Lot 353
Reports past the Committee at Goldsmiths-hall, first edition, by Richard Cotes, 1649; and 74 others on Gold and Silver testing, weights and measures, hall-marking etc (75)
Hammer Price: £750
Description
Reports past the Committee at Goldsmiths-hall, first edition, first 3ff. crudely repaired with tape, additional leaves paginated 13-30 at end, not called for by ESTC, modern half calf, [Wing E2232A; ESTC R206360 locates 7 copies in UK and none in N. America], by Richard Cotes, 1649 § Alldridge (J.) The Goldsmith's Repository, half-title repaired at outer margin to verso, folding table, library calf-backed cloth, 1789 § His Majesties Gracious Patent to the Goldsmiths, For Payment and Satisfaction of their Debt, later half calf, joints cracked, rubbed, [Wing C3039], by John Bill, Christopher Barker, Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills, 1677 § Ward (James) A History of Gold, frontispiece, folding hand-coloured geological map of Victoria and New South Wales slightly frayed at fore-edge, later half morocco, London & Dublin, n.d.; and 71 others on Gold and Silver testing, weights and measures, hall-marking etc., v.s. (75)
Description
Reports past the Committee at Goldsmiths-hall, first edition, first 3ff. crudely repaired with tape, additional leaves paginated 13-30 at end, not called for by ESTC, modern half calf, [Wing E2232A; ESTC R206360 locates 7 copies in UK and none in N. America], by Richard Cotes, 1649 § Alldridge (J.) The Goldsmith's Repository, half-title repaired at outer margin to verso, folding table, library calf-backed cloth, 1789 § His Majesties Gracious Patent to the Goldsmiths, For Payment and Satisfaction of their Debt, later half calf, joints cracked, rubbed, [Wing C3039], by John Bill, Christopher Barker, Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills, 1677 § Ward (James) A History of Gold, frontispiece, folding hand-coloured geological map of Victoria and New South Wales slightly frayed at fore-edge, later half morocco, London & Dublin, n.d.; and 71 others on Gold and Silver testing, weights and measures, hall-marking etc., v.s. (75)
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