.C., Tradesmen’s Tickets and Private Tokens, 1785-1819, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1966, xii + 315pp, illustrated throughout. Publishers’ blue cloth; an extremely fine and fresh copy, with d.j. [this a trifle scuffed]; signed by the author, September 1996, on inside front cover (£30-40)
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Bell, R.C., Specious Tokens and those struck for General Circulation, 1784-1804, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1968, xvii + 257pp, illustrated throughout. Publishers’ blue cloth; an extremely fine and fresh copy, with d.j., valuation sheet tipped-in; signed by the author, September 1996, on inside front cover (£30-40)
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Bell, R.C., Unofficial Farthings 1820-1870, London, 1975, Introduction + 248pp, profusely illustrated throughout. Publishers’ light tan cloth, virtually as new, with d.j.; now scarce (£20-30)
Hammer Price: £30
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Bell, R.C., The Building Medalets of Kempson and Skidmore, 1796-1797, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1978, 183pp, illustrated throughout. Publishers’ blue rexine; an extremely fine and fresh copy, with d.j.; signed by the author, Northampton, September 1996, on inside front cover (£20-30)
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Bell, R.C., Whitmore, J., and Sweeny, J.O., Bell’s Unofficial Farthings: A Supplement, Malvern, 1994, viii + 237pp, 43 plates. A fine copy of this definitive reference; signed ‘Happy Hunting’ by R.C. Bell, September 1996, on inside front cover (£20-30)
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Berry, G., and Morley, P., A Revised Survey of the Seventeenth-Century Tokens of Buckinghamshire, London, 1973, pp.96-125, 2 plates. Publishers’ blue card covers; some minor amendments to text by Preston-Morley and signed by him on first free endpaper, otherwise a very fine copy (£15-25)
Hammer Price: £15
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Boon, G.C., Welsh Tokens of the 17th Century, Cardiff, 1973, 144pp. With some neat amendments to the text by Preston-Morley, otherwise a fine copy of this important reference; together with the 4pp Supplement, 1976, signed by the author, tipped-in (£25-35)
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Boyne, W., Tokens issued in the Seventeenth Century in England, Wales and Ireland, London, 1858, xxiii + 630pp, 42 engraved plates. Original green decorated cloth, spine gilt; internally complete, but four plates loose and some plates heavily foxed, spine somewhat fragile; signed by Manton on title page (£40-60)
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, British & Irish Tokens Journal, Dublin, vol.1, no.1 [August 1980], iii + 50pp, illustrations in text. Publishers’ blue card covers, a very fine copy, now rare; a handwritten draft of Preston-Morley’s review of the publication for BNJ tipped-in (£15-25)
Hammer Price: £75
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Buckinghamshire: The original notebook recording the collection of Bucks 17th century tokens formed by Sir Ambrose Heal, catalogued by Edwin Hollis, September 1934, including prices paid and noting which specimens were given to Wycombe Museum, December 1945; together with seven ALS from Edwin Hollis to Heal, dated 1927-34, and one ALS from J.O. Manton to Hollis, 12 April 1927, all relating to Bucks tokens, and especially issues of Colnbrook...
Hammer Price: £190
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society, Records of Buckinghamshire, Aylesbury, vol.4, no.3 [1872], vol.10, no.3 [1912], vol.12, nos.1 and 6 [1927, 1932], vol.13, pt 4 [1937], vol.14, pt 1 [1941], vol.15, pt 3 [1949], vol.18, pt 2 [1967]; together with a reprint of the article by G. Berry, ‘Notes on Seventeenth-Century Token Issuers of Chesham’, from vol.18, pt 5 [1971]. Publishers’ bindings, some early parts with pages mostly uncut; a...
Hammer Price: £130
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Christie’s [London], Catalogue of Ancient, Foreign and English Coins and Medallions, including the D.L. Cornell Collection of Norfolk Tokens, 18 February 1986, an extensively annotated catalogue, with all prices and buyers’ names; together with an album containing enlarged photographs of all the 17th century tokens in the collection alphabetically from Aylsham to Mileham [Lot]. A useful reference for Norfolk tokens (£40-60)
Hammer Price: £65
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Conder, J., An Arrangement of Provincial Coins, Tokens and Medalets issued in Great Britain, Ireland and the Colonies, London, 1798, address, preface [by J. Wright], 330pp + errata page, 3 engraved plates. Later red half-morocco, back gilt, with integral bookmark; signed Charles I. Bushnell on first free endpaper and some light pencil checkmarks relating to Bushnell’s collection in text, also signed by Farran Zerbe, and with the oval stamp...
