BRITISH MILITARY & NAVAL MEDALS AND DECORATIONS.
London: 1880. 8vo, original red cloth, gilt, decorated in blind. 140, (2) pages. Cover spotted; interior near fine. More
London: 1880. 8vo, original red cloth, gilt, decorated in blind. 140, (2) pages. Cover spotted; interior near fine. More
New York: ANS, 1935. 16mo, original printed card covers. (4), 45, (1) pages; frontispiece; 6 plates. Fine. Numismatic Notes and Monographs No. 66. Important. Includes information on the Amelia Island, Florida medal. More
September 1938. 4to, later brown cloth and boards, gilt. (8), 79, (1) pages; 1915 lots; 28 fine plates. Valuation list tipped in. Near fine. A notable sale for German coins. More
London: 1923. 8vo, original printed boards. 84, 7, (1) pages; illustrated. Spine sunned; near fine. More
London: 1967. Second edition, revised and enlarged. 4to, original blue cloth, gilt; jacket. x, 307, (3) pages; heavily illustrated. Jacket worn, else fine. Very important. More
London: British Museum, 1930. Two volumes, complete. Folio, original matching tan cloth, gilt. xvii, (1), 371, (1) + vii, (1) pages; titles printed in red and black; 1333 extremely detailed descriptions; text figures; 201 superb plates of medals. Spotting to extremities; moderate wear from normal use. Very good or better..... More
Oxford: At the University Press, 1931. Thick folio [40 by 30 cm], original blue cloth, lettered in gilt. xii, 311, (1) pages; 141 superb plates depicting 667 medals. Binding worn, with hinges cracked and front cover stained; first few leaves lightly stained, not affecting main text or plates. Ex Duveen..... More
Philadelphia: Bailey, Banks & Biddle, 1917. Small 4to, original textured blue cloth, gilt. 107, (1) pages; 18 most attractive embossed plates of medals and ribbons, printed in colors and metallic tints. Near fine. The quality of the embossed illustrations present here has never been equaled in an American numismatic work..... More
Monte Carlo: Editions Victor Gadoury, 2005. 8vo, original printed card covers. 87, (1) pages; illustrated. New. More
Atlanta: Whitman, 2008. 8vo, original pictorial card covers. xii, 289, (1) pages; illustrated in color throughout. New. Foreword by Q. David Bowers. More
Cleveland: 1980. Reprint. 4to, original brown cloth, gilt; facsimile medal of Goetz on the front cover. (8), ii, (2), 284 pages; well illustrated. Fine. The 1980 reprint. Clain-Stefanelli 14658. Mulder and Purves 3218-1. More
Gahanna: Kolbe & Fanning, May 22, 2021. 4to, original cream cloth printed in red; original pictorial covers bound in. 73, (3) pages; 459 lots; illustrated. PRL bound in. New. Featuring material from the libraries of Phil Carrigan, Dan Freidus, Doug Robins, Eldert Bontekoe, the TAB Library and others. More
Berlin: 3. Juni 1924 und folgende Tage. 4to, later black leather-backed orange boards; black spine label, gilt. (2), 86, (2) pages; 2294 lots; 12 fine plates. Small tear at gutter of title page; near fine. A very scarce catalogue, most important for coins of Brandenberg-Prussia but also including a section..... More
New York: December 24, 1863. Broadside [46 by 18.5 cm]. Lots numbered 101–217. Folded; a big ragged at bottom, with tears to blank margin. Very good. Rare. Attinelli page 34. The items sold were the property of Attinelli himself and the proceeds totaled $44.17. The sale followed a largely non–numismatic..... More
N.p. 1983. Reprint. 8vo, original printed card covers. Irregularly paginated. Fine. An abridged reprint of LeRoux, focusing only on those sections dealing with medals. Published by R. Paul Nadin-Davis and Doug Robins. More
New York: January 11–12, 1898. Tall 8vo, later tan cloth and marbled boards; handwritten spine label. 108, (2) pages; 1183 lots; 5 plates [2 halftones, 3 lithographic]; priced throughout in red. Previous owner’s bookplate on pastedown; title page chipped; very good. Adams 37, with plates. Rated A+ overall, and A...... More
New York: 1977. 4to, original printed card covers. 160 pages; illustrated; 4 color plates. Near fine. More
Gahanna: Kolbe & Fanning, 2015. Folio (13 by 10 inches), original terra cotta cloth; gilt; jacket. 232 pages; illustrated in color. New. Benjamin Franklin in Terra Cotta discusses the numerous varieties of Nini medallions, methods of distinguishing originals from aftercasts, and the artistic context within which these pieces were created..... More
No place of publication [prob. Boston]: undated [c. 1912]. Crown 4to, unsewn, unbound signatures. Drop title; 5-252 pages [lacking 253-(258)]; 1 halftone plate. Generally near fine. [with] Marvin, W.T.R. THE ARMS OF THE FREEMASONS AND THE SEAL OF THE GRAND LODGE OF MASSACHUSETTS. Privately printed, 1880. 8vo, self-covered. 24 pages..... More
Boston: 1880. Crown 4to, original printed wraps. 145-329, (1) pages; text illustration; 5 lithographic plates, numbered XIII-XVII, depicting medals; 1 fine chromolithograph depicting the Arms of the Freemasons, laid in (presumably as issued). Front printed wrap detached and stained, but present; rear lacking. First text page stained. Spine separating into..... More
New York: ANS, 2020. Tall 4to, original black boards lettered in silver; jacket. xiii, (1), 268, (6) pages; illustrated, partly in color. New. A thorough and up-to-date study of these fascinating issues, originally used as counters in the medieval period, but serving a variety of social functions in the eighteenth..... 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
New York: ANS, 2015. Tall 4to, original light brown cloth lettered in dark brown; jacket. x, 181, (1) pages; illustrated in color. New. Studies in Medal Art, 2. A new and well-illustrated catalogue of the medals produced by the American Numismatic Society. More
Ottawa: Tirage Spécial de l’Auteur, The Mortimer Co., 1916. 8vo, later plain gray cloth; hand-numbered spine label. Oval frontispiece portrait of the author; 86 pages; 31 plates depicting 48 figures, nearly all medals. Ex-library copy with deaccession stamps. Very good. The first appearance in book form of this scarce and..... More
Descriptions by William Blades; introduction by Henry Morris. Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1996. 8vo, original brown cloth, gilt; accompanying tan card covered folder with medal reproductions; housed together in brown cloth slipcase. 32, (4) pages; title printed in russet and black; 4 gold-tinted medal illustrations; 17th-century trade card reproduced..... More