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Extremely Rare 1849 First Edition Foote's Universal Counterfeit DetectorNew York: Oliver & Brother, Steam Printers, 1849. First edition. 32mo, modern green cloth, gilt. 20 pages; 8 woodcut text engravings of bank note design elements; folding steel-engraved bank note facsimile tipped in facing the final page. Very good. The first, extremely rare edition of one of the earliest American counterfeit detectors. Many of Foote's innovations were widely copied by later publications. It is possible that the engraved facsimile bank note, finely printed by J. Clark of New York, is not original to this copy and was instead produced only for later editions; there is no reference to it in the text or on the title page, as there is in later editions. Not listed in Dillistin. The ANS Library has only a fourth edition. Not a single copy of this edition is found on the OCLC International Library database. This copy was obtained, thus bound and with the engraved facsimile note, in the first Katen sale of the Fuld Library. A remarkable opportunity. Estimate $750. Ex: Melvin and George Fuld. Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society.
Heritage Auctions 11/2018 (Newman XI), lot15221 (realized $1020).
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