Numismatic Literature，Silvestre, J., Médailles de la Chine et dépendances, Rochefort, 1908, original printing, 16 pages, 7 plates, hardcover, from Volume 30, Bulletin of the Société de géographie de Rochefort, ex. H. F. Bowker Numismatic Library. Howard Franklin Bowker (1889-1970) was a numismatist and philatelist, collecting and specializing in Chinese coins, stamps and banknotes. He created the first bibliography of Western language publications on East Asian numismatics. J. Silvestre was a French colonial administrator in Indochina and the author of The Coins and Medals of Annam published in the American Journal of Numismatics, Volume 37, Number 3 in 1903 as well as this article.
