Port Clinton, Ohio: BNR Press, 1983. 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt. (4), 365, (5) pages. Spotting to top page edges; near fine. A fabled modern rarity. Bloom’s book provides what is widely held to be the best overall portrayal of the modern bank note printing business, an international industry made..... More
Pelham: Whitman, 2021. 8vo, original pictorial card covers. xiii, (1), 274 pages; illustrated in color throughout. New. More
New York: ANS, 1976. 8vo, original pictorial boards. (6), 216, (2) pages; illustrated. Fine. A fundamental group of essays and required reading for anyone interested in colonials. More
Written on one side of a sheet of a double-sheet ruled self-mailer. Folded for mailing and sealed with wax; torn upon opening, with small loss at left margin present at right attached to wax remnant. Trace of red postmark; hand-rated. Very good. An interesting letter to New York State Comptroller..... More
Tiburon: Kagin’s, 2019. 4to, original pictorial boards; jacket. 52 pages; illustrated in color. New. A history and catalogue of the Treasury Notes printed in an attempt to finance the War of 1812, including non-interest-bearing notes that circulated as the nation’s first paper money. Only 250 copies printed. More
Boston: Heath, 1864. First edition, 14th printing. Newman 1-P-14(b). 16mo, original blindstamped brown cloth; front cover lettered in gilt. 32 pages; 10 engraved plates of bank note design elements, with original tissue guards, interspersed in the text, with plate 6 serving as a frontispiece, plate 4 printed in red ink..... More
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
Boston & Washington: Heath, 1877. Twelfth pocket edition. Newman 12-P-2. 16mo, original blindstamped green cloth; front cover lettered horizontally in gilt. 47, (1) pages; printed title preceded by a finely engraved title; 10 engraved plates depicting the right-hand sides of United States Notes and National Currency respectively in $1, $2..... More
Portsmouth: 2018. 4to, original red cloth, gilt, inset of scrip on front cover. xvi, 471, (1) pages; illustrated in color throughout. New. Foreword by Q. David Bowers. More
Providence: Society of Colonial Wars, 1942. 8vo, original red cloth, gilt. x, 112 pages; 10 plates, 4 of them impressions of colonial currency taken from the original copperplates, printed on parchment and tipped into place. Fine. A well-preserved copy of this less-frequently seen work on colonial counterfeiting. Clain-Stefanelli 13653. Davis..... More
Dated January 25 and February 15, 1875. Both cards entirely handwritten in black ink on the blank verso of a pre-paid United States Post Card. Postmarked and canceled. Fine. Jeremiah Colburn was one of the few people willing to assume the responsibility for the publication of the American Journal of..... More
Boston: Manufactured by Laban Heath & Co., Patented, December 25, 1877. Two tilting glass lenses housed in a folding nickel-plated brass frame with decorative scrollwork. The microscope when open to its maximum extent is 14.5 by 5 cm wide at the base and 3 cm in height. The lens has..... More
London: Printed by Order of the Society and Sold by the Housekeeper at the Society’s House in the Adelphi, 1819. 8vo [25 by 16 cm], 19th-century polished brown half morocco; spine lettered and dated in gilt. 80 pages, as follows: (4), 1–59, (1), 57*, 58*, 59*, (1), (61)–72, complete as..... More
Written on two sides of a 25 by 20 cm sheet of an unruled double-sheet self-mailer. Folded for mailing; remnant of wax seal, with minor loss from opening. Hand-rated, with strong black and weak red postmarks. Very good. An interesting letter discussing changes to be made to plates engraved by..... More
Pass-A-Grille Beach: 1957. (10), 277, (1) pages; illustrated. [with] Criswell, Grover C., Jr., and Clarence L. Criswell. CONFEDERATE AND SOUTHERN STATE BONDS: A DESCRIPTIVE LISTING, INCLUDING RARITY. St. Petersburg Beach, 1961. (14), 310 pages; illustrated. Two volumes. 8vo, original matching mottled white cloth, gilt. Both volumes inscribed by Grover Criswell..... More
Dallas: Heritage Auctions, November 7 & 10, 2018. 4to, original dark red embossed cloth, gilt; original printed card covers bound in. 224, (6) pages; 526 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..... More
Dallas: Heritage Auctions, November 1-2, 2017. Parts 1 & 2 in one volume. 4to, original dark red embossed cloth, gilt; original printed card covers bound in. 440, (6) pages; 1624 lots; illustrated in color; prices realized list bound in. New. Special Hardcover Edition; dark red cover variant. The Eric P...... More
Dallas: Heritage Auctions, October 21-24, 2015. 4to, original dark red embossed cloth, gilt; original printed card covers bound in. 324, (6) pages; 2228 lots; illustrated in color; prices realized list bound in. New. Special Hardcover Edition; dark red cover variant. The Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society will receive $25..... More
Chicago: Heritage Auctions, April 23 and 27, 2015. 4to, original dark red embossed cloth, gilt; original printed card covers bound in. 492, (12) pages; 1389 lots; illustrated in color; prices realized list bound in. New. Special Hardcover Edition; dark red cover variant. The Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society will..... More
Buenos Aires: 2009. 8vo, original pictorial card covers. 170, (4) pages; illustrated. Fine. More
Montevideo: 2010. 8vo, original pictorial card covers. 181, (1) pages; illustrated in color. Near fine. More
London: Spink & the Royal Collection Trust, 2018. 4to, original blue cloth, gilt; jacket. vii, (1), 184 pages; illustrated in color. New. A well-catalogued and illustrated work describing the contents of the collection, and discussing various highlights, many of which have never before been thoroughly described in the numismatic literature..... More
Eight State of New-York Senate bank reports, bound in one volume. January and February 1842. Small 8vo, later blue cloth, gilt. (40) pages; binder’s leaves added for bulk. Fine. Ex Armand Champa Library, with his bookplate. More
Augusta: Stevens & Blaine, 1855. 8vo, original printed green paper covers. 54, (2) pages. Folded; minor spotting. Very good. Ex John J. Ford, Jr. Library. More
Nashville: Printed at “Union and American” Book and Job Rooms, 1872. 8vo, original printed yellow paper covers. 37, (3) pages. Front cover reattached with archival mending tissue; rear lacking. Very good or so. Rare. One might surmise the catalyst of the bank’s problems from the date cited in the title..... More