A GUIDE BOOK OF BARBER SILVER COINS
Pelham: Whitman, 2019. 2nd edition. 8vo,original pictorial card covers. xiii, (1), 386 pages; illustrated in color. New. Volume 20 in the Official Red Book Series. The expanded and updated second edition. More
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ENGRAVERS, MINTERS, AND DISTRIBUTORS OF CIVIL WAR TOKENS.
Civil War Token Society, 2018. 8vo, original pictorial boards. 264 pages; illustrated in color. New. “A source book for patriotic tokens, store cards, and sutler tokens. Histories, biographies, die details, and more.” An important contribution to this facet of Americana. More
A GUIDE BOOK OF HALF CENTS AND LARGE CENTS.
Atlanta: Whitman, 2015. 8vo, original pictorial card covers. xii, 564 pages; illustrated in color throughout. New. Volume 19 in the Official Red Book Series. Foreward by Harry E. Salyards. More
PUBLIC AUCTION. 67TH ANNIVERSARY SALE. THE QUELLER FAMILY COLLECTION OF UNITED STATES HALF DOLLARS: 1794-1963. AS FORMED BY DAVID QUELLER. [with] PUBLIC AUCTION. 67TH ANNIVERSARY SALE. UNITED STATES GOLD, SILVER, AND COPPER COINS. FEATURING THE T. ROOSEVELT FAMILY SATIN PROOF 1907 HIGH RELIEF SAINT GAUDENS DOUBLE EAGLE.; FEATURING THE T. ROOSEVELT FAMILY SATIN PROOF 19 07 HIGH RELIEF SAINT GAUDENS DOUBLE EAGLE.
New York: Oct. 15-17, 2002. Two volumes. 4to, original silver and blue leatherette, gilt; original printed card covers bound in. 233, (7) pages; 968 lots; illustrated throughout and on 17 color plates. 79, (5) pages; lots 1001-2068; illustrated throughout and on 6 + (1) color plates. Only slight signs of..... More
THE METROPOLITAN NUMISMATIC JOURNAL.
1961. Issue 1 (May-June 1961). 8vo, self-covered. 16 pages. Near fine. The only issued published. According to Ken Lowe ("American Numismatic Periodicals from 1860 to 1960: An Overview Based on Remy Bourne's Book of the Same Name"), "apparently between 200 and 300 copies of the first issue were produced. The..... More
PUBLIC AUCTION & MAIL BID SALE VI.
Minneapolis: September 12–13, 1997. 4to, bound in the original maroon processed half leather; flat spines lettered in gilt; moiré cloth sides; marbled paper and moiré cloth flyleaves; prices realized printed in red ink by each lot. Fine. Deluxe Hardbound Edition. More
GERMAN RENAISSANCE MEDALS: A CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION IN THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM.
Gloucester: 1990. 4to, original green boards, gilt; jacket. (8), 128 pages; well illustrated. Fine. More
HOUDON IN AMERICA: A COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTS IN THE JEFFERSON PAPERS IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1930. Tall 8vo, original cloth-backed blue printed boards. Frontispiece of bust of Washington; xxvi, 51 untrimmed heavy textured paper; illustrated. Near fine. More
1794 LARGE CENTS, GRADED AND UPDATED. THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THE 1794’S. PLUS FOR THE FIRST TIME A PHOTOGRAPHIC GRADING GUIDE TO THE SERIES.
Cape Kennedy: 1979. 8vo, original brown cloth, gilt; original printed card covers bound in. (10), 42 pages; illustrated throughout. Fine. The Special Hardbound Edition. Quite scarce. More
THE EAGLE THAT IS FORGOTTEN: PIERRE EUGÈNE DU SIMITIÈRE, FOUNDING FATHER OF AMERICAN NUMISMATICS.
Wolfeboro: 1988. 8vo, original pictorial card covers. 75, (5) pages; illustrated. Fine. Orosz’s is an important and well-written monograph on the earliest days of the numismatic hobby in the United States and one of the pivotal personalities behind its development. More
THE 1822 GOLD HALF EAGLE: STORY OF A RARITY.
Wolfeboro: 2014. 4to, original black leather, gilt. ix, (1), 116, (2) pages; illustrated. Signed bookplate on front pastedown. Fine. More
RENIER CHALON ALIAS FORTSAS. UN ÉRUDIT MALICIEUX AU MITAN DU XIXE SIÈCLE.
