Lot 260
Numismatics.- Coins.- Leake (Stephen Martin) An Historical Account Of English Money From The Conquest to the Present Time, third edition, Sir Cuthbert Sharp's copy, 1793.
Hammer Price: £4,200
Description
Numismatics.- Coins.- Leake (Stephen Martin) An Historical Account Of English Money From The Conquest to the Present Time, third edition, Sir Cuthbert Sharp's copy with his bookplate to pastedown, and ink annotations and drawings to margins with several additional ff. with notes, ink and graphite drawings, 14 hand-coloured engraved plates, bookplate of John Fenwick, Newcastle, to endpaper, contemporary half calf, rebacked, new endpapers, 8vo, for R. Faulder & c., 1793.
⁂ Sir Cuthbert Sharp (1781-1849) soldier and antiquary, he notes on the front free endpaper "The notes in this book cost me much labour & attention", included are engravings and drawings of coins from Sharp's collection.
Description
Numismatics.- Coins.- Leake (Stephen Martin) An Historical Account Of English Money From The Conquest to the Present Time, third edition, Sir Cuthbert Sharp's copy with his bookplate to pastedown, and ink annotations and drawings to margins with several additional ff. with notes, ink and graphite drawings, 14 hand-coloured engraved plates, bookplate of John Fenwick, Newcastle, to endpaper, contemporary half calf, rebacked, new endpapers, 8vo, for R. Faulder & c., 1793.
⁂ Sir Cuthbert Sharp (1781-1849) soldier and antiquary, he notes on the front free endpaper "The notes in this book cost me much labour & attention", included are engravings and drawings of coins from Sharp's collection.
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