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Priced & Named 1832 Trattle Sale, with Letter from Trattle
Sotheby and Son. A CATALOGUE OF THE UNIQUE COLLECTION OF COINS AND MEDALS, IN GOLD, SILVER, AND COPPER, OF THE LATE HIGHLY DISTINGUISHED AND WELL-KNOWN COLLECTOR, MARMADUKE TRATTLE, ESQ. London, May 30–July 13, 1832 [including hiatuses]. 8vo, contemporary green half morocco, gilt, with marbled sides; spine with five raised bands, lettered and decorated in gilt; marbled endpapers; top page edges gilt. (6), 204, (2) pages plus extra leaf (p. 83*) tipped in; 3387 lots; frontispiece medallic portrait plate of Trattle added. Hand-priced and named in ink throughout. Handwritten letter, from Trattle to Joseph Fry, dated Saturday May 24 (1823), laid in. Minor wear to binding. Very good or better. A very handsome and original copy of one of the most important numismatic auctions of the 19th century, with a letter from Trattle on the subject of coins laid in. The sale is particularly significant for Greek, Roman and British coins, and for European medals. Marmaduke Trattle (1752–1831) purchased entire collections en bloc and incorporated them into his own holdings, resulting in this lengthy sale that took 28 days to hold (at an admittedly less-than-blistering average pace of 121 lots a day). The sale as a whole brought over £10,900, an amazing sum. The letter reads: "Mr. Trattle requests leave to repeat his thanks for Mr. Fry for his recent Present of Coins, many of which being in duplicate to Mr. T, and as Mr. F.'s Young Collecting Friend from the Country, is now in Town, Mr. T. takes the liberty, which he otherwise would not be so rude, as to do,–of returning such as are similar to what Mr. T. already possesses." We have encountered another copy with the added medallic portrait of Trattle, based on a wax portrait of him, with a note indicating that it was added when bound by W. Warrington. Clain-Stefanelli 10558. Manville and Robertson 1832-9.
Sotheby and Son. A CATALOGUE OF THE UNIQUE COLLECTION OF COINS AND MEDALS, IN GOLD, SILVER, AND COPPER, OF THE LATE HIGHLY DISTINGUISHED AND WELL-KNOWN COLLECTOR, MARMADUKE TRATTLE, ESQ. London, May 30–July 13, 1832 [including hiatuses]. 8vo, contemporary green half morocco, gilt, with marbled sides; spine with five raised bands, lettered and decorated in gilt; marbled endpapers; top page edges gilt. (6), 204, (2) pages plus extra leaf (p. 83*) tipped in; 3387 lots; frontispiece medallic portrait plate of Trattle added. Hand-priced and named in ink throughout. Handwritten letter, from Trattle to Joseph Fry, dated Saturday May 24 (1823), laid in. Minor wear to binding. Very good or better. A very handsome and original copy of one of the most important numismatic auctions of the 19th century, with a letter from Trattle on the subject of coins laid in. The sale is particularly significant for Greek, Roman and British coins, and for European medals. Marmaduke Trattle (1752–1831) purchased entire collections en bloc and incorporated them into his own holdings, resulting in this lengthy sale that took 28 days to hold (at an admittedly less-than-blistering average pace of 121 lots a day). The sale as a whole brought over £10,900, an amazing sum. The letter reads: "Mr. Trattle requests leave to repeat his thanks for Mr. Fry for his recent Present of Coins, many of which being in duplicate to Mr. T, and as Mr. F.'s Young Collecting Friend from the Country, is now in Town, Mr. T. takes the liberty, which he otherwise would not be so rude, as to do,–of returning such as are similar to what Mr. T. already possesses." We have encountered another copy with the added medallic portrait of Trattle, based on a wax portrait of him, with a note indicating that it was added when bound by W. Warrington. Clain-Stefanelli 10558. Manville and Robertson 1832-9.