English numismatics

NUMISMATICS (8). ATKINS, JAMES. The Coins and Tokens of the Possessions and Colonies of the British Empire. London (Bernard Quaritch) 1889.8:o. Illustrated.Original half leather binding, somewhat worn, gilt spine, upper edge gilt, otherwise uncut. A few marginal annotations. Signature of J. W. Hayes 1911 on first endpaper. Bookplate. And some more. (8 vol.). Consists of: Linecar: British Commonwealth Coinage (London 1959); Wright: Colonial and Commonwealth Coins. A Practical Guide to the Series (London 1959); Meek: An Authentic Record of the Currency Tokens of New Zealand issued from 1857 to 1881 (Dunedin, New Zealand 1951); Pridmore: Coins and Coinages of the Straits Settlements and British Malaya, 1786 to 1951 (Singapore 1955), Pridmore: The Coins of The British Commonwealth of Nations. I-III (London 1960-65). The first work is a classic pertaining to coinage and tokens of the British colonies including sections on the American colonies on Canada and on the West Indies.