THE COINS OF ROMAN ANTIOCH.
Lancaster and London: 2007. 4to, original blue cloth lettered in silver; jacket. xx, 407, (5) pages; illustrated. Fine. An important recent work. More
Lancaster and London: 2007. 4to, original blue cloth lettered in silver; jacket. xx, 407, (5) pages; illustrated. Fine. An important recent work. More
New York: Attic, 1974. Reprint. 4to, original brown cloth, gilt; jacket. Frontispiece; xvi, 340, (2) pages; 115 plates of coins. Near fine. [with] Comstock, Mary, and Cornelius Vermeule. GREEK COINS: 1950 TO 1963. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1964. 4to, original printed card covers. 78 pages; 30 fine plates. Near..... More
London: Spink, 1999. 4to, later maroon half morocco; spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt; maroon endpapers; all page edges speckled red. xi, (1), 450, (2) pages; 50 plates of coins. Fine. An attractively bound copy of this important festschrift, bringing together thirty-seven articles in various languages..... More
New York: Gimbel Brothers, March 18, 1944. 8vo, original printed card covers. 17 pages; 225 lots; 5 plates of coins. Hand-priced in pencil, with some coded annotations. Very good. An important sale of Russian coins that is usually encountered in poor condition when a copy can be found at all..... More
Printed advertising placard [26.5 by 20.5 cm], mounted on red wooden shingle [29 by 24 cm] with wall mount on rear. Marginal chipping to top of placard; some roughness to shingle, especially at lower right. An eye-catching display item that is for the most part well-preserved. A fun piece of..... More
Chicago: Hotel LaSalle, August 26, 1944. 8vo, original printed card covers. 40 pages; 203 lots. Hand-priced in pencil. Very good. A hand-priced copy of the 1944 ANA convention auction sale, as issued in the Official Program. Very scarce. More
London: Spink, 2000–2014 [2005–2017 printings]. Five volumes. 8vo, original cloth, gilt; jackets. 2900 pages; illustrated. New. The complete Millennium Edition of Sear on Roman coins, which saw the 1988 single-volume reference dramatically expanded into five volumes. The most recent edition. More
Boston: Boston Public Library, 1976. 8vo, card covers. (2), 35, (3) pages. Fine. An unusual production, with the introduction noting that Arnold’s “essay is crotchety, at best, to the point of perverseness, and one might well question the wisdom of giving it wider currency by here reprinting it.” The essay..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine label; jacket. xxii, 794 pages; 63 plates of coins; endpaper maps. Fine. Covers the coinage of southern Italy, Sicily and Sardinia from the middle of the tenth century through the reign of Ferdinand the Catholic. More
Paris: Imprimerie de la Veuve d’Houry, (1790). 8vo, original mottled brown calf; spine with five raised bands, decorated in gilt; red spine label, gilt; red page edges; hand-marbled endpapers. 720 + 8 pages. Binding worn at spine and rubbed at extremities; very good. One of the most important editions of..... More
Caldwell: The Caxton Printers, 1939. 8vo, original decorative orange cloth, decorated in gilt and black; pictorial jacket. 286 pages; frontispiece and 28 other plates, 2 depicting Emperor Norton scrip. Dust jacket sunned on spine and a bit worn at top edge; previous owner’s signature on front flyleaf; very good. The..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, 1931. First edition. 8vo, original russet cloth, gilt; jacket. Frontispiece; (12), 368 pages; 15 additional plates. Near fine. Among the most important collections of primary accounts of the Gold Rush era. Kurutz, California Gold Rush: A Descriptive Bibliography, #36. Wheat, Books of the Gold Rush, #11: “Well..... More
New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1954. 8vo, original green cloth lettered in black; jacket. 186 pages. Spine sunned; else near fine. A popular biography of John Augustus Sutter (1803–1880), on whose property gold was discovered in January 1848, setting in motion the California Gold Rush. More
New York: Halcyon House, December 1938. Fourth printing. 8vo, original red cloth, gilt; endpaper maps. Frontispiece portrait; xi, (3), 423, (1) pages; 13 additional plates. Signed by the author. Gift inscription. Top edge with damp-stain; else very good. A biography of the famous settler John Augustus Sutter (1803–1880), the German-Swiss..... More
San Ramon: 2005. 8vo, original pictorial boards. ix, 139, (1) pages; illustrated in color. New. A guide to the provenances of a number of important 1794 large cents, with much information on notable collectors. More
Wolfeboro: Stack’s, 2008. 4to, original blue leatherette, gilt. 94, (2) pages; illustrated. Inscribed by author on front flyleaf. Fine. The deluxe edition of this fascinating publication, with a bookplate signed by the author and four others involved in the project. More
Tiburon: Kagin’s, 2019. 4to, original pictorial boards; jacket. 52 pages; illustrated in color. New. A history and catalogue of the Treasury Notes printed in an attempt to finance the War of 1812, including non-interest-bearing notes that circulated as the nation’s first paper money. Only 250 copies printed. More
Bloomington: 1991. Two volumes. 4to, original green andmaroon leatherette, gilt. 390 + 300 pages; enlarged illustrations throughout. Fine. Essential works, most valuable for attribution. More
Paris: 1931. Tall 8vo, original card covers printed in red and black. (2), viii, (2), 168 unopened pages; folding table; illustrated. Fine. A significant publication on coins of the French Revolution and the era of Napoleon, much scarcer than the similar works on earlier French coinage written by his brother..... More
Ypsilanti: 2006–2015. Six volumes. 4to, original matching maroon leatherette, gilt. Over 2400 pages; fine enlarged color text illustrations of large cents throughout. New. Well-illustrated attribution guides with significant condition-census data. The complete set. This set weighs more than the estimated 3 pounds and may incur extra international shipping charges. More
Colonial Coin Collectors Club, 2018. 4to, original black leatherette, gilt; jacket. xxii, 506 pages; illustrated in color. New. The long-awaited work on these poorly understood coins, and the new standard reference. More
4to, original black leatherette, gilt; jacket. Ann Arbor: Colonial Coin Collectors' Club, 2015. xviii, 462 pages; illustrated. New. The new standard work, covering the 1670 Gloriam Regni coinage, the 1717 Perpignan coppers and the 1721-22 9 deniers. More
Fairfield: 2004. Second edition. 8vo, original orange cloth, gilt; jacket. viii, 533 pages; text illustrations; 11 plates. Included is Price Guide to Coins of the Crusder States (3rd edition, 2007). New. The latest edition of the standard guide to the subject, along with the separately published price guide. More
Teaneck: 1974. 8vo, original blue cloth lettered in silver; jacket. viii, 259 pages; illustrated. Fine, in shrinkwrap. A significant work. More
Sociedad Numismatica de Mexico, 1969. Reprint. 8vo, original gray printed card covers. (2), 8, (366) pages; illustrations of the obverses and reverses of 512 coins with accompanying text. Previous owner's name and date written on front flyleaf. Near fine. The only decent reprint of this rare book. Especially important for..... More