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Catalogued in the Following Lots Are Periodicals, Cancelled Library Copies, Auction Catalogues, Off-Prints from Society Journals, Etc THE REFERENCE AND WORKING LIBRARY FORMED BY CHRISTOPHER COMBER 15 OCTOBER 2020 AUCTION 51 THE CAVENDISH HOTEL 81 JERMYN STREET, ST JAMES’S, LONDON SW1Y 6JF LONDON AUCTION 51 15 October 2020 at The Cavendish Hotel, Electra Room, 81 Jermyn Street, St James’s, London, SW1Y 6JF following 30 minutes after Auction 50 - The Christopher Comber Collection Part I Many of the titles catalogued in the following lots are periodicals, cancelled library copies, auction catalogues, off-prints from society journals, etc. Some are found signed or with inked names and annotations. All are sold not subject to return. Shipping must be arranged by the purchaser – we can recommend Mail Boxes Etc.: www.mbe.co.uk/coventgarden Baldwin’s of St James’s Ltd., 10 Charles II Street, London SW1Y 4AA TEL: +44(0)20 7930 7888 | FAX: +44(0)20 7839 5500 | EMAIL: [email protected] www.bsjauctions.com GREAT BRITAIN AND ENGLAND 5001. Baldwin, A. H., Lincoln, W. S. & Son, Weight, W. C.: a bound volume of printed price-lists for the three dealers: A. H. Baldwin, Duncannon Street, Charing Cross, London, W.C., commences with ‘New Series, No. 1, December 1904’, with both coin and war medal lists; W. S. Lincoln, 2 lists only, Trade Tokens and Papal medals; W. C. Weight, approx. two thirds of the lists, c.1901-1907, approx. 40 lists in all and 1000 pp., without illustrations, trimmed and cloth bound, one or two descriptions have been cut out, otherwise th a remarkable collection of dealers’ lists from the turn of the 20 century, in good order £200-300 The dealerships of A. H. Baldwin and W. S. Lincoln are widely known, but less so William Charles Weight (1859-1923 - born only a year after Albert Henry Baldwin), who dealt mostly from 76 Ship Street, Brighton, from about 1890 to 1911. Further details, reprinted from a dealer’s list, are sold with the volume. 5002. Biggs, Norman and others: English Coin Weights, a series of printed foolscap pages of separate articles, in folder, with Lawrence, L. A., Coin Weights, from BNJ. vol. VI, 1910, pp.287-303; English Weights, an illustrated survey, 1992; Verification Marks on Weights, 1996; Crowther-Beynon, V. B., Notes on some Unusual Money Weights, reprinted from BNJ, 1931; Grains and Grammes, a table of equivalents for the use of numismatists, BM, London 1920; Withers, Paul and Bente, British Coin Weights, Llanfyllin 1993, with price guide and 2pp. notes from Comber to Withers, all good order (5) £20-40 Penultimate Ex Libris Capt. Harold E. G. Paget 5003. British Association of Numismatic Societies: Year Books, from No. 2, 1955/6 - 1965, in binder; 1966-1969, cloth bound; 1970, 1971 (2), loose; Yorkshire Numismatic Society, The Yorkshire Numismatist, vols. 1-4 (2 sets); transactions (3), 1951, 1968, 1970; Index, 1954-1969, card bound; Numismatic Society of Ireland, Bulletins 1 – 12, photocopied typescript (from Ulster Museum), 13, typescript; 14-62, 1961-2018, scarce; with sundry others (lot) £30-50 Index Ex Libris Terence J. Robertson 5004. British Museum: The Collection of Coins of Elizabeth I, a series of 42 photographic plates of the obverses and reverses of the coins in the Museum’s collection, interleaved and bound into a single volume, without text but some notes in Comber’s hand, bound in brown cloth, titled in gilt on spine, in excellent order and rare; photographic sheets of the coins of Elizabeth I in the R. C. Lockett Collection, with some explanatory notes by Comber; photographic plates of the Milled Coinage of Elizabeth I, in folder; sundry other related coin photographs (lot) £80-120 Access to the British Museum’s collection through these plates must have been an essential part of Comber’s research into Elizabethan coinage as, indeed, the Lockett plates produced by A. H. Baldwin & Sons. 5005. British Museum Catalogue – Peck, C. Wilson: English Copper, Tin and Bronze Coins in the British Museum 1558-1958, 2nd ed. (2 copies), one in good order, one ex Greenwich Public Libraries book sales, this used and thumbed and with library stamps throughout; together with Freeman, M. J, The Bronze Coinage of Great Britain (3), 1970, 1985 & 2006 editions (5) £40-60 5006. British Numismatic Journal: an excellent run of journals from 1934 to 2017; Third Series, Vol. II, 1934-5, 1936-7, + index; Vols. III & IV, 1938-9, 1939-40, 1941-2, 1942-3; Vol. V, 1945-8; Vol. VI, 1949, 1950, 1951; Vol. VII, 1952, 1953, 1954; Vol VIII, 1955, 1956, 1957; Vol. IX, 1958, 1959; Vol. X, 1960, 1961; larger size, 1962-1980; still larger size, 1981-82; 1984-87; 1990; 1994-2003; 2004-2118; Index, 1903/4-1999 [by Robert Thompson], generally in good order, the early years unbound, as issued to members, with separate covers; Vol. VII in adapted covers for Vol. VI (lot) £100-200 5007. British Numismatic Journal: a small number