Lindsay, John
Author, A View Of The Coinage Of Ireland (1839).
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1839A View Of The Coinage Of Ireland, From The Invasion Of The Danes To The Reign Of George Iv
4to, original cloth-backed boards, professionally rebacked long ago; housed in modern matching slipcase with printed spine label. (4), iv, 143, (1) pages; 8 tables; 9 + 5 lithographic plates of coins. Spine rubbed; contents a bit foxed as usual. Very good. A major early work on Irish coins, which built on the earlier work by Simon and the supplement to that work by Snelling. As stated in the Preface, Lindsay maintained much of Simon’s work on the Anglo-Irish coinage, but provided much new material on the Hiberno-Danish coinage. John Lindsay (1789–1870) was an Irish barrister who collected and published on a number of numismatic subjects. Clain-Stefanelli 10128*. Leitzmann 78.
1852A View Of The History And Coinage Of The Parthians, With Descriptive Catalogues And Tables, Illustrated With A Complete Set Of Engravings Of Coins, A Large Number Of Them Unpublished
Contemporary or somewhat later plain clothbacked boards. vii, (1), 250, (2) pages; 12 lithographic plates, some tinted. Inscribed and signed by the author on front flyleaf. Hinge cracked, but binding intact; boards scuffed and stained; very good. A major early work on Parthian coins. John Lindsay (1789–1870) was an Irish barrister who collected and published on a number of numismatic subjects. His work on Parthian coins is one of the earliest substantive publications, preceding Gardner’s Parthian Coinage by a generation. It benefitted from Eckhel’s corrections of many of the assumptions underlying Vaillant’s foundational 1725 work. Leitzmann 78 (citing 1853).
