KOLBE & FANNING’S NEW YORK BOOK AUCTION RESULTS

Kolbe & Fanning held our 2016 New York Book Auction on Saturday, January 9, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. Conducted in conjunction with the 2016 New York International Numismatic Convention, the sale featured the celebrated RBW Library on Roman Republican coinage and other properties. The 455-lot sale brought above its total estimate and was a success on all fronts.

Some highlights included (all prices given below are hammer prices):

Lot 29, Bahrfeldt’s three-part revision of Babelon on Roman Republican coins, was keenly competed for and brought $4250 on a $1000 estimate.

Lot 42, the very rare catalogue of the Carlos de Beistegui collection, brought $6000.

Lot 48, a copy of Borghesi’s work on Cardinal de Zelada’s aes grave, with wonderful additional illustrations in ink, brought $2250 on a $500 estimate.

Lot 55, the Duke of Devonshire’s exceptional copy of the 1532 Paris folio edition of Budé’s De asse et partibus eius, will be returning to England, selling to a British buyer at $9000.

Lot 110, the 1517 first edition of Fulvio’s Illustrium images, the first illustrated numismatic book, brought $8000 on a $5000 estimate.

Lot 114, a heavily annotated set of Gessner’s rare plates on the Familiarum Romanarum, sold for $1800 on a $500 estimate.

Lot 193, a lovely set of the French first edition of Mommsen’s classic Histoire de la monnaie romaine, brought $3000 on a $750 estimate.

Lot 195, Morell’s 1734 Thesaurus Morellianus, with the rare 1752 continuation, brought $4000 on a $1800 estimate.

Lot 206, a handsome copy of Fulvio Orsini’s 1577 Familiae Romanae, brought $4250 on a $1200 estimate.

Lot 229, a rare complete run of 23 Rodolfo Ratto fixed-price catalogues, brought $2750 on a $1000 estimate.

Lot 369, Duby’s extraordinary works on obsidional and French feudal coins, in Louis XVI bindings, brought $6500.

Lot 423, Bushnell’s legendary 1864-66 Crumbs for Antiquarians, including the second edition of his 1859 work on New York tokens, brought $4500.

Lot 428, an original manuscript record of Cogan’s 1859 Charles B. Foote sale, was the highlight of the sale, selling for $11,000 hammer on a $5000 estimate after very strong floor and internet bidding.

The sale and the prices realized can be observed at auction.numislit.com. A formal prices realized list will be prepared and added to the Kolbe & Fanning website at numislit.com this week. We thank all those who participated in the sale for making it such a special event.

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