How to Detect Counterfeit Bank Notes : Or, an Illustrated Treatise on the Detection fo Counterfeit, Altered, and Spurious BANK NOTES, with Original Bank Note Plates and Designes . The whole forming an unerring guide, by which every person can, on examination, detect spurious bank notes of every description, no matter how well executed they may appear
Published by Published for the Author, New York, 1856
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Kuenzig Books ( ABAA / ILAB ), Topsfield, MA, U.S.A.Kuenzig Books ( ABAA / ILAB )
AbeBooks seller since June 21, 1998
Condition: Used - Good
US$Â 495.00
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First Edition. vii, [2], 9-45, [1] pages + 4 leaves of engraved notes printed by Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson. Publisher's cloth with gilt titles on front board. Blind stamped decorations. Staining and minor dampstaining to the boards. Top 1 1/2 inches of spine cracked and starting to separate (common with this title). Previous owner "B. G. Godfrey & Co, 239 Marker St, Philadelphia" inked on front flyleaf and penciled on the second flyleaf. Some foxing internally, generally a sound copy. Cloth. Laid in is a printout from PA-Roots about Lincoln Godfrey and his father who founded B. G. Godfrey and Company, "one of the large dry-goods commission houses in the country." Often found rebacked or with significant wear, this is a decent copy in the original cloth. "Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson (RWH&E), one of the most prominent printing and engraving firms in nineteenth-century America, was the first to receive a government contract for designing and printing U.S. postage stamps. Though the firm's production was smallonly two stamp Issuesits artistry set the standard for succeeding U.S. printing and engraving firms. The RWH&E issues were generally superior to the first stamps produced by other countries." (Smithsonian National Postal Museum).…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- How to Detect Counterfeit Bank Notes : Or, an Illustrated Treatise on the Detection fo Counterfeit, Altered, and Spurious BANK NOTES, with Original Bank Note Plates and Designes . The whole forming an unerring guide, by which every person can, on examination, detect spurious bank notes of every description, no matter how well executed they may appear
- Author
- Peyton, George (Exchange Broker); Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson (Bank Note Engravers, of New York)
- Publisher
- Published for the Author, New York
- Publication year
- 1856
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Cloth
- Edition
- First Edition.
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- Business History & Railroads
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Kuenzig Books trades in Antiquarian Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics material. Subspecialties include early computing, chemistry, photography, the history of communication, and the discoveries that have impacted the way we live and work. We buy and sell antique scientific instruments (microscopes, optics, slide rules, computers) both didactic and professional. Add a broad range of documentary photography, ephemera, and eclectic material from other fields, and most visitors find something to interest them. We welcome your visit electronically or by appointment.…
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