NEWMAN PORTAL DIGITIZES REMY BOURNE PUBLICATIONS

Remy Bourne, a numismatic literature dealer active through the early 2000s, has graciously allowed the Newman Portal to digitize his entire catalog of publications. This collection includes 16 auction sale catalogs, a house organ, a short series of fixed price lists, and nine volumes surveying American numismatic periodicals, prices paid for lists, and other dealer-related promotional literature. This material is now available on the Newman Portal, with the exception of volumes 1 and 2 of the surveys. Can an E-Sylum reader loan these for scanning?

The Bourne survey volumes serve as a bibliography for some of the more obscure items in American numismatic literature – fixed price lists of little-known 19th century coin sellers, dealer newsletters containing the odd biographical tidbit found nowhere else, and the like. The publication of these references was a gift to the numismatic community that established a starting point for further research in this area.

Bourne’s house organ, the Numismatic Literature Review, featured articles by Bowers, Orosz, and others, in addition to offering a selection of literature at fixed prices. A separate series of fixed price lists, under the imprint of Remy’s children Michael and Marlene, was issued to the extent of three issues in the early 1980s. This pair also produced two auction catalogs under the same trade name. Finally, Remy Bourne produced a series of 16 auction catalogs from 1995 to 2002 featuring a variety of numismatic literature.

Link to Remy Bourne auction catalogs:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/auctioncompanydetail/510371

Link to Remy Bourne surveys:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/books?Tag=NUMISMATIC%20LITERATURE

Link to Remy Bourne house organ:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/publisherdetail/512806

Link to Michael &Marlene Bourne fixed price lists:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/publisherdetail/512755

Link to Michael &Marlene Bourne auction catalogs:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/auctioncompanydetail/510370

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