Catalog Record: Masterpieces of the early printers & engravers. A series of facsimiles from rare and curious books, remarkable for illustrative devices, beautiful borders, decorative initials, printers' makrs, elaborate title-pages, &c | Hathi Trust Digital Library

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• A history of the art of printing from its invention to its wide-spread development in the middle of the sixteenth century. Preceded by a short account of the origin of the alphabet, and of the successive methods of recording events before the invention of printing.
  By: Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.
  Published: (1868)
• The gold, silver, and copper coins of England, exhibited in a series of fac-similes of the most interesting coins of each successive period; printed in gold, silver, and copper, accompanied by a sketch of the progress of the English coinage from the earliest period to the present time.
  By: Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.
  Published: (1849)
• The butterfly vivarium; or, Insect home: being an account of a new method of observing the curious metamorphoses of some of the most beautiful of our native insects. Comprising also a popular description of the habits and instincts of many of the insects of the various classes referred to; with suggestions for the successful study of entomology by means of an insect vivarium.
  By: Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.
  Published: (1858)
• Specimens of illuminated manuscripts of the middle ages, from the sixth to the sixteenth century. A series of twelve plates from richly illuminated manuscripts, executed in exact imitation of the originals.
  By: Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.
  Published: (1853)
• The genera of British moths. Popularly described and arranged according to the system now adopted in the British museum. Illus. by a series of picturesque plates. Exhibiting the insects in their different stages, with the caterpillars and the plants on which they are generally found.
  By: Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.
  Published: (1860)
• The coin collector's manual; or, Guide to the numismatic student in the formation of a cabinet of coins: comprising an historical and critical account of the origin and progress of coinage, from the earliest period to the fall of the Roman empire; with some account of the coinages of modern Europe, more especially of Great Britain.
  By: Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.
  Published: (1853)
• The coin collector's manual : or, Guide to the numismatic student in the formation of a cabinet of coins : comprising an historical and critical account of the origin and progress of coinage, from the earliest period to the fall of the Roman Empire : with some account of the coinages of modern Europe, more especially of Great Britain /
  By: Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.
  Published: (1883)
• The coinage of the British empire: an outline of the progress of the coinage in Great Britain and her dependencies, from the earliest period to the present time.
  By: Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.
  Published: (1854)
• The origin and progress of the art of writing : a connected narrative of the development of the art in its primeval phases in Egypt, China, and Mexico ... and its subsequent progress to the present day /
  By: Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.
  Published: (1855)
• Ten centuries of art. Its progress in Europe from the IXth to the XIXth century.
  By: Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.
  Published: (1852)