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Extracts from ‘Histoire Métallique des … Pays-Bas’ by Gerard Van Loon

Reference code
HAG/01
Title
Extracts from ‘Histoire Métallique des … Pays-Bas’ by Gerard Van Loon
Date
c. 1827
Level of description
item
Extent and format
pp. iii + 201, 98.
Quarto.
Half leather binding, brown, with marbled boards.
Scope and content
Extracts from Gerard Van Loon, Histoire Métallique des.. Pays-Bas (1732-7), translated by William Debonaire Haggard, FSA (d. c. 1865) (fol. ii). Descriptions of medals connected with English history with additional historical, bibliographic and personal information. Arranged in two sections, separately paginated.

At the end of the second section:- Summary descriptions of Pretender medals from the list by Edward Hawkins (published by Sir H. Ellis, Original Letters, 2nd ser., IV (1827), 360-6; see also E. Hawkins, Numismata Britannica (1852), 403-7, 611-13, etc.), pp. 54-68; tabulation of information on medals (1005), pp. 69-92; drawings of medals of George, Prince of Denmark, consort of Queen Anne, etc., pp. 94-8.

See also HAG/A, HAG/B.
Creator
Haggard, William Debonnaire (1787-1866), banker, numismatist and antiquary
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/683