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The E-Sylum: Volume 21, Number 44, November 4, 2018, Article 28

MORE NEWMAN SALE XI VOLUME 2 LITERATURE HIGHLIGHTS

Here are some more highlights from the upcoming two-volume Heritage sale XI of the Eric P. Newman collection. This is literally a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to acquire great numismatic literature rarities that have been off the market for decades. -Editor

Newman XI
Newman Library

NewmanXIha1283vol2_0000 This week's one and only Newman Library sale promises to be an electrifying event, and online access is even easier than before. From the DEPARTMENTS menu, select Books & Historical Manuscripts, and choose All Books & Historical Manuscripts. The Newman XI Library Sale information will pop up instantly.

Many rarities are presented in this historic offering of Eric P. Newman's books, archives, and plated auction catalogs. Collectors are encouraged to view the archives in particular, with the Virgil Brand, Roger Cohen, Burdette G. Johnson and Bernard Edison (R. Tettenhorst) papers as well as correspondence files between Eric P. Newman and ANACS, the Assay Commission, Douglas B. Ball, Harry W. Bass, F.C.C. Boyd, and more. Not to be missed is the archival material relating to the "Colonel" Green Collection: The Deal of the Century.

Thomas Anburey Travels This week's article is focused on books, and we would like to point out lot 15152, Thomas Anburey's Travels through the Interior Parts of America. This complete, two-volume 1789 work contains plates depicting both sides of Continental Currency notes: a July 22, 1776 $3; a Nov. 2, 1776 $6; a 14th January, 1779 $50; and a 14th January, 1779 $65.

To read the complete lot description, see:
https://coins.ha.com/itm/books/-anburey-thomas-travels-through-the-interior-parts-of-america-in-a-series-of-letters-by-an-officer/a/1283-15152.s

Eric's complete collection of Heath's Counterfeit Detectors comprises a major offering in this sale, and they are introduced by a reprint of Eric's fascinating 1991 article, "Heath's Counterfeit Detectors: An Extraordinarily Successful Comedy of Errors."

Heath Ordway Presentation Edition Hutchings California Magazine v1n4

Lot 15286, the 1870 third edition Banking House & Counting Room Edition shows an impression of a counterfeit $10 National Bank of Philadelphia note. ha.com/1283-11169. The beautiful full morocco presentation edition prepared for Col. Nehemiah G. Ordway is offered as lot 15298.

To read the complete lot description, see:
https://coins.ha.com/itm/books/heath-laban-heath-s-greatly-improved-and-enlarged-infallible-government-counterfeit-detector-at-sight/a/1283-15298.s

Another rarity, Hutchings' California Magazine, vol. 1, No. 4, contains a fascinating early illustrated account of the San Francisco Mint. Offered as lot 15320, it covers nearly the entire minting process starting from a bag of gold being placed on the Treasurer's counter.

To read the complete lot description, see:
https://coins.ha.com/itm/books/hutchings-and-co-jm-publisher-hutchings-california-magazine/a/1283-15320.s

Lee Currency of the Confederate States of America Lee Currency of the Confederate States of America plate

From 1875, William Lee's rare, photographically illustrated book, The Currency of the Confederate States of America, is the foundational work on Confederate paper money. It is also the first book to describe and photograph the Confederate cent. With half of the only 10 known today held by institutions, this offering of lot 15330 is a rare opportunity.

One of the greatest rarities of American numismatic literature. I looked for years and never found one I could afford for my library. A great opportunity. -Editor

To read the complete lot description, see:
https://coins.ha.com/itm/books/lee-wm-the-currency-of-the-confederate-states-of-america/a/1283-15330.s

Ormsby cover Ormsby plate 1

Ormsby plate 2

Ormsby's Magnificent 1852 work on American bank note engraving, lot 15368, is exceptionally well illustrated and is the most desirable volume ever published on the subject. Ormsby was the proprietor of the New York Bank Note Company and one of the founders of the Continental Bank Note Company, and his insights into the topics covered are unparallelled.

The Ormsby isn't quite as rare, but it's still a prize for any American numismatic library. -Editor

To read the complete lot description, see:
https://coins.ha.com/itm/books/ormsby-wl-a-description-of-the-present-system-of-bank-note-engraving-showing-its-tendency-to-facili/a/1283-15368.s

Vicksburg sale plate Lot 15407, Woodward's rare Vicksburg Sale catalog contains 12 photographic plates, the last of which is gold-tinted. The section on American Colonial coins is neatly hand-priced in red ink.

To read the complete lot description, see:
https://coins.ha.com/itm/books/woodward-w-elliot-assisted-by-ed-frossard-catalogue-of-a-collection-of-coins-and-medals-selected-from-a-large-cabinet/a/1283-15407.s

As in the previous auctions, items being sold are from the extensive collection of the Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society (a Missouri not-for-profit corporation), and have been assembled over a period of 90 years. Proceeds of the sale of all items will be used exclusively for supplementing the Society's scholarly research efforts and for the benefit of other not-for-profit institutions selected by the Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society for public purposes.

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
NEWMAN SALE XI VOLUME 2 LITERATURE HIGHLIGHTS (http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/esylum_v21n43a18.html)

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Wayne Homren, Editor

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