México: Miguel Ángel Porrúa, 1989. 4to, original green cloth; leather title panels on spine and upper cover. 31, (1), (4), 80, (2), 38, (6) pages; 8 color plates; additional plates and text illustrations. Fine. Reprints in facsimile the 1849 and 1857 reports on the Mexican mint, with an introduction by..... More
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
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: 12 décembre 1935. 4to, original printed card covers. 27, (1) pages; 269 lots; 11 fine plates, the first mostly devoted to ancient gold coins. Spine rolled; very good. A later sale conducted by Louis Ciani’s brother Pio, who continued the firm under his brother’s name after Louis’s death in..... More
Boston: November 6, 1999. Spine title cited. 4to, original full maroon leather, gilt; original pictorial card covers bound in. 80 pages; 525 lots; illustrated. Prices realized list in pocket. Fine. Number 12 of 12 copies thus bound, signed by Chris McCawley, Bob Grellman, and cataloguer Tom Rinaldo. For reasons unknown..... 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
Frankfurt am Main: 14. März 1904 und folgende Tage. 8vo, contemporary cloth-backed mottled boards; original printed front paper cover bound in. (6), 200 + 14 pages; 4325 lots; 11 fine plates; original printed prices realized list bound in. Slightly trimmed, affecting only plate numbers; near fine. A very scarce catalogue..... More
Frankfurt am Main: 29. Mai 1911 und folgende Tage. 4to, later black cloth-backed marbled boards; hand-lettered spine label. (4), 143, (1) pages; 2835 lots; 14 fine plates. Prices realized list bound in. Pages browned, as usual. Fine or nearly so. A very scarce and important sale of duplicates from the..... 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
Vienna: Verein der Museumsfreunde, 1948. 2. Auflage. Two volumes, complete. Oblong folio, original matching printed tan cloth-backed boards. xl, 354; 14 pages; 56 fine plates. Spine titled in ink; very good or better. The best edition of this indispensable standard work, covering the entire range of Austrian numismatics. The first..... More
London: Spink, 1899. 8vo, contemporary brown cloth, gilt; original printed paper covers bound in. viii, 51, (1) pages, interleaved; 4 fine plates. Near fine. A major work on the subject, with fine collotype plates. Offprinted from the Numismatic Chronicle. Scarce. Clain-Stefanelli 9933. More
Cavaillon: Imprimerie Mistral, 1932. 8vo, original printed card covers. (6), xxii, (2), 253, (17) pages; illustrated. Covers a bit worn; very good. The first volume of the papers of Charles-Alexandre de Calonne, the French Contrôleur-Général from 1783 to 1787, which were retained by the British Government after his death in..... More
Paris: 12–15 décembre 1938. 8vo, later black half morocco with marbled sides; spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt; all page edges speckled blue; original printed front card cover bound in. 70 pages; 4 fine plates. Fine. A finely bound copy of this very rare sale catalogue..... 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
Bound volume of three offprints by Temple on this subject: “Notes on Currency and Coinage among the Burmese” (reprinted from The Indian Antiquary for 1919); “Notes on Currency and Coinage among the Burmese” (reprinted from The Indian Antiquary for 1927–1928); and “On Certain Specimens of Former Currency in Burma” (reprinted..... 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