Musée Royal de Mariemont, 2008. 4to, original printed card covers. 155, (3) pages; illustrated. Fine. Chalon is best known today for his role in the Fortsas hoax in 1840, which involved an obscure auction sale consisting exclusively of “unique” works unknown in the standard bibliographies, which had been dreamed up..... More
ANGLO-GALLIC COINS MONNAIES ANGLO-FRANÇAISES OF AQUITAINE, BERGERAC, ISSOUDUM, PONTHIEU, POITOU AND THE ROYAL COINS OF HENRY V AND HENRY VI.
Powys, Wales: Galata, 2015. 4to, original pictorial boards. 200 pages; illustrated in color. New. More
AMERICAN ART MEDALS, 1909-1995: THE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS OF THE MEDALLION AND THE SOCIETY OF MEDALISTS.
New York: ANS, 2010. 4to, original tan cloth lettered in black; jacket. ix, (1), 294 pages; well illustrated, largely in color. New. Studies in Medallic Art, No. 1. An important recent work on the subject. More
BYZANTINE AND EARLY MEDIEVAL WESTERN EUROPEAN COINS IN THE HUNTER COIN CABINET, UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW.
London: 1998. 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt; jacket. xix, (1), 180 pages; 29 plates of coins. Fine. An important catalogue of this major collection, cataloguing 569 Byzantine coins and 156 early medieval coins (many of them Ostrogothic or Merovingian). More
ROMAN QUINARII: FROM THE REPUBLIC TO DIOCLETIAN AND THE TETRARCHY.
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007. Crown 4to, original red cloth, gilt; jacket. (2), xxiv, 436, (2) pages; 37 plates plus 17 plates of enlargements. Fine. An important recent work by a 30-year veteran of the Heberden Coin Room in the Ashmolean Museum. Very well produced and amply illustrated. More
WALTER BREEN'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF UNITED STATES HALF CENTS 1793-1857.
South Gate: American Institute of Numismatic Research, 1983. 4to, original red leatherette, gilt. ix, (1), 501, (17) pages; well illustrated, partly in color. Fine. The most detailed reference available. More
THE CHALFONT HOARD AND OTHER ROMAN COIN HOARDS.
London: 1992. 4to, original green boards, gilt; jacket. 366, (2) pages; 32 plates of coins. Fine. More
SILVER COINAGE OF THE PHOKIANS.
London: 1972. Small 4to, original red cloth, gilt; jacket. ix, 137, (3) pages; map; 16 plates. Near new. Royal Numismatic Society Special Publication No. 7. Daehn 2412. Grierson 63. Kroh 32 (four and one-half stars): "an excellent die-study of this series." More
A PENNY SAVED: R.S. YEOMAN AND HIS REMARKABLE RED BOOK
Pelham: Whitman, 2021. 4to, original pictorial boards. xvii, (1) 333, (1) pages; illustrated in color throughout. New. From the publisher: "Ken Bressett has compiled the most complete historical record of the Red Book and the life of its creator, including never-before-published documents from the Whitman Publishing archives. Bressett, who worked..... More
COINAGE OF THE NABATAEANS.
Jerusalem: Hebrew University Institute of Archaeology, 2019. 4to, original pictorial boards. xvi, 149, (3) pages; text illustrations; 15 color plates. New. Provides a history of the Nabataean kingdom and an overview of the chronological sequence of the coinage arranged by monarch, followed by a thorough catalogue listing 237 types of..... More
THE TOKEN: AMERICA'S OTHER MONEY.
New York: ANS, 1995. 8vo, original brown cloth, gilt. xii, 224, (4) pages; illustrated. Fine. The proceedings of the tenth Coinage of the Americas Conference. More
AMERICA'S SILVER DOLLARS.
New York: ANS, 1995. 8vo, original blue cloth lettered in silver. xii, 127, (5) pages; illustrated. Fine. Coinage of the Americas Conference Proceedings No. 9. More
COINAGE OF THE AMERICAN CONFEDERATION PERIOD.
New York: ANS, 1996. 8vo, original maroon cloth, lettered in silver. xii, 346, (2) pages. Fine. The proceedings of the 11th Coinage of the Americas Conference. More
THE HISTORY AND COINAGE OF THE ROMAN IMPERATORS 49–27 BC.
London: Spink, 2021 reprint. Crown 4to, original silver-printed blue cloth; jacket. xxxii, 360 pages; illustrated. New. A new printing of Sear’s classic study of the coins struck during the transitional period between the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. More