No place or date of issue: (1951–1952). Three glossy photographic plates depicting 27 obverses and 35 reverses. Plates 1 and 2 are approximately 19 by 13.5 cm; Plate 3 is approximately 23 by 13.5 cm. Loose as issued. Fine. These plates were prepared to accompany, as halftones, Newman’s monograph on..... More
New York: Printed for the Author, 1849. 12mo, original plain blue paper covers, stitched. 22, (2) pages. Folded; some spotting. Very good or so. A rare printing of a series of nine letters first published between March and July 1848 in several New York newspapers. Williams, writing under the penname..... More
Liège: Vaillant-Carmanne, 1947. 4to, original printed card covers. 79, (1) pages; 23 fine plates, half of them depicting coins and medals. Covers and fore-edge spotted. Very good. A focused monograph on this famous engraver of coins and medals, who made important innovations at the Paris mint. One of 500 copies..... More
London: British Numismatic Society, 1985. Oblong 8vo. (2) leaves; 34 photographic plates of coins. [with] Glendining & Co. CATALOGUE OF A Collection of hammered silver coins FROM EDWARD I TO HENRY VII INCLUDING A SPECIALIST SERIES OF COINS OF EDWARD IV, INCLUDING IRISH ISSUES FORMED BY MRS. M. DELMÉ-RADCLIFFE OF..... More
Greenwich: National Maritime Museum, 1950. Second edition. Oblong 4to, original cloth-backed printed boards. (2), viii, 468 pages. Ex-library, with label on pastedown and a few internal markings; cloth worn. Very good or so. Important and rare. The best edition, incorporating the 1939 supplement and the many medals acquired in the..... More
Boston: Published by John Park, July 11, 1806. Intact newspaper of 4 pages printed at typical tabloid size. Prints a letter from Commodore Edward Preble accepting his Congressional gold medal, in the first column of page 3. Removed from previous binding, but spine mostly intact. Very good. A contemporary newspaper..... More
New York: November 14–15, 1973. Small 4to, original pictorial card covers. 105, (3) pages; 1066 lots; 48 plates. original estimates and prices realized lists laid in. All of the large cent lots (324–608) are priced and named, generally with initials that are in the first instance spelled out (see comments)..... More
Boston and Washington: Heath, 1889. Fifteenth edition. Newman 15-P-2. 16mo, original blindstamped maroon cloth; front cover decoratively lettered in gilt. Engraved title preceding printed title; 47, (1) pages, including prefatory chapter by Casilear; 10 engraved plates depicting the right-hand sides of United States Notes and National Currency respectively in $1..... More
London: Printed by Order of the Society and Sold by the Housekeeper at the Society’s House in the Adelphi, 1819. 8vo [20.5 by 13.5 cm], contemporary marbled boards rebacked in later dark blue calf; spine with four raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt. 80 pages, as follows: (4), 1–59..... More
Hertford: 1874. Small 8vo [22 by 14.5 cm], finely bound in brown antiqued quarter calf, boards decoratively patterned in pink, gold, purple and cream; spine with two raised bands, ruled and decorated in gilt; red spine label, gilt. viii, (2), 38 pages; 5 fine photographically printed plates of coins. Minor..... More
Boston: 1955. First edition. 4to, text bound separately in later brown half morocco, gilt; plates housed loose, for ease of reference, in full brown morocco plate folder. Fine frontispiece; xvi, 340, (2) pages; 115 very fine plates of coins. Near fine. A beautifully bound copy of the scarce original edition..... More
Brief notice printed in the New York Evening Post for Saturday, February 2, 1861. Entire issue present. Large tabloid, 4 pages. Article on page 3 announces the seizure of the New Orleans Mint, with a small headline. Folded, and separated at spine. Very good. An interesting memento of one of..... More
Boston: Heath, 1864. First edition, no stated printing or imprint. Newman 1-P-20. 16mo, original blindstamped dark green cloth; front cover lettered in gilt, without price. 32 pages; 10 engraved plates of bank note design elements, with original tissue guards, interspersed in the text, with plate 6 serving as a frontispiece..... More
Philadelphia: Davis & Harvey, Dec. 7–17, 1921. 4to, recent white linen, gilt, in the style of the original. xii, 653, (3) pages; 7302 lots; 42 superb photographic plates of coins and medals. Original printed prices realized list laid in. General wear with some marginal discoloration. Very good or better contents..... More
New York: ANS, 1938. Tall 8vo, original printed card covers. xii, 240 pages; 6 fine plates. Some spotting to page edges from storage; title page with small frayed area at margin; still housed in the original cardboard mailer after over 80 years. Near fine. Numismatic Studies, No. 2. A very..... More
Santiago de Chile: 2001. First edition. 4to, original printed card covers. 131, (1) pages; illustrated throughout. Addenda laid in. Inscribed by the author. Near fine. One of only 90 copies printed of this important work, which described for the first time the three types of coins produced at this short-lived..... More