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Vols. 4 and 5 of the Numismatist

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Vols. 4 and 5 of the Numismatist
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[American Numismatic Association]. THE NUMISMATIST AND YEAR BOOK FOR 1892. Vol. 4, Nos. 1-6, complete. [bound with] THE NUMISMATIST AND YEAR BOOK FOR 1892. Vol. V, Nos. 1-6, complete. Monroe, Michigan: Dr. Geo. F. Heath, January-June 1892 and July-December 1892. Twelve issues complete, bound in one volume. Small 8vo, later red and black cloth, gilt; original printed wraps bound in. Vol. IV: 18; ii, (21)-28, iii-iv, 29-30; (31)-46; (49)-66; (69)-86; (89)-106 pages; 6 portrait plates; text illustrations. Vol. V: (3)-18; (19)-34; (37)-52; (57)-76; (77)-92; (93)-112 pages; 2 portrait plates and two other plates, one double-page; text illustrations. Vol. IV issues folded for mailing. Generally fine. The two volumes comprising 1892, seldom offered complete. Heath's Numismatic Headlights commences with Vol. 4. Additionally, six biographies accompanied by halftone portraits are featured--Lyman Haynes Low, Samuel Hudson Chapman, Ed. Frossard, Joseph Hooper, Joseph Leroux, and David Harlow--with two more (Charles Taylor Tatman and Herbert E. Morey) following in Vol. 5. Other plates include a double-page table of China, the Mandchu Dynasty, and a plate of The Proposed World's Fair Souvenir Half Dollar, markedly different from the adopted design. Quite scarce. Ex Michael Spurlock library.