A Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Greek, Roman, British, Saxon, and English, Coins and...
12 pp. 8vo, early half-calf & marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. [London: 1779].
John Gerard was active as an auctioneer of books, coins, medals, and other antiquities from 1772 until his death in 1794. This is an attractive example of the sort of catalogue he issued every couple of months, interleaved and neatly priced with buyers’ names for all but the last thirty lots. The sale consisted of about 300 lots, mostly coins and miscellaneous antiquities, but with a section of 21 lots of books and manuscripts at the end of the first day. Most intriguing is lot 90: “Sebastian Munster’s brief... More