IMPORTANT NUMISMATIC LITERATURE. SALE 151.
Gahanna: Kolbe & Fanning, January 26, 2019. 4to, original brown cloth, gilt; original pictorial covers bound in. 128 pages; 500 lots; profusely illustrated in color. PRL bound in. New. More
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COLLEZIONE DI MONETE ITALIANE MEDIOEVALI E MODERNE DEL CAV. GIANCARLO ROSSI. ORDINATA E DESCRITTA DA ARTURO BIGNAMI. …PER CURA DEL CAV. ORTENSIO VITALINI.
Roma: 22 aprile 1895. 4to, later brown cloth-backed marbled boards; spine lettered in gilt; original printed front card covers bound in. viii, 142, (2) pages; 1318 lots; 3 fine Fototipia plates. Text browned and plates foxed. Very good. Very scarce. More
CONTE ALESSANDRO MAGNAGUTI. EX NUMMIS HISTORIA. XI: MONETE E MEDAGLIE DIE ROMANI PONTEFICI.
Roma: (4–5 Giugno) 1956. 4to, original printed card covers with integral plate folder. xxii, 93, (1) pages; 518 lots; 26 very fine plates. Near fine. Covers Papal coins from the 9th to the 20th centuries. A classic sale, with excellent plates. Clain-Stefanelli 10392. Grierson 273–274. More
CATALOGUE DE MONNAIES GRECQUES ANTIQUES PROVENANT DE LA COLLECTION DE FEU LE PROF. S. POZZI.
The 1966 reprint of the 1921 sale. 4to, original gray cloth, gilt. (6), 194 pages; tables; 3334 lots; 101 plates depicting every coin offered; prices realized list. Fine. More
EARLY U.S. LARGE CENTS, 1793–1814, THE PROPERTY OF MR. R.E. NAFTZGER, JR. AND ANCIENT GREEK COINS, THE PROPERTY OF A DIPLOMAT...
New York: November 14–15, 1973. Small 4to, original pictorial card covers. 105, (3) pages; 1066 lots; 48 plates. original estimates and prices realized lists laid in. All of the large cent lots (324–608) are priced and named, generally with initials that are in the first instance spelled out (see comments)..... More
CATALOGUE OF THE JOHN STORY JENKS COLLECTION OF COINS. ANCIENT GREEK, ROMAN AND THE ENTIRE WORLD. EARLY AMERICAN COLONIAL AND STATE ISSUES AND UNITED STATES PATTERNS AND THE REGULAR ISSUES.
Philadelphia: Davis & Harvey, Dec. 7–17, 1921. 4to, recent white linen, gilt, in the style of the original. xii, 653, (3) pages; 7302 lots; 42 superb photographic plates of coins and medals. Original printed prices realized list laid in. General wear with some marginal discoloration. Very good or better contents..... More
THE GIOVANNI MARIA STAFFIERI COLLECTION OF THE COINS OF ROMAN ALEXANDRIA. TRITON XXI.
New York: January 9, 2018. 4to, original black leatherette, gilt; original pictorial card covers bound in. 144 pages; 273 lots; illustrated in color. New. The Special Hardcover Edition of the catalogue of this magnificent collection of Roman provincial coins of Alexandria. More
AUCTION SALE ONE HUNDRED SEVEN. THE TWINLEAF LIBRARY.
New York: Jan. 10, 2009. 4to, original silver cloth, stamped in green; original printed card covers bound in. 72 pages; 100 lots; prices realized list bound in. Fine. The regular hardcover edition. More
CATALOGUE OF AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF ORIENTAL COINS IN GOLD, SILVER AND BRONZE.
London: 30 June 1965. Crown 4to, original printed card covers. 50 pages; 624 lots; 20 fine plates; price realized printed by each lot. Handwritten note on front cover, else fine. An important sale of Asian coins, most particularly for Chinese silver dollars, Cambodian issues, Korean patterns, and primitive money. The..... More
THE SUBURBAN WASHINGTON D.C. COIN CONVENTION / THE EARLY AMERICAN COPPER SOCIETY CONVENTION.
