Kolbe & Fanning Announce Sale of Kreindler Library

Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers are extremely pleased to announce that they will be offering at public auction the outstanding and comprehensive library on ancient numismatics formed over decades by New York coin dealer Herbert Kreindler.

Highlights from the library, featuring many extraordinary works, will be sold in conjunction with the New York International Numismatic Convention on Saturday, January 11, 2014 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. The sale will be held in association with Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH, of Osnabrück, Germany, and will be followed, several days later, by an eLive online auction featuring the remainder of the library.

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Featured Items

AMERICAN COLONIAL HISTORY ILLUSTRATED BY CONTEMPORARY MEDALS.
Betts, C. Wyllys.
Boston: Quarterman, 1972. 8vo, original brown cloth, gilt. (4), v, (3), 369, (1) pages; frontispiece; text illustrations; additional plates at the end. Cover.. more
Price: $75.00

CATALOGUE OF THE POST-REFORM DIRHAMS: THE UMAYYAD DYNASTY.
Klat, Michel G.
London: Spink, 2002. Tall 4to, original green cloth lettered in blind; jacket. 3-322 pages; illustrated. Fine. .. more
Price: $160.00

IMPORTANT NUMISMATIC BOOKS. SALE 128.
Kolbe & Fanning.
Gahanna: February 28, 2013, Special Hardbound Edition. 4to; original blue cloth; gilt; original pictorial covers bound in. 102 pages; 1267 lots. PRL bound in... more
Price: $65.00

CIVIL WAR STORE CARDS OF CINCINNATI.
Ostendorf, John.
Civil War Token Society, 2007. 8vo; original printed boards. vi, 377, (1) pages; illustrated. New. .. more
Price: $50.00

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ERIC P. NEWMAN COLLECTION SPECIAL HARDCOVER EDITION SUBSCRIPTION

Subscription to the complete set, to be invoiced and charged as issued.

Selections from the fabled collection of the Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society (EPNNES) will be offered for sale in a series of public auctions expected to be at least ten in number, to be held over the next several years by various auction firms. The sales begin with the April 25, 2013 auction of pattern coins being offered by Heritage Auctions.

The Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society will receive $25 from the sale of every catalogue to further its philanthropic activities, including the advancement of numismatic scholarship.

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George F. Kolbe's
THE REFERENCE LIBRARY OF
A NUMISMATIC BOOKSELLER

An essential work for those interested in numismatic literature.

This limited edition is bound in gorgeous green Japanese bookbinding cloth and features a red morocco and gilt spine label.

Interesting and informative notes and commentary will be found throughout the book, including anecdotes and observations on the importance and rarity of certain titles, including their scope and content.

The volume comprises a detailed catalogue of the compiler's reference library, formed over four decades as a dealer in rare and out-of-print numismatic publications.

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Kolbe & Fanning Publications

MEDALLIC PORTRAITS OF ADMIRAL VERNON: MEDALS SOMETIMES LIE. WAS $95
Adams, John W., Fernando Chao (h) and Anne E. Bentley
Gahanna: Kolbe & Fanning, 2010.
Price: $65.00

THE INDIAN PEACE MEDALS OF GEORGE III, OR HIS MAJESTY'S SOMETIME ALLIES. WAS $165
Adams, John W.
Crestline: George Frederick Kolbe, 1999. 8vo, original red cloth, black morocco spine label, gilt. 164 pages; frontispiece; folding color plate; 32 duotone plates. New. .. more
Price: $120.00

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