Lot 491 , China, numismatic (coin) reference books, published in Europe, China & Japan

China, numismatic (coin) reference books, published in Europe, China & Japan highlights include - W Vissering, On Chinese currency. Coin and paper money, publisher: Leiden, E.J. Brill, first edition 1877, paperback and spine damaged, The Stewart Lockhart Collection of Chinese Copper Coins, Lockhart, James H. Stewart, Published by Kelly & Walsh, Shanghai (1915), one vol. paper binding damaged, Werner Burger, Ch'ing Cash until 1735, one vol. Publisher: (Taipei): Mei Ya Publ., 1976, Arthur Braddan Coole 7 vols. on coins of China, republished 1970s, a facsimilie of Fisher's Ding 1990, various small catalogues and facsimilies

Estimate £50-100

Most paper covers are torn on hardbacks. All the books are dusty and have been read, some bindings and spines are broken or missing, general condition poor




Provenance - Alfred Theodore Arber-Cooke (c.1905-1993); thence by family descent. Please also view our 30th March sale, lots 105-200, for part two of this collection of Chinese and S. E. Asian coins and charms.

Arber-Cooke was an antiquarian and avid collector of Asian works of art, coins and antiquities principally collecting from the 1930s to the 1970s. He amassed a good reference library on Chinese & Asian coins and wrote on several occasions (1969-70) to to the academic F.A. Turk regarding the study of coin amulets and other non-currency coinages of China. A number of the Asian numismatic reference books will be offered in our 29th March sale.

Arber-Cooke initially lived in Wimbledon, Greater London and was involved with the Surrey Archaeological Society. He wrote the book 'Old Wimbledon', with a foreword the MP Sir Arthur Fell, published in 1927. He later moved to Llandovery in Carmarthenshire, Wales, again involved with local archaeology and wrote the History of Llandovery, published in 1975.


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Sold for £360