New Carrolton and New York: Feb. 27–28, 1976 and Mar. 5–6, 1976. 4to, original pictorial card covers. 140 pages; 2821 lots; 24 plates. Lots 2200–2436, consisting of a few consignments of large cents, are heavily annotated in pencil by Del Bland, recording the sale price, bidder numbers and identities where..... More
NUMISMATICA AMERICANA. THE JOHN J. FORD, JR. REFERENCE LIBRARY. PART ONE.
Riverside: June 1, 2004. 4to, original tan cloth, gilt; original printed card covers bound in. 308 pages; 1000 lots; prices realized list bound in. Fine. The regular hardbound edition of the Ford sale, part I, available only to the subscribers to Kolbe's regular hardcover editions (ten additional copies of the..... More
NUMISMATICA AMERICANA. THE JOHN J. FORD, JR. REFERENCE LIBRARY. PARTS ONE AND TWO.
Riverside: June 1, 2004, and Long Beach, June 4 and 6, 2005. Two volumes. 4to, original brown quarter morocco; fine black cloth sides lettered in gilt and with color illustrations mounted on front covers; all page edges gilt; silk markers; specially commissioned marbled endpapers; clear dust-jackets. 308, (2); 172 pages;..... More
NUMISMATICA AMERICANA. THE JOHN J. FORD, JR. REFERENCE LIBRARY. PARTS ONE AND TWO.
Riverside: June 1, 2004, and Long Beach, June 4 and 6, 2005. Two volumes. 4to, original gray quarter morocco; fine black cloth sides lettered in gilt and with color illustrations mounted on front covers; all page edges gilt; silk markers; specially commissioned marbled endpapers; clear dust-jackets. 308, (2); 172 pages;..... More
SEVENTH JOINT PUBLIC AUCTION SALE. IMPORTANT NUMISMATIC BOOKS, FEATURING DUPLICATED FROM THE OUTSTANDING NUMISMATIC LIBRARY OF STACK’S AND OTHER FINE PROPERTIES...
New York: December 10–11, 1988. 4to, original green cloth, gilt; card covers bound in. 65, (3) pages; 758 lots; prices realized list. Fine. The hardcover edition of Kolbe’s 38th sale, an especially important New York sale. More
MAIL BID SALE FIFTY-THREE. NUMISMATIC LITERATURE. FEATURING PART I OF THE EXTENSIVE NUMISMATIC LIBRARY FORMED BY THE LATE ALFRED SZEGO.
Crestline: November 7, 1992. 4to, original light tan cloth, lettered in black; original printed card covers bound in. 51, (1), (2) pages; 993 lots; prices realized list bound in. Fine. The hardbound edition. More
MAIL BID SALE SIXTY-SEVEN. THE EXTENSIVE NUMISMATIC LIBRARY FORMED BY J. ROY PENNELL, JR. IMPORTANT DUPLICATES FROM THE DAN HAMELBERG LIBRARY...
Crestline: October 12, 1996. 4to, original black cloth, gilt; original printed card covers bound in. 96 pages; 2118 lots; prices realized list bound in. Fine. The hardbound edition. More
CATALOGUE OF THE VALUABLE AND EXTENSIVE AND COLLECTION OF COINS, MEDALS, & NUMISMATIC BOOKS, THE PROPERTY OF HENRY WHITMORE, ESQ.
New York: Nov. 2–3, 1859. 8vo, original printed paper covers. 36 pages; 609 lots. More than 300 of the first 400 lots hand-priced in ink, with buyer names provided for twenty or so lots. Removed from previous binding. Very good or so. Sage’s last catalogue. Q. David Bowers has written..... More
COLLECTION OF COINS, COLONIAL AND CONTINENTAL CURRENCY, U.S. FRACTIONAL NOTES, ETC., OF E.B. STERLING, ESQ., OF TRENTON, N.J.
