Acquisitions record of the Library of the American Numismatic and Archaeological Society.

Entries from: 1858 - 1898.

The elegant script lists the entry as "The Coin Collectors manual or guide to the numismatic student in the formation of a cabinet of coins," by: H. Noel Humphreys, London: 1853. It indicates that this was a purchase made in 1859, one year after the official founding of the Society.

The two-volume set of Humphreys Coin Collector's Manual is a first edition bound in the original red cloth with design in blind tooling on the upper cover and lettering in gilt on the spine. The ANS Library also possesses other editions of the work from 1876, 1880, 1883, and 1887. A modern facsimile, printed in 1971, is available for browsing on the exhibition shelf of the Library's reading room.