Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 4003. Estimate $100.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $75. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Charles, Earl of Liverpool. A Treatise on the Coins of the Realm; in a Letter to the King. (London, 1805). 268 pages. A discussion of the sad state of English coinage at the beginning of the 19th century, with an appendix on gold and silver ratios in antiquity. Contemporary marbled boards with vellum spine with title strip and stamped arms of the Cornwall Library. Covers worn, a few wrinkled pages, otherwise Fine condition. ($100)