of duplicate volumes, 1957, soft card; 1967, 1968, 1969 (2), 1970 (2), 1974 & 1975, 1996, covers worn on 1967 and 1968; Numismatic Chronicle, Fourth Series – Vol. XIII, 1913, parts 3 & 4, bound together; Vol. XVI, 1916; with others (2): 1985; 1999; Carson, R. A. G. & Pagan, H.: A History of the Royal Numismatic Society, Oxford 1986, generally in good order (17) £35-50 1967 & 1968 BNJs Ex Libris Wilfred A. Seaby (1910-1991), one time keeper of the Ulster Museum, Belfast, with signature 5008. Brown, Joseph (of Shepton-Mallet, Somersetshire): Auction Catalogue of the ‘Entire and Valuable Museum of that well-known Collector …’, by ‘Mr. Gerard, At his House in Litchfield Street, St. Anne’s, Soho’, Wednesday, March 16, 1791 and the Three following Days, unbound, hand-priced throughout, selling 82, 82, 80 & 90 lots each day, a very rare survivor, two other copies known, these in the British Museum and the Bodleian Library, in good order £50-100 THE CHRISTOPHER COMBER COLLECTION - BOOKS 5009 5010 5009. Carlyon-Britton, Major Philip William Poole (1863-1938): The Carlyon-Britton Collection of Coins: the collector’s unique record of the coins in the collection: two quarto index books, bound in three-quarter morocco and cloth boards, his bookplate to both; each volume with some hand-written notes and the coins individually and lovingly described on a moveable tab, 6 to a page, in red and black inks, showing purchases from c. 1910-1918; Vol. I, dated May 1913, ‘Hammered English Gold Coins 1257-1662’; Vol. II, Henry VII – Charles II (though ending with Elizabeth), a superb record recorded in immaculate detail (Manville, Biographical Dictionary, p.50; cf. also BNJ 1917, p. 242 & BNJ 2001, p.144), in excellent condition (2) £1500-2000 *ex John Drury list12/1988 [£850] and A. H. Baldwin, fixed price list, January, 2014. The lot is sold with a signed letter from Carlyon-Britton (43 Bedford Square, London W.C.), dated Jan. 4th 1910, to E. De Hamel regarding the Tamworth Hoard. Egbert de Hamel (1844-1925), was the owner of Middleton Hall, Middleton, in Staffordshire for whom the hoard would have had some ‘local’ interest. He is recorded as being a ‘keen amateur photographer’ but seems to have had no lasting interest in coins. For a full and thorough description of these two catalogues, together with biographical details about Major Philip Carlyon-Britton, see A. H. Baldwin, fixed price list, January 2014, p. 180. Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge held three auctions of coins from the collection of Major Philip Carlyon-Britton, 1913-16. 5010. Comber, Christopher H.; Carlyon-Britton, Raymond Carlyon [and B. A. Seaby Ltd]: Stock books for the extended sale of the Carlyon-Britton collection; seven foolscap carbon books, ruled and priced with every sale detailed, card covers, of necessity well thumbed, and a fascinating record; notebook of rubbings of Coins of Elizabeth (c.1949), a foolscap carbon book with records of the silver coinage, with many pencilled rubbings of coins throughout, an extraordinary working document for any student of the coins of Elizabeth I, card covers; with Comber’s annotated photocopy, bound in brown buckram; Complete List of Elizabeth Silver, 1959, an album of all the Seaby listings cut and pasted by denomination, etc., bound in brown buckram, an unique record and of considerable use to Comber in his research, varied state, last in excellent condition (lot) £300-400 A lot of considerable use to any future student of the coinage of Elizabeth I. To judge by the Seaby numbering, which starts at 3195, the four stock books make an incomplete record, but for each number the R.C-B cost price, the Seaby asking and actual sale price is listed. THE CHRISTOPHER COMBER COLLECTION - BOOKS THE CHRISTOPHER COMBER COLLECTION - BOOKS 5011. Challis, Christopher E.: The Tudor Coinage (3 copies), Manchester 1978; Brooker, John; North, J. J. & others eds., The John Brooker Collection – Coins of Charles I, London 1984; Bull, Maurice, The Halfcrowns of Charles I, vols. I & IV, London 2005-9; Finn, Patrick, The Dundee Collection, catalogue for Bowers & Ruddy, 1976; Shuttlewood, Roger, half-leather bound auction catalogue, 2001; other titles, several Charles I related; and a hand-priced Wertheimer catalogue, Glendining, January 1945 (when Elizabeth I ‘Fine’ Sovereigns sold for £35 and £46 respectively; and Una and the Lion £5’ for £115), useful and generally good order (lot) £35-50 5012. Churchill, Ron: Mints and Moneyers During the Reign of Henry III, London 2012; Churchill, Ron & Thomas, Bob, The Brussels Hoard of 1908, London, 2012, numerous colour and black & white illustrations throughout the text, both as new, the second shrink-wrap sealed (2) £50-70 5013. Coin Collecting Guides, etc.: Burgess, F. W., Chats on Old Coins, 1913; Rawlings, Gertrude B., Coins and How to Know Them, 5th ed., 1935; Llewellynn Jewitt, c.1840s; G.
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