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Heath Variant Unlisted by Newman
Heath, Laban. HEATH'S GREATLY IMPROVED AND ENLARGED INFALLIBLE GOVERNMENT COUNTERFEIT DETECTOR, AT SIGHT.... Boston and Washington: Heath, 1866. Second edition. 16mo, original blindstamped brown cloth; front cover lettered sideways in gilt. 39, (3) pages; 2 unnumbered fractional currency plates; unnumbered folding plate showing both sides of a counterfeit $100 First National Bank of Boston note in green and black; two leaves featuring four Heath microscope illustrations printed two apiece on one side of each leaf; 15 numbered engraved plates mostly depicting bank note design elements, numbered 1-14 and 17, Plate 2 serving as a frontispiece, Plate 5 printed in green ink, several plate numbers overprinted. Plates numbered 15 and 16 not present in this variant. Latest Recommendation dated December 2, 1867. Professionally rebacked in black cloth and new endpapers, with original covers retained. Minor marginal chipping. Very good or better. Newman 2-P-s-8 (tentative). This variant was not listed in Eric P. Newman's article, nor was it identified by him afterwards. Similar to his 2-P-s-7 (not in the article but identified by Newman afterwards and included in his library sale), except that it includes the $100 First National Bank of Boston counterfeit, lacks the engraved facsimile of the Treasury Department letter, and Plate 5 is not bound as a frontispiece. It does not include the 1869-dated Casilear patent anti-alteration sample card present in Newman's 2-P-s-6, and hence may pre-date that variant. While I attempted, in cataloguing Newman's Library in the 2018 Heritage sale, to update his 1991 article, it's clear that there remains a fair amount of work to be done on the Heath Detectors. Ex Michael Sullivan Library.
Estimate: 500 USD
Heath, Laban. HEATH'S GREATLY IMPROVED AND ENLARGED INFALLIBLE GOVERNMENT COUNTERFEIT DETECTOR, AT SIGHT.... Boston and Washington: Heath, 1866. Second edition. 16mo, original blindstamped brown cloth; front cover lettered sideways in gilt. 39, (3) pages; 2 unnumbered fractional currency plates; unnumbered folding plate showing both sides of a counterfeit $100 First National Bank of Boston note in green and black; two leaves featuring four Heath microscope illustrations printed two apiece on one side of each leaf; 15 numbered engraved plates mostly depicting bank note design elements, numbered 1-14 and 17, Plate 2 serving as a frontispiece, Plate 5 printed in green ink, several plate numbers overprinted. Plates numbered 15 and 16 not present in this variant. Latest Recommendation dated December 2, 1867. Professionally rebacked in black cloth and new endpapers, with original covers retained. Minor marginal chipping. Very good or better. Newman 2-P-s-8 (tentative). This variant was not listed in Eric P. Newman's article, nor was it identified by him afterwards. Similar to his 2-P-s-7 (not in the article but identified by Newman afterwards and included in his library sale), except that it includes the $100 First National Bank of Boston counterfeit, lacks the engraved facsimile of the Treasury Department letter, and Plate 5 is not bound as a frontispiece. It does not include the 1869-dated Casilear patent anti-alteration sample card present in Newman's 2-P-s-6, and hence may pre-date that variant. While I attempted, in cataloguing Newman's Library in the 2018 Heritage sale, to update his 1991 article, it's clear that there remains a fair amount of work to be done on the Heath Detectors. Ex Michael Sullivan Library.
Estimate: 500 USD