Milan: Federico Motta, 2001. 4to, original pictorial card covers. 304 pages; heavily illustrated in monochrome and color. Fine. A major catalogue of Nini’s artwork. Along with Richard Margolis’s study, one of the more important modern publications on Nini. More
Florence: 2011. 192 pages; well-illustrated in color. Fine. [with] I MEDAGLIONI PROVINCIALI E I CONTORNIATI ROMANI NELLE RACCOLTE DEL MONETIERE DEL MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE DI FIRENZE. VOLUME II. Florence, 2012. 172 pages; well-illustrated in color. Two volumes. Both 4to, original red pictorial boards. Fine. Attractively illustrated works on the Roman..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927. Crown 4to, original linen-backed boards; printed cover label; spine lettered in black. (6), 45, (3) pages; text figures; 6 fine plates. Light wear to binding; near fine. A handsomely produced work on these rare medals, which have been described by one reviewer as “coarsely abusive and..... More
Paris: 1869. Congrès archéologique de France (XXXVe session, séances générales tenues à Carcassonne, a Narbonne, a Perpignan et a Béziers en 1868...). Small 8vo, somewhat later white cloth-backed mottled boards; green spine label, gilt. lxv, (1), 411, (1) pages; illustrated throughout; 2 folding plans [Des Méloizes’s article is found on..... More
München: 1.–2. Mai 1900. 4to, contemporary brown cloth-backed mottled boards. xii, 127, (5) pages; 576 lots; 10 fine plates. Several leaves detached from spine, but complete. Browned. Good. Geschenk-Exemplar mit 10 Tafeln in besonderer Mappe. Rare: a copy sold in our recent sale of the Mark & Lottie Salton Library..... More
London: Spink, 2016. Two volumes, complete. 4to, original matching blue half morocco, gilt, with marbled sides; spines with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt; top page edges gilt. 830 pages; illustrated throughout in color; three color photographic plates bound in, depicting the Wright Declaration of Independence medal, the..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1861. Small 4to, contemporary green quarter calf, gilt; spine lettered in gilt; top page edges gilt. x, (2), 13–203, (1) pages; letter facsimile plate; facsimile autograph plate; 21 superb plates of medals engraved by Joseph Saxton’s medal ruling machine. Binding rubbed; frontispiece foxed; very good..... More
New York, etc. 2003–2013. Twenty-four volumes, complete. 4to, original matching maroon cloth, gilt; upper covers embossed; decorative endpapers. 6452 pages; 15,284 lots; numerous portraits; profusely illustrated throughout, largely in full color. Price realized lists laid in. Fine. A complete set of the 24 volumes of the scarce hardcover edition of..... More
Boston: 1931. Edited by Malcolm Storer, M.D. Very thick 8vo, original green cloth, gilt; plain jacket. 1146 pages; frontispiece portrait plaque; 16 plates. Essentially as new. A very well-preserved copy of the most comprehensive work on the topic ever written, recording perhaps as many as ten thousand items. Privately printed..... More
New York: June 21, 1881. 8vo, later green cloth, gilt; original printed paper covers bound in. 51, (1) pages; 765 lots; handsome chromolithographic frontispiece plate of Arms of the Freemasons; 2 fine heliotype plates; 3 lithographic plates. Front wrap stained; used as backing for frontispiece; otherwise near fine. Adams 38..... More