Kolbe & Fanning – Important Numismatic Books Sale 172

Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers holds their next auction sale on Saturday, January 25, 2025. The sale includes rare and out-of-print works on ancient, world and U.S. numismatics, including the first half of the L.D. & I.P. Library. With over 500 lots, there is something for everybody.

Some highlights of this first sale include:

Lot 38.

• Lot 38: a 1590 edition of Camden’s Britannia, in a contemporary armorial binding featuring the arms of Jacques Auguste de Thou & Marie de Barbançon-Cany. Estimate: $1,800.
• Lot 110: a set of Giuseppe Mazzini’s Monete imperiali romane, with 531 fine plates illustrating an incredible 8051 coins, tesserae and contorniates. Estimate: $1,800.
• Lot 128: a nearly complete run of Rodolfo Ratto’s very rare early (1894–1911) fixed price lists, a much more difficult series to collect than his later emissions. Estimate: $1,500.

Lot 210.

• Lot 210: Giuseppe Sangiorgi’s excellent plated catalogue of the Prospero Sarti collection of Roman coins, entirely priced and mostly named. Estimate: $900.
• Lot 289: José Toribio Medina’s scarce and important 1919 work on the obsidional coins of Spanish America, in a contemporary binding. Estimate: $750.
• Lot 362: a fine presentation copy of Thomas Sharp’s 1834 catalogue of the Chetwynd collection of provincial copper coins, a legendary rarity. Estimate: $3,000.
• Lot 372: an extensive set of The Numismatist, an unparalleled, comprehensive chronicle of coin collecting in America. Estimate: $1,500.

Lot 398.

• Lot 398: a very rare plated copy of the Chapman Brothers’ 1905 catalogue of the Charles Morris collection, from the Armand Champa Library. Estimate: $5,000.
• Lot 400: Henry Chapman’s massive 1921 catalogue of the John Story Jenks collection, with 42 superb photographic plates. Estimate: $1,500.

Lot 484.

• Lot 484: Wayte Raymond’s rare 1925 W.W.C. Wilson catalogue featuring 45 exceptional photographic plates, definitive for early American and Canadian material. Estimate: $5,000.