Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Coins and Medals, of the late General Ainslie, Author of "Illustrations of the Anglo-French Coinage," [...] The collection comprises his entire [...] series of Anglo-French coins.
Publication details:
At S. Leigh Sotheby's, 3 Wellington Street, Street, London, 3 to 6 June 1840.
£265.00
SKU: 10536
4to, 31 pp. In original grey printed wraps, with the bookseller's ticket of Messrs. Bolster of Cork. Text clear and complete. A fair, tight copy, on aged paper. In worn red calf quarter-binding, red cloth. Neatly priced up in manuscript (the sale totalled £803 4s 6d), and ruled with red lines. According to his entry in the Oxford DNB, Ainslie had travelled all over England, 'and, what was then unusual, all over the rural districts of Normandy and Brittany', in search of the Anglo-Norman coins in which he specialized, publishing the result of his work in 1830 in a magnificent quarto entitled 'Anglo-French Coinage'.