New York: Anderson Galleries, 1925–1927. Three volumes, bound in one. Tall 8vo, later blue cloth, gilt; original printed card covers bound in. Frontispiece; 154 pages total; 2407 lots; 2 halftone plates, one of them double, plus illustrations throughout; 7 fine reprint plates produced from the original negatives [Plates 7–11, 11A..... More

Lincoln: Quarterman, 1992. 4to, original full black leather; spine with four raised bands, second and fourth compartments featuring maroon and green gilt-lettered leather labels, remaining compartments decorated with a gilt-stamped floral spray; marbled endpapers; top page edges gilt; limitation bookplate signed by author, publisher and binder. xii, 218, (2) pages..... More

London: Spink, 2009–2020. Six volumes, complete. Large 4to, original matching blue boards; jacket. 6880 pages total; heavily illustrated. Near fine or better. All six volumes of this massive and magnificent bibliography of numismatic books published in the 18th century, finally surpassing Lipsius. Covers all numismatic works, regardless of methodology or..... More

Volumes I–VI, complete as issued in eight volumes. London, 1962–1976 printings. 8vo, original matching maroon cloth, gilt; jackets. 4590 pages total; 504 plates of coins. Some jackets worn; volumes themselves generally near fine. Joel Malter’s set of this indispensable standard work, with his bookplate. Volume V is the 1975 first..... More

Paris: 28 mars–1 avril 1927. 4to, contemporary blue quarter calf with mottled boards; spine ruled and lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers. (8), 66, (2) pages; 1209 lots; frontispiece portrait; 15 very fine plates. Near fine. A handsomely bound copy of this scarce and important sale catalogue. Clain-Stefanelli 5179. Grierson 290..... More

Albany: Munsell, Printer, 1880. Second edition. 8vo, original pebbled dark-purple cloth, gilt. 56 pages. Cloth a little worn and dusty; contents nearly fine. The only copy of the second edition that we have ever handled, sold by us in 1983 as part of the Ted Craige Library, and then again..... More

El Cajon: TAMS, 1977. 4to, original tan cloth, gilt. xlvii, (1), 424 pages; numerous text illustrations. Slightly sunned, else fine. Still the fundamental work on the subject. Clain-Stefanelli 15063*. More

Jerusalem: 1975. 4to, later black three-quarter morocco with blue cloth sides; spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt; textures endpapers; all page edges speckled blue. (8), 111, (1) pages; 8 plates. Fine. A finely bound copy of this important work, the standard reference for the coinage of..... More

Ottawa: E.A. Perry, 1874. 8vo, original printed paper covers. 24 pages; lithographic frontispiece depicting both sides of a Vexator token. Spine reinforced with archival mending tissue; institutional stamps; very good. A scarce monograph that according to Warren Baker “is the first pamphlet published in Canada on a numismatic subject.” It..... More

Boston: November 8, 2003. 4to, original brown cloth, gilt; original pictorial card covers bound in. 142, (2) pages; 678 + 5 lots; illustrated throughout. Prices realized list in special pocket on rear board. Near fine. The special hardcover edition of the ninth C4 sale, significant for the John Griffee collection..... More

Lugduni: Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1542. 8vo [16 by 10.5 cm], contemporary limp vellum; hand-lettered spine with three raised bands. (2), 819, (93) pages, printed in italic type; title with charming woodcut printer’s device featuring a griffin perched atop a book; woodcut initials; exceptional woodcut of a griffin on the final..... More

Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1898. Tall 8vo, contemporary black pebbled cloth, gilt. viii, 48 pages. Light wear to extremities; very good or better. A metrological study of Islamic coins, focusing on their legally stipulated weight and fineness, and deviations therefrom. Very scarce. Ex Leonard Forrer Library, with his label. Mayer 1160..... More

Chicago. 1975 translated reprint of the 1923–1926 original. 4to, original red cloth, gilt. (8), 17, (1), xviii pages; 115 plates of coins. Fine. Important. Svoronos researched the holdings of some sixty public and private collections over a period of several years. After his death, the work was brought to publication..... More