Hammer Price: £210
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, The ‘Conder’ Token Newsletter, vol.I, nos.1-4; vol.II, nos.1-2, Maple Grove, Minnesota, August 1996-November 1997; The ‘Conder’ Token Collector’s Journal, vol.III, nos.1-4; vol.IV, nos.1-4; vol.V, nos.1-4; vol.VI, nos.1-4; vol.VII, no.1, Maple Grove and St Paul, Minnesota, March 1998-Spring 2002 [23]. A very fine and complete run of this lively publication, including many interesting articles on 18th century tokens (£40-60)
Hammer Price: £110
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Costello, T.B., and Blake, M.J., Trade Tokens of the County of Galway in the Seventeenth Century, with Notes on the Issuers, Galway, 1911, 17pp, including 5 engraved plates. Green paper cover cut at bottom, but internally fine and fresh, rare (£20-30)
Hammer Price: £85
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Cotton, W.A., The Coins, Tokens and Medals of Worcestershire, Bromsgrove, 1885, [xii] + 147pp, rectos, engraved plates and a few engraved illustrations in text, copy no.56. Publishers’ cream boards, gilt tooling at edges; binding rather rubbed, but internally very fine and fresh; with signature of A. Cotton on inside front cover (£90-120)
Hammer Price: £230
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Cox, B.G., The Seventeenth Century Token Coinage of Blandford Forum, Dorset, Blandford, 1983, 9pp rectos, illustrations; Coles, P., The Wimborne Trade Tokens 1657-1670, 23pp, engraved illustrations; Udal, J.S., Dorsetshire Folk-Lore, 2nd edn, St Peter Port, 1970, and 3rd edn, Exeter, 1989; together with an exercise book containing a detailed record of the British Museum’s collection of Dorset tokens compiled by Preston-Morley, and...
Hammer Price: £100
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Cox, N. and A., The Tokens, Checks, Metallic Tickets, Passes and Tallies of Wales, 1800-1993, Cardiff, 1994, 283pp, illustrated in text. A virtually mint copy (£20-30)
Hammer Price: £20
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Davis, W.J., The Nineteenth Century Token Coinage [London, 1904], xlvii + 284pp, 15 plates and extra illustrations in text. The 1969 Seaby reprint; publishers’ blue cloth, a very fine copy (£40-60)
Hammer Price: £80
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, [Deane, A., and others], Belfast Public Art Gallery and Museum: Catalogue of Irish Tokens, 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries, Belfast, 1913, 67pp, engraved illustrations in text. Publishers’ buff card cover; internally very fine, but binding staples missing (£20-30)
Hammer Price: £95
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Devonshire Association, Report & Transactions, Torquay, vol.lxxvii [1945], xii + 308pp. Publishers’ blue paper covers, a fine copy; with ALS from Mrs J. Edyvean, Asst Secretary, dated 17.viii.1973, regarding articles on trade tokens in the Transactions between 1872 and 1944 (£20-30)
Hammer Price: £25
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Dix Noonan Webb [London], The R.C. Bell Collection of British Trade Tokens; the original 60pp manuscript list of the collection in the owner’s hand, together with a complete single column draft proof of the catalogue with some minor amendments, an early draft of the foreword and correspondence between Fred Schwer and Preston-Morley regarding the cataloguing of the collection; together with a copy of the printed catalogue, 1 October 1996, 311...
Hammer Price: £150
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Drury, H.C., The Later XIXth Century Farthing Tokens of Ireland, Dublin, 1920, 15pp; Rice, G., The Seventeenth-Century Tokens of County Louth, Louth, 1984, 17pp. [2]. Publishers’ bindings; both fine copies, but former with minor pencil checkmarks (£20-30)
Hammer Price: £50
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Halifax Antiquarian Society: printed copies of lectures to, and articles by, S.H. Hamer, all relating to tokens, 1904-20, one extensively annotated by Hamer and with two pencil notes tipped-in; together with a printed note of the Halifax tokens bought by members of the Society at the Hamer sale in 1930 and presented to Bankfield Museum in his memory [Lot] (£10-20)
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Henderson, A.C., Hop Tokens of Kent and Sussex & their issuers, London, 1990, 128pp, incorporating 60 plates; Clark, E.H., Kentish Hop Tokens and their Issuers, Maidstone, 1930, 19pp, including illustrations [2]. First virtually as new, second a photocopy (£15-25)
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Hoare, Capt E., Early and Modern Tokens bearing the names of Hoare, etc, London, 1880, 4pp, 1 engraved plate; Gray, H. St George, and Symonds, H., Somerset Trade Tokens, XVII Century: new types and varieties, and corrections of former lists, Taunton, 1915, 13pp, engraved illustrations; Wells, W.C., The Hartwell Token, Manchester, 1936, 8pp; Caldecott, J.B., The Penfold Bequest: Coins and Tokens, Brighton, 1943, 15pp, illustrated in text;...
