Seventy-seven volumes total, as follows: Collection de Bibliographie Classique. I: Bibliographie de l’antiquité classique 1896–1914. Première partie: auteurs et textes [the second part, Matières et disciplines, was never published]. 1951. 8vo, later tan linen and marbled boards. [with] II: Dix années de bibliographie classique: bibliographie critique et analytique de l’antiquité..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1929. 8vo, original brown cloth gilt; top page edges gilt. Frontispiece portrait; 540 pages; engraving tipped in. Near fine. More
New York: 1968. Tall 8vo, original tan cloth, gilt. xiii, 62, (12) pages; illustrated. Fine. More
Anstösse, Erarbeitungsformen und Wirkungen städtischer Satzungen zum Münzwesen im Längsschnitt. Zürich: Chronos Verlag, 2009. 8vo, original pictorial boards. 375, (1) pages. Ex George F. Kolbe library with his bookplate on pastedown. Fine. Provides detailed information on various monetary edicts. Kolbe 223. More
London: 1979. Folio, original brown cloth, gilt; jacket. 160 pages; illustrated. Minor wear, bump to bottom edge of cover. Near fine. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. Folio, original tan cloth printed in black with red leather and gilt spine label; jacket; decorative endpapers. xii, 99, (1) pages; printed in red and black throughout with some color illustrations. Jacket clipped and worn at edges; interior near fine. About this important medieval..... More
London: November 23–24, 1981. 8vo, original printed card covers. 69, (3) pages; 518 lots; 7 plates. Prices realized list with buyers’ names. Near fine. A very important sale of rare Russian numismatic (and other) books. Lots 1–151 comprised the highly desirable and important numismatic content of the sale. Unimpressive in..... More
Gahanna: Kolbe & Fanning, 2020. [PRE-ORDER] Deluxe edition, limited to 10 copies. Crown 4to, blue quarter morocco. Will be available by early 2021. Binding will be similar to the Deluxe Edition of George F. Kolbe's Reference Library of a Numismatic Bookseller, pictured. 288 pages; illustrated in color throughout. New. A..... More
Gahanna: Kolbe & Fanning, 2020. Crown 4to, original blue cloth, gilt; jacket. 288 pages; illustrated in color throughout. Signed copies available upon request. New. A bibliography and analysis of American auction catalogues issued before the Second World War that feature photographically printed illustrations of ancient coins. Includes biographical material concerning..... More
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
New York: Vanguard, 1926. 8vo, original marbled cloth spine and blue cloth; printed spine label. Engraved frontispiece; title page printed in black and red; xi, (1), 108 pages; illustrated. Printed on heavy paper with deckled fore-edge. Spine a bit rubbed; one corner starting. Very good. A memorial volume bringing together..... More
New York: Weathervane, 1970. Reprint. 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt; jacket. xxi, (1), 650 pages. Some wear to jacket; near fine. Not numismatic, but of considerable importance for the period covered. Originally published in 1810, this edition is based on the 1874 revision edited by Joel Munsell, Samuel Foster Haven..... More
Lincoln: Quarterman, 1992. 4to, original black cloth, gilt. xii, 218, (2) pages. Near fine. An essential reference, with erudite and astute commentary. More
Genève: Droz, 2018. 8vo, original printed card covers. cxlviii, 592, (4) pages. New. A recent French translation of the first three books of Budé’s enormously important De asse et partibus ejus, first published in 1514 and recognized today as the first printed numismatic book. While the significance of Budé’s work..... More
New York: Gilliss Press, 1895. 12mo, original printed card covers. 103, (1) pages. Fine or nearly so. A notable early Grolier Club exhibition catalogue, featuring 237 detailed descriptions, of which numbers 178–210 describe bank note vignettes. More
Brugge: 1983. 8vo, original printed card covers. 209, (3) pages; illustrated. Near fine. Ex Herbert Kreindler library with his bookplate. More
Bruxelles: Fr. Gobbaerts, Imprimeur du Roi, 1883. 8vo, later brown cloth and decorative boards; spine lettered in gilt. xi, (1), 474 pages. One leaf bound out of order. Fine. One of the best of several specialized European numismatic bibliographies that appeared in the late nineteenth century. Arranged alphabetically, the author’s..... More
Minneapolis: Ramm Communications, 1989. 4to, original blue cloth, gilt; original printed card covers bound in. (9), 243 pages, printed on rectos only. Cover letter laid in. Inscribed by the compiler and autographed by fourteen others who contributed to its content or production. Fine. Special Hardcover Edition. An important compilation of..... More
New Castle: Oak Knoll, 2004. 4to, original black cloth-backed boards, gilt; jacket. 176 pages; illustrated. New. An important publication presenting considerable evidence in favor of the view that what we call “edition binding” came about earlier than previously thought, and that many books sold in the mid-18th century were sold..... More
New York: June 13–15, 1967. 8vo, original printed card covers. (2), 136 pages; 1370 lots; 6 plates. Fine. Features important Canadian coins. Lots 15–163 comprised an excellent selection of rare and desirable American numismatic literature, superbly catalogued at the zenith of his career by John J. Ford, Jr., in characteristically..... More
Dallas: Heritage Auctions, November 7-9, 2018. 4to, original dark red embossed cloth, gilt; original printed card covers bound in. 270, (6) pages; 416 lots; illustrated in color throughout; prices realized list bound in. New. Special Hardcover Edition; dark red cover variant. The Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society will receive..... More
Philadelphia: 2004. 4to, original pictorial card covers. Color frontispiece plate; title printed in red and black; (28), 33, (1), (44) pages; 13 additional plates in black and white. In German and Russian. Fine. [with] SUPPLEMENTUM. Philadelphia, 2008. 4to, original pictorial card covers. Color folding frontispiece plate; title printed in red..... More
Paris: 2012. 8vo, original printed card covers. xvii, (1), 326, (2) pages. Fine. More
(Louisville): (1988). 4to, original white three-ring binder; color 5 by 7 inch photo of the attendees on front cover. Fifteen plastic sheets, housing a printed invitation card and eighty-four 3.5 by 5 inch color photographs, depicting attendees, books, the library, etc. A handwritten letter from Champa is included, as is..... More
Cedar Pines Park: 2012. Tall 8vo; original green textured Japanese bookbinding cloth; red morocco spine label; gilt. 335, (1) pages; illustrated. New. Out of print. Edition limited to 150 copies. An essential work for those interested in numismatic literature. The book begins with a foreword by Jonathan H. Kagan and..... More