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Richard Sainthill’s Very Rare 1857 Numismatic Crumbs

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Richard Sainthill’s Very Rare 1857 Numismatic Crumbs
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Sainthill, Richard. NUMISMATIC, AND OTHER CRUMBS. Cork: Printed (for Private Distribution only), by John Crowe, 1857. 12mo, recent tan linen, lettered in brown. (6), 159, (1) pages; fine lithographic rendering of the monument of Joseph Hall, Bishop of Norwich; lithographic plate depicting "Miscellaneous Coins." Margins of plates and some pages stained in corners, presumably by ink; discoloration to opening leaves and plates. Still perfectly readable and recently bound. Inscribed on the front blank by the author to Augustine O’Leary, the artist who drew the striking depicting of the Joseph Hall monument depicted on the first plate. Very good or so, with staining noted. A very rare work, the first copy we have offered since 1983. Manville lists an 1858 edition, and notes in the entry for that edition that "the British Library copy of the 1857 edition was destroyed during the World War II bombing of the British Museum." Intended only for distribution to friends of the author, it was printed in what must have been very small numbers, as was Sainthill’s more famous (and slightly more common) Olla Podrida. Sainthill (1787-1869) was a lawyer in Cork, and was a close friend of numismatists Aquilla Smith and John Lindsay. As with the Olla Podrida volumes, Sainthill’s Numismatic Crumbs are a delightful potpourri of papers on English and Irish coins by one who had close ties to most of Britain’s leading numismatists.