| Description |
Burnham, Capt. Geo. P. American Counterfeits. How Detected, and How Avoided... Springfield, 1875. Small 8vo, original intricately decorated green cloth, gilt; beveled edges; all page edges gilt. 422 pages, with intermittent pages lacking from pagination, as issued; woodcut frontispiece; 11 engraved portrait plates [an additional plate called for was apparently never included in this edition]. Worn, lacking title page, which is laid in in photocopy. Good [with] Five Articles or Monographs on Colonial Counterfeiting by Kenneth Scott. Includes: Counterfeiting in Colonial Rhode Island (ex-library); "New Hampshire Tory Counterfeiters Operating from New York City"; "Counterfeiting in New York during the Revolution"; "Punishment of Coiners in the Colony of Connecticut"; and "Counterfeiting in Colonial Virginia." [with] Dillistin, William H. Bank Note Reporters and Counterfeit Detectors. New York: ANS, 1949. 8vo, original printed card covers. vi, 175, (1) pages; 19 fine plates. Offprint of article of same title also included. Generally very good. Estimate $100. Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society.
Heritage Auctions 11/2018 (Newman XI), lot15821 (realized $168).
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