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Lot of Reference Works on Chinese Currency

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Cultures & Ethnicities Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 400.00 USD
Lot of Reference Works on Chinese Currency
<B>Collection of Reference Works on Chinese Coins and Paper Money</B></I> including:<BR><B>Terrien De Lacouperie<I> Catalogue of Chinese Coins From the VIIth Century B.C., to A.D. 621</B></I></B></I> <I>Including the Series in the British Museum.</B></I> (London: Printed by Order of Trustees of the British Museum, 1892), first edition, 443 pages, profusely illustrated, original maroon cloth boards with gilt titles, in a purpose made slipcase with gilt titles, deckled pages, 4to (7.5" x 11.5"), moderate staining to boards, exterior front hinge has 1.5" split, binding shaken, former owner's book plate on the inside front cover, good condition.<BR><B>J.H. Stewart Lockhart<I> A Guide to the Inscriptions on the Coins of the Farther East,</B></I></B></I> <I>With Special Reference to the Glover Collection and a Chronology of the Dynasties and Emperors of China, Annam, and Japan, Volume III.</B></I> (Hong Kong: Noronha & Company, 1898), first edition, 77 pages, LIX pages of tables, stiff paper covers, in purpose made slipcase with gilt titles, 4to (7.75" x 10.25), light pencil notations, covers darkened and chipped around the edges, internal pages age toned, former owner's book plate on the ffep, else good condition.<BR><B>H.A. Ramsden<I> Series of Bound Manuals on Chinese Coins and Paper Money</B></I></B></I> including "Modern Chinese Copper Coins" (Worcester: Numismatist Press, 1911), 27 pages, illustrated, stiff wraps, 8vo (6" x 9"), very good; "Model-Insect Money of Ancient China" (Yokohama: Numismatic & Philatelic Printers and Publishers, 1914), 22 pages, illustrated, stiff wraps, 8vo (6" x 9"), very good; "Chinese Paper Money" (Yokohama: Numismatic & Philatelic Publishers, 1911), 37 pages, illustrated, stiff wraps, 8vo (6" x 9"), very good; "Chinese Openwork Amulet Coins" (Yokohama: Numismatic & Philatelic Publishers, 1911), 60 pages, illustrated, stiff wraps, 8vo (6" x 9"), very good; "Corean sic Coin Charms and Amulets" (Yokohama: Numismatic & Philatelic Publishers, 1910), 40 pages, stiff wraps, 8vo (6" x 9"), very good; "Siamese Porcelain and Other Tokens" (Yokohama: Numismatic & Philatelic Publishers, 1911), 37 pages, color plates, stiff wraps, 8vo (6" x 9"), very good; and "Annam and its Minor Currency" by Edward Toda, (No place or publisher, 1881), numbered pages 41 through 220, illustrated, 8vo (6" x 9"), very good.<BR><B>Andrew McFarland Davis<I> Monograph on Ancient Chinese Paper Money as Described in a Chinese Work on Numismatics.</B></I></B></I> (No place of publication: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1918), numbered 467 through 647, numerous illustrations, institutionally bound in maroon cloth with gilt titles, 8vo (6.5" x 9.5"), former owner's book plate on the ffep, very good condition.<BR><B>Kalgan Shih<I> Modern Coins of China.</B></I></B></I> (Shanghai: Sin-Hwa, circa 1949), first edition thus, 198 pages, profusely illustrated, Chinese text, in purpose made slipcase with gilt titles, blue cloth boards with gilt titles and decoration, in jacket, 8vo (6.5" x 9.25"), with two copies of the English translation, 96 pages, stiff wraps, all in fine condition.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Books & Catalogs (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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