Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1955. 4to, later half black morocco with blue cloth sides; spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; all page edges speckled blue; original printed card covers bound in. (6), x, 203, (5) pages; frontispiece; 49 fine plates. Previous owner’s signature to front..... More
Cairo: February 24–March 6, 1954. Crown 4to, somewhat later three-quarter brown morocco with marbled sides; spine with five raised bands, lettered in French in gilt; marbled endpapers. (2), 306, (6) pages; 2798 lots; 37 plates, all but the last double-plates. Original prices realized list laid in. Tiny nick to leather..... More
Berkeley and London: 1982. 8vo, original green cloth, gilt; jacket. xiii, 411, (1) pages; 95 fine plates. Fine. A classic: perhaps the best single-volume work on the topic. More
New York: Published by the Author, 1878. Two volumes. Folio, original matching orange cloth, gilt. lxix, (1), 478, 8; xvi pages; titles printed in red and black; 170 finely engraved etchings of medals by Jules Jacquemart on 86 plates with tissue guards. Binding worn, with some cracking to joints and..... More
Paris: 1892. First edition. Two volumes. 4to, later matching tan quarter morocco with marbled sides; spines with five raised bands, lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; original printed card covers bound in. (4), cxx, 630, (2) pages; folding map with linen backing; 36 fine plates. Only light rubbing to extremities. Near..... More
New York: ANS, 1922. 16mo, later three-quarter black morocco with blue cloth sides; spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; all page edges speckled blue; original printed front card cover bound in. (4), 234 pages; 13 fine folding plates. Card cover with corner fold, else..... More
Halle (Saale): 1923. 4to, later cream linen with red leather spine, lettered in gilt. xvi, 208 pages; text illustrations; 16 fine plates. Fine. A well-preserved copy of this classic work, still used as a standard reference. Very scarce. A. Riechmann’s Münzstudien, Band I. Clain-Stefanelli 3716*. Grierson 73. Kroh 67: “a..... More
Tel-Aviv: 1967. Translated from the Hebrew by I.H. Levine. 4to, later black three-quarter morocco with blue cloth sides; spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; all page edges speckled in blue; original printed card covers bound in. 184 pages; 32 plates of coins. Fine. An..... More
Montreal. Reprinted from The Gazette, 1886. 16mo [17 by 11 cm], original printed gray paper covers. 16 pages. Fine. The first work on the topic. Often attributed to McLachlan himself, who undoubtedly had something to do with it. Beginning with Henry Christmas’s 1862 Numismatic Chronicle article, discusses Sandham, Kingsford, Leroux..... More
London: 1967. Second edition, revised and enlarged. 4to, later black half morocco with blue cloth sides; spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; all page edges speckled blue; original front dust jacket trimmed and bound in. x, 307, (3) pages; heavily illustrated. Binding rubbed, with..... More
Racine: Whitman, 1948 and 1950. 3rd and 4th editions (1949–1950 and 1951–1952). Two volumes. 12mo, original red cloth, gilt. Each 254, (2) pages; text illustrations. Third edition very good with mostly faded cover gilt but relatively bright spine gilt. Fourth edition is only good, and is shaken. Two early editions..... More
Wolfeboro: Bowers & Merena, 1993. Two volumes. 4to, original matching maroon cloth, gilt. 3092 pages; text illustrations. Limitation bookplate signed by the author. Fine. The deluxe hardcover edition, one of only 500 sets thus bound of what is now the standard work on United States silver dollars and their varieties..... More
London: Spink & Son, 1932. 8vo, later black three-quarter morocco with blue cloth sides; spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; all page edges speckled blue; original printed front card cover bound in. (2), iv, 199, (5) pages; text illustrations. Fine. A well-preserved and handsomely..... 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
Stockholm: 1874–1875. Two volumes. 8vo, original matching green cloth, gilt. xiv, (2), 624, (2); (4), 624, (2) pages; size scales. Near fine. A scarce and important work on Swedish commemorative and presentation coins and awards medals. Clain-Stefanelli 14979. Hesse 953. More
no place of publication: Entered at Stationers’ Hall, 1912–1914. Small 4to, somewhat later maroon cloth, gilt. 89–216 + 12 pages and preliminaries; finely illustrated. Binder’s leaves added for bulk. Very good or better. The Middlesex portions of the original edition of the indispensable standard reference on this captivating series. Clain-Stefanelli..... 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
Various locations: 1984–2009. Numbers 1–49, a complete set of the printed issues. Includes Kolbe Auctions 16, 20, 22, 24, 25, 27, 30, 31, 33, 34, 37, 39, which were issued with the series. Varying formats. Generally fine. A complete set of Kolbe’s Numismatic Bookseller, originally issued as a fixed-price list..... More
9.5 inch diameter orange frisbee. Produced from 1971 to the mid-1970s. Not knowing the grading standards for such items, let’s just say it’s “near fine.”. From the extensive frisbee collection of the late Mike Ringo. Part of Ringo’s frisbee collection was donated to the Colonial Coin Collectors Club to be..... More
Lugdunum Batavorum: Apud Vid. C. Boutesteyn & S. Luchtmans / Delphis: Apud Adrianum Beman, 1713. 8vo, contemporary full vellum; both sides bordered and paneled with double gilt fillets with decorations at the interior corners, gilt device of a unicorn forcené upholding escutcheon depicting a hunting horn; spine with five gilt..... More
Paris: 1999. 4to, later black three-quarter morocco with blue cloth sides; spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt; original printed card covers bound in; blue endpapers; all page edges speckled blue. (4), 260 pages; 27 plates. Fine. A handsomely bound copy of this important die study, from..... More
Poznan: May–July 1994. Small 4to, later black half morocco with blue cloth sides; spine with five raised ands, ruled and lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; original pictorial card covers bound in; all page edges speckled blue. 135, (1) pages; well illustrated throughout. Bilingual. Fine. An important exhibition catalogue, attractively bound..... More
(Fort Worth): c. 1931. Original typewritten carbon copy of the inventory of the colonial and early American portion of the Waldo C. Newcomer collection. 37 leaves, typewritten in three columns (Date / Description / Cost) on one side of each sheet of onion-skin carbon-copy paper. Held together with two brass..... More
New York: Bangs, April 28–May 1, 1863. 4to [32 by 26.5 cm], modern brown half speckled calf with marbled sides; spine with six raised bands, ruled and decorated in gilt; black and red spine labels lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; original printed paper covers bound in. 112 pages, interleaved; 2569..... More