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VAUGHAN, Rice (d. c. 1672). A Treatise on Money: or, A Discourse on Coin and Coinage. Edited by Henry Vaughan (1621-1695). London: T. Dawks for Th. Basset, 1675. 12° (146 x 79mm). (Stains on title and margins of early quires.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, extremities rubbed).

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VAUGHAN, Rice (d. c. 1672). A Treatise on Money: or, A Discourse on Coin and Coinage. Edited by Henry Vaughan (1621-1695). London: T. Dawks for Th. Basset, 1675. 12° (146 x 79mm). (Stains on title and margins of early quires.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, extremities rubbed).

FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of this posthumous work edited by Henry Vaughan, 'the Silurist'. It takes the unusual form of a history of money with 'a short account of our common law therein,' and also includes tables 'of the value of all sorts of pearls, diamonds, gold, silver, and other metals'. RARE. Only 6 holdings in ESTC. Goldsmiths' 2131; Kress 1394; Wing V-137.