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Early Illustrations of American State Coppers
Barber, John Warner. THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF NEW ENGLAND, NEW YORK, AND NEW JERSEY... Worcester: Dorr, Howland & Co., 1841. 8vo, original full brown calf; spine intricately decorated and lettered in gilt. viii, (9)–576 pages; engraved frontispiece; engraved hand-colored folding map; numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, including depictions of both sides of a Pine Tree shilling and the copper coins of New Jersey, Massachusetts and Connecticut. Some foxing throughout, as is apparently typical of this title. Very good or better. Important for the early illustrations of Massachusetts silver and the state coppers of New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts: these are quite possibly the earliest depictions of the Connecticut and Massachusetts coppers. Pages 523–527 comprise an account of "Coinage, Bills of Credit, &c.," and include the numismatic illustrations noted. This is the nicest copy we have handled. Howes B124. Sigler 158 (slightly different title).
Barber, John Warner. THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF NEW ENGLAND, NEW YORK, AND NEW JERSEY... Worcester: Dorr, Howland & Co., 1841. 8vo, original full brown calf; spine intricately decorated and lettered in gilt. viii, (9)–576 pages; engraved frontispiece; engraved hand-colored folding map; numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, including depictions of both sides of a Pine Tree shilling and the copper coins of New Jersey, Massachusetts and Connecticut. Some foxing throughout, as is apparently typical of this title. Very good or better. Important for the early illustrations of Massachusetts silver and the state coppers of New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts: these are quite possibly the earliest depictions of the Connecticut and Massachusetts coppers. Pages 523–527 comprise an account of "Coinage, Bills of Credit, &c.," and include the numismatic illustrations noted. This is the nicest copy we have handled. Howes B124. Sigler 158 (slightly different title).