Auction Catalogue

7 December 2011

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Celtic, British and World Coins, Jetons, Numismatic Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 898

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7 December 2011

Hammer Price:
£290

Thoresby, R., Ducatus Leodiensis: Or, The Topography Of The Ancient And Populous Town And Parish Of Leedes, And Parts Adjacent, In The West-Riding Of The County Of York…A Catalogue Of His Musæum, With The Curiosities Natural And Artificial, And The Antiquities; Particularly The Roman, British, Saxon, Danish, Norman, And Scotch Coins, With Modern Medals, Also A Catalogue Of Manuscripts…, 2nd edn, With Notes and Additions by Thomas Dunham Whitaker, Leeds/Wakefield, 1816, frontispiece portrait of the author, iv, xvi, xvii, vignette, 268pp, numerous genealogical tables (Manville 274). Elephant folio; contemporary brown boards, worn, rebacked in blue cloth, some pages uncut £300-400