Early Publications on Massachusetts Currency
Davis, Andrew McFarland [editor]. TRACTS RELATING TO THE CURRENCY OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY, 1682–1720. Boston and New York, 1902. 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt; top page edges gilt. Frontispiece; x, 394, (2) pages; 17 plates. Fine. John Ford's copy of this important collection of eighteen early tracts, many of which are extremely rare in their original form. Davis's compilation made available to numismatic and economic historians a great wealth of original source data previously unavailable outside the great historical institutions of New England. Clain-Stefanelli 13335*. Kolbe 248. Ex Kolbe Sale 102, lot 218.