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Hocking, W.J., Catalogue of the Coins, Medals, Dies and Seals in the Museum of the Royal Mint, 2 vols, London, 1906-10, viii + 460, ii + 318pp [2]. Publishers’ decorated blue cloth, spine lettering in gilt; an extremely fine and attractive set (£60-80)
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Jacob, K.A., The Cambridge Trade Tokens of the 17th and 18th centuries and the traders who issued them, np, nd [1971-7], 37pp, photocopied rectos. Modern green cloth and boards, scarce (£15-25)
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Jewitt, L. [with Head, B.], English Coins and Tokens, London, 1888, 128pp, engraved illustrations in text; Halstead, Major D., The Token Coinage of Great Britain, 8pp, np, nd; Whiting, J.R.S., Trade Tokens, A Social and Economic History, Newton Abbot, 1971, 192pp, including several plates; Lowe, G.J., An Introduction to British Tokens, Vancouver, 1975, 55pp, a mix of illustrations in text [4]. Second in later green cloth, lettering in gilt on...
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Judson, E. and Eileen, A Re-Listing of the Seventeenth Century Trade Tokens of Essex, Haverhill, 1973, 48pp; Judson, Eileen, The Lives and Wills of Essex Token Issuers, incorporating a re-listing of the Seventeenth Century Trade Tokens of Essex, np, 1987, iii + 270pp [2]. First with minor amendments to text by the compilers, otherwise a clean working copy, with ALS from Edward Judson dated 16.iv.1973 and notes by Preston-Morley for a book...
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Kelly, E.M., Spanish Dollars and Silver Tokens, London, 1976, ii + 151pp, 8 plates. An extremely fine copy of this standard reference; with d.j. (£25-35)
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Kempson, E.G.H., Indictments for the Coining of Tokens in Seventeenth-Century Wiltshire, London, 1973, 6pp; Kempson, E.G.H., Wiltshire XVII Century Tokens, 1st edn, Salisbury, June 1978, 28pp, and 2nd edn, Salisbury, September 1978, 28pp; Wiltshire Numismatic Society, Bulletin, vol.1, nos.1-4 [July 1969-November 1970] [7]. Publishers’ bindings, a scarce group; second signed by the author, with ALS from Kempson to Preston-Morley and...
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Kent, G.C., British Coins and Tokens, Chichester, 1913, xxvii + 352pp; Matthias, P., English Trade Tokens, London, 1962, 64pp including 16 plates; Berry, G., Discovering Coins, Tring, 1968, 56pp, including plates; Berry, G., Discovering Trade Tokens, Tring, 1969, 56pp, including plates; Boon, G.C., Welsh Industrial Tokens & Medals, Cardiff, 1973, profusely illustrated in text; Hawker, C.R., Druid Tokens, Studley, 1996, viii + 70pp, illustrated...
Hammer Price: £55
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Lowe-Warren, J., Sussex Tokens issued during the XVIIth, XVIIIth & XIXth Centuries, 1st edn, London, 1888, 30pp + index and list of subscribers. Original maroon decorated cloth, titles in gilt, extremely rare; minor pencil checkmarks in text, signed on first free endpaper by Carey H. Borrer, Hurstpierpoint Rectory, 14 July 1888, and A.W. Fuller, 19 Novr. 1941 (£60-80)
Hammer Price: £140
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Milne, J.G., Catalogue of Oxfordshire Seventeenth Century Tokens, Oxford, 1935, xx + 48pp, xvi plates. Original buff card covers; a very fine copy (£25-35)
The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Minnitt, S.C., Durnell, J., and Gunstone, A.J.H., Somerset Public House Tokens, Bridgwater, 1985, 144pp, profusely illustrated throughout; Minnitt, S.C., and Young, D., Tickets Checks & Passes from the County of Somerset, Bridgwater, 1990, 114pp, profusely illustrated; incorporates a Supplementary List by Durnell to the 1985 work [2]. Publishers’ card bindings, very fine copies of these excellent standard references; latter with dedication...
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