Liège: Vaillant-Carmanne, 1947. 4to, original printed card covers. 79, (1) pages; 23 fine plates, half of them depicting coins and medals. Covers and fore-edge spotted. Very good. A focused monograph on this famous engraver of coins and medals, who made important innovations at the Paris mint. One of 500 copies..... More
Greenwich: National Maritime Museum, 1950. Second edition. Oblong 4to, original cloth-backed printed boards. (2), viii, 468 pages. Ex-library, with label on pastedown and a few internal markings; cloth worn. Very good or so. Important and rare. The best edition, incorporating the 1939 supplement and the many medals acquired in the..... More
St. Louis: 1995. 8vo, original printed card covers. 122 pages. Fine. Sixteenth Century Bibliography, Volume 32. More
Copenhagen: Ordenshistorisk Selskab, 1999. 8vo, original printed pictorial blue card covers. 321, (1) pages. Near fine. An excellent work on this prolific and highly regarded early numismatic author, with an introduction by Christian Dekesel. More
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
No publisher information. 8vo, original printed card covers. 15, (1) pages; illustrated. Some writing in pencil on cover; near fine. The Henry Clay work is a still-useful overview of the medallic tributes to this extraordinarily influential leader of the Whig Party. More
Descriptions by William Blades; introduction by Henry Morris. Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1996. 8vo, original brown cloth, gilt; accompanying tan card covered folder with medal reproductions; housed together in brown cloth slipcase. 32, (4) pages; title printed in russet and black; 4 gold-tinted medal illustrations; 17th-century trade card reproduced..... More
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
Boston: Published by John Park, July 11, 1806. Intact newspaper of 4 pages printed at typical tabloid size. Prints a letter from Commodore Edward Preble accepting his Congressional gold medal, in the first column of page 3. Removed from previous binding, but spine mostly intact. Very good. A contemporary newspaper..... More
Atlanta: Whitman, 2016. 8vo, original pictorial card covers. xi, (1), 596 pages; illustrated in color throughout. New. Foreward by Leonard D. Augsburger. More
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
Bruxelles: 1876–1880. Four volumes, complete. 8vo, original matching cloth-backed printed boards. xliv, 324 + 426 + vi, 410 + vi, 292 pages; 2 plates of armorials. Interleaved throughout and with innumerable manuscript notes on the interleaves and in the main printed text. Lacking the 20 plates of jetons. Bindings worn..... More
New York: Eros, 1983. Small 4to, original brown leatherette, gilt; jacket. xvi, (4), 319, (5) pages. Fine. A significant work on the subject, limited to 300 copies. Davis 829. More
London: Spink, 1994. 8vo, original printed card covers. 138 pages; illustrated. Fine. More
Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1846. 12mo, original cream colored cloth, embossed and decorated in blind and impressed with an image of a medal depicting Pharamond, legendary King of France, in gilt on the front cover and in blind on the back; spine ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt; all page..... More
Monte Carlo: Editions Victor Gadoury, 2005. 8vo, original printed card covers. 87, (1) pages; illustrated. New. More
Monaco: Editions Victor Gadoury, 2008. Large 4to, original red cloth, gilt; jacket. 252, (2) pages; illustrated in color throughout. New. An important recent publication. More
1973. reprint. 4to, original brown cloth, gilt. (2), 160 pages; 60 plates. Fine. Clain-Stefanelli 14547. Engel et Serrure 5790. Grierson 262. More
Carson City: 2018. Thin 8vo, original pictorial card covers. 64, (4) pages; illustrated. New. The price supplement for Shevlin and Hyder’s So-Called Dollars from the Pacific Coast Expositions. More
Carmichael: 2011. 4to, original brown processed leather, gilt. xi, (1), 74, (10) pages; well-illustrated in color. New. The deluxe edition, one of 75 thus bound. Signed by the authors on the half title. More
Lawrence: Quarterman, 1974. 8vo, original yellow cloth, gilt. 333, (1) pages; illustrated. Near fine. An important collection of articles that are otherwise difficult to obtain. More
London: Spink, 2016. Two volumes, complete. 4to, matching blue cloth, gilt; color medal insets. 830 pages; illustrated throughout in color. New. A comprehensive and beautifully produced work, covering medals produced from 1777 to 1890. The new standard work on the subject. More
Springfield: 2002. 8vo, original blue cloth lettered in copper; jacket. ix, (1), 326 pages; portrait; text illustrations; 8 color plates. Fine. A well-done examination of this 19th-century die-sinker and medalist. More
München: 24. April 1900 und folgende Tage. 8vo, recent blue linen, gilt; original printed card covers bound in. (4), 104 pages; 2283 + 5 lots; 4 halftone plates. Neatly hand-priced in ink. Fine. Though this was the fourth catalogue issued by Hirsch, this was his first auction sale, the three..... More
Zürich: 18 May 2017. 4to, original pictorial card covers. 549, (7) pages; 8052 lots; illustrated in color. Prices realized list laid in. Previous owner annotations on title page; near fine. Advance proof softcover copy of this important sale of Swiss shooting medals. More