New York: Feb. 9, 1887. Cover title cited. 8vo, original printed paper covers. 25, (1) pages; 551 lots. Partly hand-priced in pencil in Henry Chapman’s handwriting, with occasional annotations. Folded for mailing; very good or better. Adams 64: “1838, 1839 $1. Excellent colonial and fractional currency.” Henry Chapman’s bidbook, though..... More
AUCTION SALE ONE HUNDRED EIGHT. THE DR. FERDINANDO BASSOLI LIBRARY.
New York: Jan. 10, 2009. 4to, original cream cloth, stamped in copper; original printed card covers bound in. 108 pages; 101–275 lots; prices realized list bound in. Fine. The regular hardcover edition. More
NUMISMATICA AMERICANA. THE JOHN J. FORD, JR. REFERENCE LIBRARY. PART I.
Riverside: June 1, 2004. 4to, original fine black cloth lettered in gilt and with color illustrations mounted on front cover; page edges speckled; silk markers; clear dust-jacket. 308, (2) pages; 1000 lots; numerous color and monochrome illustrations, prices realized list. Fine. The Deluxe Hardcover Edition of Kolbe Sale 93, available..... More
CATALOGUE OF THE MAGNIFICENT COLLECTION OF COINS OF THE UNITED STATES FORMED BY JOHN G. MILLS, ESQ., ALBANY, NEW YORK.
Philadelphia: Davis & Harvey, April 27–29, 1904. 4to, later white cloth, gilt. (2), 109, (1) pages; 1848 lots; 14 very fine photographic plates; original printed prices realized list bound in. Partly hand-priced in pencil with notations on PRL. Near fine. Adams 74, rated A+ overall: “Sommer set. Season medal set..... More
CATALOGUE OF COINS AND MEDALS, INCLUDING THE COLLECTION OF GREEK, ROMAN & ENGLISH COINS, &C.… THE PROPERTY OF GEORGE HODGES… ALSO A COLLECTION OF TRADESMEN'S COPPER TOKENS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, INCLUDING THE RARE BIRMINGHAM SIXPENCE, THE DOUGLAS COPPER SHILLING, THE JERSEY HALFPENNY, AND MANY PATTERNS AND PROOFS, THE PROPERTY OF WILIAM NORMAN, ESQ.…
London: 27–28 June 1905. Small 8vo, contemporary red three-quarter morocco, gilt; professionally rebacked spine with four raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers. 43, (1) pages; 324 lots. Second day’s sale, comprising the Norman collection (lots 168–324) hand-priced in ink with numerous annotations by a knowledgeable specialist, noting..... More
EARLY AMERICAN HISTORICAL MEDALS. MEDALS PRESENTED TO INDIAN CHIEFS. ORDERS OF CHIVALRY, ART MEDALS AND PLAQUES. COLLECTION OF THE LATE CHARLES P. SENTER.
New York: American Art Association, Oct. 27, 1933. 8vo, original printed card covers. (8), 32, (2) pages, including 4 plates; 248 lots. Mostly hand-priced in pencil, with occasional initials. Very good or better. Adams 16. Rated A+, overall: “Hurriedly written but a landmark medal sale. Betts series: Matanzas, Albemarle, Oglethorpe..... More
CATALOGUE OF THE SPLENDID RARE COIN COLLECTION OF THE LATE HENRY C. MILLER, ESQ.
New York: Daniel R. Kennedy, Auctioneer, May 26–29, 1920. Small 4to [27.5 by 22 cm], later black full morocco; spine with five raised bands, ruled in gilt; two red morocco spine labels, gilt; original gilt-printed card covers bound in. 154, (6) pages; 2212 lots; 28 superb photographic plates on cloth..... More
CATALOGUE OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICAN GOLD COINS, COLOMBIAN GOLD ORNAMENTS. THE PROPERTY OF AN AMERICAN COLLECTOR.
London: 11–12 March 1936. Crown 4to, original printed card covers. 27, (1) pages; 416 lots; 9 fine plates. Ruled in ink and neatly hand priced in ink. Covers worn and detached; contents near fine. A very scarce catalogue, with nine fine plates, offering Latin American gold coins from the vast..... More