Name: Auction: [Briscoe, John] A Discourse of Money
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 1764 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

Head of Sale, Cathy Tait, is delighted to present our first Books &amp; Manuscripts auction of 2025, which took place on Wednesday 05 February in our historic saleroom in Edinburgh and online.Manuscript and archive material lead the way in the sale, with a signed letter by Mary I of England (Mary Tudor), a fascinating English Civil War medical text and an account of a voyage undertaken by the East India Company ship the “Swift”, a journey instrumental in the treatment and prevention of scurvy.Further highlights of the sale include an intriguing collection of detective and adventure novels from the golden age of mystery fiction, a near-complete collection of the output of the T.N. Foulis Press and an extremely rare 1915 copy of the Persian Gulf Pilot.Buyer's Guide:&nbsp;

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Being an Essay on that Subject, Historically and Politically handled. With Reflections on the present evil state of the Coin of the Kingdom; and Proposals of a Method for the Remedy. In a Letter to a Nobleman, etc. London: for Sam. Briscoe, 1696. First edition, 8vo (17.7 x 11cm), [4] 204 pp., contemporary sheep ruled in blind, red-sprinkled edges, early ownership inscription (possibly ‘abundanly [sic] well handled, John Child’) to front free endpaper, light wear to binding, faint crease to title-page, a few other marks [Kress 1936]

[Briscoe, John]

A Discourse of Money

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