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The Diaries of John Hull

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The Diaries of John Hull
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[Hull, John]. THE DIARIES OF JOHN HULL, MINT-MASTER AND TREASURER OF THE COLONY OF MASSACHUSETTES BAY. FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT IN THE COLLECTION OF THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY. WITH A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR. In Archaeologia Americana. Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian Society. Vol. III (1857). Boston: John Wilson & Son, 1857. 8vo, later brown cloth, gilt. cxxxviii, 378, (2) pages; 1 lithographic plate depicting Hull's manuscript and Massachusetts silver; 1 tinted lithographic table depicting Hull's and Metcalfe's shorthand. [The Hull material comprises pages 109-316, the plate and the table.] Ex Katen library, with their bookplate. A bit thumbed, but still very good or better. A very important source material for anyone studying Massachusetts silver or the coinage processes in the American colonies in general. The Hull diaries make up the bulk of this issue of the American Antiquarian Society's Transactions, which is quite scarce. The Hull material consists of: an introduction by S.F. Haven on behalf of the Committee of Publication; a "Memoir" by Samuel Jennison; Hull's personal diaries; Hull's diary of public events; eight Appendices, one of them (by far the longest) on the coins of Massachusetts. Of the utmost importance to colonial collectors. Davis 526. Sigler 1339.