Estimate

30 - 60

Session

18 December 2014

Hammer Price

Description

Illustrated history of the United States Mint with short historical sketches and illustrations of the branch mints and assay offices and a complete description of american coinage from the earliest period to the present time; the process of melting, refining, assaying, and coining gold and silver being fully described with biographical sketches of the mint officers from its foundation to the present time to which are added a glossary of mint terms and the latest official tables of the operations of the different mints and assay offices, showing the annual products of gold and silver in the United States and foreign countries with monetary statistics of the world (…) new revised edition… Philadelphia: George G. Evans, 1893. - VI, 179, [5] p. : (23 cm) : Il. Enc. Bom exemplar, no seu interior. Muito ilustrado, no texto e em extratexto. Encadernação do editor em tela, com marcas de humidade nas pastas, ferros a ouro na pasta anterior, com medalhão representando Cristóvão Colombo.

Category

Books and Manuscripts