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Auction 163 30 Apr 2022
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Preferred Reprint of Betts
Betts, C. Wyllys. AMERICAN COLONIAL HISTORY ILLUSTRATED BY CONTEMPORARY MEDALS. Reprint. Boston: Quarterman, 1972. 8vo, original brown cloth, gilt. (4), v, (3), 369, (1) pages; frontispiece; text illustrations; additional plates at the end. Occasional annotations throughout, generally in pencil. Very good or so. A somewhat worn but interesting copy of the best reprint of this still indispensable work, featuring added illustrations and a price guide. Some of the annotations refer to pieces in Syd's collection. Clain-Stefanelli 15025*. Voted as one of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society's "One Hundred Greatest Items of United States Numismatic Literature." Ex Byron M. Hoke, signed by him on the front flyleaf-some of the annotations may be his, though most are Syd's.
Betts, C. Wyllys. AMERICAN COLONIAL HISTORY ILLUSTRATED BY CONTEMPORARY MEDALS. Reprint. Boston: Quarterman, 1972. 8vo, original brown cloth, gilt. (4), v, (3), 369, (1) pages; frontispiece; text illustrations; additional plates at the end. Occasional annotations throughout, generally in pencil. Very good or so. A somewhat worn but interesting copy of the best reprint of this still indispensable work, featuring added illustrations and a price guide. Some of the annotations refer to pieces in Syd's collection. Clain-Stefanelli 15025*. Voted as one of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society's "One Hundred Greatest Items of United States Numismatic Literature." Ex Byron M. Hoke, signed by him on the front flyleaf-some of the annotations may be his, though most are Syd's.