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Bushnell on New York Tokens

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Bushnell on New York Tokens
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Bushnell, Charles I. AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST THREE BUSINESS TOKENS ISSUED IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. New York: Privately Printed, 1859. 12mo, 19th-century dark green half morocco, gilt, with marbled sides; spine with five raised bands, paneled, lettered and decorated in gilt; marbled endpapers; all page edges red; original printed wraps bound in. Leather sides reinforced with matching cloth. Frontispiece depicting a Mott token and two Talbot, Allum and Lee tokens, printed in metallic ink; 17, (1) pages; binding leaves added; advertisement leaf mounted to rear pastedown. Bookplate removed from front. Quite wrinkled before binding. Very good or so. An important work. Originally published by Bushnell in a limited large-paper edition, he issued this more commonly encountered (though still scarce) edition to satisfy demand for the work. He continued to add to it, however, issuing a very rare second edition that was generally unknown until the first Kolbe Ford sale. The frontispiece is a lithograph in bronze ink, and the overall production values are well above average. Includes an appendix listing sales of these tokens at auction. The advertisement leaf contains four ads, all by die sinkers. Davis 163. Ex Raymond Hale library.