Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 4001. Estimate $100.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Ackerman, John Yonge. A Descriptive Catalogue of Rare and Unedited Roman Coins: from the Earliest Period of the Roman Coinage, to the Extinction of the Empire under Constantinus Paleologos. (London, 1834). Two Volumes: xxii, 506 pages + 512 pages, with numerous engraved plates and line illustrations. A confusing system of plate distribution; plates 1-13 are interspersed with plates A-H among the pages, while plate 14 serves as a frontispiece for the first volume. Later green cloth covers with gilt spine titles. Very Fine condition, light foxing on some of the plates. Two (2) volumes in lot. ($100)

Ex libris Joseph Jones, with his ornate bookplates.