EDE, James (fl.1794-1817). A View of the Gold and Silver Coins of all Nations, Exhibited In above Four Hundred Copper Plate Engravings correctly executed by an eminent Artist, to which is added in a regular Index, The name, Assay, Weight and Value of Each; Also, Sir Isaac Newton's Tables of Foreign Gold and Silver Coins made in the Year 1700 by order of the Privy Council. [London:] Printed for J. M. Richardson, [1808]. Square 12mo (147 x 137mm). 2 engraved divisional titles, 34 engraved plates of coins, tables (lightly browned and stained throughout, some offsetting, a few mainly marginal stains, wormtracks to last few leaves). Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with red morocco lettering-piece, light blue edges. Provenance: "Mem. Amount of the Out turn produce of 100 Ounces of Standard Gold deducting Custom on Coinage ......... Rupees 3880" (old inscription on front free endpaper); old inscriptions to last two plates; Camilla Alexander, 1927 (faint pencil signature on front pastedown). FIRST EDITION. Kress 19688A. With 4 other unrelated books from the early 19th-century including John Wilson's General View of the Agriculture of Renfrewshire (Paisley, 1812, 8vo, folding hand-coloured engraved map, folding engraved frontispiece of the "Inchinnan Bridges as Executed from a Design of Robertson Buchanan", tables, original paper boards, rather worn) and Eugene Labaume's A Circumstantial Narrative of the Campaign in Russia (London, 1814, 8vo, folding hand-coloured engraved map, contemporary calf). The lot sold not subject to return. (5)
