London: Spink, 2009. 4to, original pictorial boards. xx, 679, (1) pages; illustrated. Fine. This book weighs more than the estimated 3 pounds and may incur extra international shipping charges. More
Atlanta: Whitman, 2020. 2nd edition. 4to, original pictorial boards. x, 340 pages; illustrated in color. New. A highly important work, providing a single-volume examination of these complex coins. More
Washington, DC: February 4, 1851. 8vo, self-covered. 19, (1) pages. Removed from previous binding and somewhat stained. Good or better. The 1850 Mint Report, as transmitted by President Millard Fillmore and written by Mint Director Robert Patterson. The influx of gold from California is starting to be felt in earnest..... More
Virginia City, Nevada. March 2–May 9, 1877. 17 by 10.5 cm. Original tan calf on stiff card covers; upper cover lettered in black: AGENCY OF THE NEVADA BANK OF SAN FRANCISCO, VIRGINIA CITY, NEV. IN ACCOUNT WITH (completed in ink) Savage Mining Co. Very good or better. Transactions are recorded..... More
San Francisco: Monday Morning, April 3, 1854. Large tabloid. 4 pages. Folded; some spotting. Spine a bit ragged, but holding. Very good. A San Francisco newspaper published the very morning the San Francisco Mint opened its doors for business. While the opening is not discussed, the paper includes a report..... 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 with neat tape repair at head of spine; jacket clipped. Near fine. The classic biography of Norton, well known..... More
San Francisco: Albert Dressler, 1927. Second edition. 8vo, original dark red textured card covers lettered in orange. Color frontispiece portrait; (8), 30, (6) pages, including four-page signature tipped in after page 30, as issued; other full page and text illustrations, including a facsimile of a Norton 50¢ note. Fine. A..... More
New York: Halcyon House, December 1938. Fourth printing. 8vo, original red cloth, gilt; endpaper maps; vibrantly colored jacket. Frontispiece portrait; xi, (3), 423, (1) pages; 13 additional plates. Gift inscription. Fine in near fine jacket. While this edition of Dana’s biography of Sutter is not particularly scarce, copies with well-preserved..... More
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Corral, 1961. 4to, original green cloth, gilt; jacket. 267, (1) pages [Clifford’s article comprises pages 217–265]; well illustrated. Minor wear and signs of previous ownership. Very good or better. The first appearance in print of Clifford’s substantial article on pioneer gold. The various Brand Books (see..... More
Colonial Coin Collectors Club, 2020. 8vo, original pictorial boards. 288 pages; illustrated in color. New. The first book-length study of the intriguing series of coppers issued by various parties associated with Thomas Machin. Includes coverage not only of the series collected as Machin’s Mills coppers, but also of those Vermont..... More
Baden-Baden: 5.–21. Oktober 1995. The complete set of six sale catalogues, plus the introductory volume. All 4to, original pictorial card covers; housed in original decorative slipcase. Beautifully illustrated in color throughout with many full-page photographs. Catalogues with minor signs of use; slipcase creased. Near fine. The six volumes include: Volume..... More
San Francisco: Tachyon Publications, 2004. First edition. Introduction by Roger Ebert. 8vo, original black cloth, decorated in gilt; jacket. 255, (1) pages; illustrated. Fine. A highly readable collection of articles first published in this hugely important early comic and Sci-Fi fanzine, with introductory materials by the Lupoffs and Roger Ebert..... More
Paris: Lacrampe & Fertiaux, mai 1848. 8vo, contemporary green quarter calf with mottled sides; spine lettered in gilt. (ii), 106 pages; 896 listings. Very good or better. The scarce catalogue of a major collection, much of which was acquired by the Bibliothèque Nationale and by J. Rousseau. Engel & Serrure..... More
London: Spink & Amgueddfa Cymru, 2019. Second edition. 8vo, original gray boards, gilt; jacket. vii, (1), 166, (2) pages; illustrated in color. New. The revised and updated second edition of this highly readable examination of the numismatic issues of the turbulent years between 1642 and 1660. More
Cold Spring: Davissons, 1994. Concordance compiled by Harold Welch. 4to, original crimson cloth, gilt. Several hundred pages; text illustrations. Signed and numbered by the editor. Fine. One of only 100 copies issued, of which this is No. 54. Provides historical background for the tokens not to be found elsewhere. Davisson..... More
Gamlingay: 2011. Tall 4to, original printed card covers. 164 pages; illustrated. New. Covers the numismatic history of Japan before the Meiji period (i.e., before 1868). Useful guides to the calligraphy, language, production techniques and historical background are also provided. Intended to be of use to both novice and more advanced..... More
Oxford: Ashmolean, 2016. Crown 4to, original black boards lettered in silver; jacket. 160 pages including 63 color plates of coins with facing text. Fine. An important contribution to the study of the coins of Aksum (Axum), and one of the few of Wolfgang Hahn’s works in English. The coin plates..... More
New York: 1851. Second edition. 8vo, original brown cloth paneled in blind and lettered in gilt. (6), 72, (2), xvi, 2, (16), 2 pages; 5 lithographic plates, mostly depicting pioneer gold coins. Spine worn with backstrip partly lacking; very good or so, but with bright unspotted pages. Originally published in..... More
Paris: Bibliothéque Nationale de France / Numismatica Ars Classica, 2018. First edition. Tall 4to, original crimson cloth, gilt; jacket. xlv, (1), (134) pages; 154 plates illustrating 1769 coins. New. A recent addition to the SNG series, focusing on the coins of Roman Alexandria. The SNG France volumes are among the..... More
Zürich: NAC, 2013. 4to, original maroon cloth, gilt; jacket. xviii, 408 pages; illustrated. Fine. A festschrift in honor of Russo, with 19 papers on Greek, Roman and medieval coinage. Most important for Andrew McCabeís 174-page treatise "The Anonymous Struck Bronze Coinage of the Roman Republic: A Provisional Arrangement.'. More
Victoria: Numismatic Education Society of Canada, 2007. Two volumes. 4to, original maroon leatherette, gilt. xxvi, 578, (2); (xxvii)-xxxiv, 581-1114, (2), 95, (1) pages; illustrated. Fine. Essential. One of only 300 sets printed. More
London: British Museum Press, 2002. 4to, original blue cloth, gilt. 215, (1) pages, including 80 plates of coins, each with a page of facing descriptive text, table of legends. Fine. More
Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing, 2019. 4to, original pictorial boards. viii, 324, (2) pages; 57 color plates of coins. Corner bump; else fine. More
New York: 1939. Large 4to, original russet cloth and printed boards. Frontispiece, xiv, 150 pages; 88 plates, many of them folding. Previous owner’s stamp on flyleaf; corner bumps; near fine. Publications of the Joint Expedition of the British Museum and of the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia to Mesopotamia..... More
Corning: The Corning Museum of Glass, 2005. Large 4to, original black cloth, gilt; jacket. 112 pages; illustrated in color throughout. Fine. More