Important Numismatic Literature at Kolbe & Fanning

Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers announced that they will be holding their next auction sale on Saturday, May 31, 2025. The sale includes rare and out-of-print works on ancient, world and U.S. numismatics, including the second half of the L.D. & I.P. Library and additional selections from the library of Barry Tayman. With 500 lots, there is something for everybody.

Some highlights of this first sale include:

Lot 52. Estimate: $600.

• Lot 52: a set of Calciati’s magnificent Pegasi, accompanied by original prints (signed and numbered) of art used in the book.
• Lot 69: Raymond & Charles Dupriez’s own set of their catalogues, comprising some 118 catalogues bound in over twenty volumes, including many named sales and rarities.
• Lot 111: the 1912 Hess catalogues of the Tolstoï and Prowe collections of Roman Republican coins, bound together in contemporary maroon half morocco.

Lot 169. Estimate: $600.

• Lot 169: André de Ritter’s folio catalogue of the engraved gems in the Louis De Clercq collection, one of a number of books on engraved gems offered from the Pierre Bastien library.

Lot 242. Estimate: $500.

• Lot 242: M. de Bettange’s significant 1760 work on coining, Traité des monoyes, as issued in two volumes and in a contemporary mottled calf binding.
• Lot 273: a complete hardcover set of Jeffrey Hoare auction catalogues, 1986–2007, comprising seventy-three catalogues bound in twenty-two volumes.
• Lot 312: the 1730 London edition of The Hibernian Patriot, being Jonathan Swift’s anonymously published Drapier’s Letters against the coinage of William Wood in Ireland.
• Lot 359: a very rare plated copy of S.H. Chapman’s 1920 catalogue of the W.H. Hunter collection, one of only a small number of copies known with 9 superb photographic plates.
• Lot 370: an original subscription set of Sylvester Crosby’s The Early Coins of America, as issued in separate fascicles and still in the original printed paper covers.

Lot 395. Estimate: $10,000.

• Lot 395: Eric P. Newman and Burdette Johnson’s records of their acquisition and disposition of the Colonel E.H.R. Green collection, one of the most important archives in American numismatic history.