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Lot of Reference Works on Chinese Currency

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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.</B></I><B><I> Catalogue of Chinese Coins From the VIIth Century B.C., to A.D. 621</B></I></B></I> Including the Series in the British Museum.<I> </B></I>London: Printed by Order of Trustees of the British Museum, 1892. First edition. Quarto. 443 pages. Profusely illustrated. Original maroon cloth boards with gilt titles, in a custom slipcase with gilt titles. Moderate staining to boards, exterior front hinge has a one inch split, binding shaken, former owner's book plate on the inside front cover, good condition.<BR><BR><B>J.H. Stewart Lockhart.</B></I><B><I> A Guide to the Inscriptions on the Coins of the Farther East,</B></I></B></I> With Special Reference to the Glover Collection and a Chronology of the Dynasties and Emperors of China, Annam, and Japan, Volume III.<I> </B></I>Hong Kong: Noronha & Company, 1898. First edition. Quarto. 77 pages, LIX pages of tables. Stiff paper covers, in custom slipcase with gilt titles. Light pencil notations, covers darkened and chipped around the edges, internal pages age toned, former owner's book plate on the front free endpaper, else in good condition.<BR><BR><B>H.A. Ramsden</B></I><B><I> Series of Bound Manuals on Chinese Coins and Paper Money</B></I></B></I> including "Modern Chinese Copper Coins." Worcester: Numismatist Press, 1911. Octavo. 27 pages. Illustrated, stiff wraps. Very good. "Model-Insect Money of Ancient China." Yokohama: Numismatic & Philatelic Printers and Publishers, 1914. Octavo. 22 pages. Illustrated, stiff wraps. Very good. "Chinese Paper Money." Yokohama: Numismatic & Philatelic Publishers, 1911. Octavo. 37 pages. Illustrated, stiff wraps. Very good. "Chinese Openwork Amulet Coins." Yokohama: Numismatic & Philatelic Publishers, 1911. 60 pages. Illustrated, stiff wraps. Very good. "Corean [sic] Coin Charms and Amulets." Yokohama: Numismatic & Philatelic Publishers, 1910. Octavo. 40 pages. Stiff wraps. Very good. "Siamese Porcelain and Other Tokens." Yokohama: Numismatic & Philatelic Publishers, 1911. Octavo. 37 pages. Color plates, stiff wraps. Very good. and "Annam and its Minor Currency." by Edward Toda, [No place or publisher, 1881]. Octavo. Numbered pages 41 through 220. Illustrated. Very good.<BR><BR><B>Andrew McFarland Davis.</B></I><B><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]. Octavo. Numbered 467 through 647. Numerous illustrations. Institutionally bound in maroon cloth with gilt titles. Former owner's book plate on the front free endpaper. Very good condition.<BR><BR><B>Kalgan Shih</B></I><B><I> Modern Coins of China.</B></I></B></I> Shanghai: Sin-Hwa, circa 1949. First edition thus. Octavo. 198 pages. Profusely illustrated. Chinese text, in custom slipcase with gilt titles. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles and decoration, in jacket. 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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