17th Sep, 2024 10:00
The September Auctions 2024
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Coins & Coinage: Harris (Joseph) An Essay upon Money and Coins
Coins & Coinage: Harris (Joseph) An Essay upon Money and Coins, London: G. Hawkins, 1757-58, parts 1 and 2 in one volume, 8vo, quarter calf and marbled boards, bookplate fro Lord Sandys [ESTC T58105 and T58106], together with The regulating Silver Coin, made practicable and Easie, to the Government and Subject ... By a Lover of this Country, London: Henry Bonwick, 1696, 8vo, full panelled calf with red title block to spine; further together with The Compleat Compting-House Companion: or, Young Merchant and Tradesman's Sure Guide ... New Duties on Wines, Cyder and Perry; which are contained in no other Treatise on Trade, London: for William Johnston, 1763, 8vo, full calf; Weights & Measures, privately bound volume of 10 double page engraved tables showing weights and measures for various countries, 8vo, n.d., blue calf with gilt tooling, free pages to front and back, marbled endpapers (4)
Provenance:Ombersley Court, Worcestershire
Chorley’s Auctioneers is to offer The Ombersley Court Library collected by the English aristocratic family of Sandys across five centuries.
Proceeds of the sale will will be donated to the Hartlebury Castle Preservation Trust (Charity 1127871).
Hartlebury Castle is a historic Worcestershire estate first given to Bishop Aelhun in 855AD. Home of the Bishops of Worcester until 2007. it has a longstanding connection with the Sandys family throughout its history.
Sold for £950
Coins & Coinage: Harris (Joseph) An Essay upon Money and Coins, London: G. Hawkins, 1757-58, parts 1 and 2 in one volume, 8vo, quarter calf and marbled boards, bookplate fro Lord Sandys [ESTC T58105 and T58106], together with The regulating Silver Coin, made practicable and Easie, to the Government and Subject ... By a Lover of this Country, London: Henry Bonwick, 1696, 8vo, full panelled calf with red title block to spine; further together with The Compleat Compting-House Companion: or, Young Merchant and Tradesman's Sure Guide ... New Duties on Wines, Cyder and Perry; which are contained in no other Treatise on Trade, London: for William Johnston, 1763, 8vo, full calf; Weights & Measures, privately bound volume of 10 double page engraved tables showing weights and measures for various countries, 8vo, n.d., blue calf with gilt tooling, free pages to front and back, marbled endpapers (4)
Ombersley Court, Worcestershire
THE OMBERSLEY COURT LIBRARY
Chorley’s Auctioneers is to offer The Ombersley Court Library collected by the English aristocratic family of Sandys across five centuries.
Proceeds of the sale will will be donated to the Hartlebury Castle Preservation Trust (Charity 1127871).
Hartlebury Castle is a historic Worcestershire estate first given to Bishop Aelhun in 855AD. Home of the Bishops of Worcester until 2007. it has a longstanding connection with the Sandys family throughout its history.
Harris: cover very rubbed and worn to extremities, spine very worn and split, deckled page edges, occasional spotting, pages toned, remnants of stick binding holes, endapapers foxed
Compting House: binding good if a little rubbed, scuffed and spine darkened, hinges cracked endpapers and pastedown with browned edges, two fold out tables, pages toned, not collated
Regulating: contemporary calf with polish residue, gilding rubbed and title label starting to detach, not collated, one back endpaper excised, pages toned
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