Numismatic Literature

Lot 1190    Session 4 (4.30pm Wednesday)    Numismatic Literature

Estimate $120
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $160

LOCKHART, James Haldane Stewart, Sir, The Stewart Lockhart collection of Chinese copper coins, Shanghai, Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1915, Royal Asiatic Society, North China Branch. Extra Volume no. 1, 2 + l + xv + 36 pp., 174 plates of illustrations, 31 1/2 cm.; Ting, Fu-Pao. Quan Zhi Ching Hua Lu = (A catalog of ancient Chinese coins), reprint of 1936 edition (c.1980), 240 plates (in Chinese); Wang, Y-ch'an. Early Chinese coinage, 1951, Numismatic notes and monographs, no. 122, viii + 254 pp., 55 plates, maps, 23 cm.; Robinson, John. Oriental numismatics, a catalogue of the collectoin of books relating to the coinage of the East presented to the Essex Institute of Salem, Massachusetts by John Robinson, compiled by the donor, 1913, 102 pp., 1 plate, 24 cm.; Cresswell, Chinese Cash, Durst, 1979, 120 pps. illustrated throughout; Patralas, W., Chinesische Munzen, 1965, Klinkhardt & Biermann, Braunschweig, 156 pps, including pp.105-156 as plates; Jorgensen, Holger, Ancient Chinese Coins, nd, 6 pps., 20 plates. Mostly fine, several scarce. (7)

Schjoth is one of the Standard English reference on Chinese coinage, profusely illustrated throughout with several thousand illustrations and often used as the reference for Chinese cash coins, Lockhart is another similar reference in English on these cash coins. Ting Fu Pao is the most widely recognised work on cash but is in Chinese.