The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 53, December 18, 2005, Article 2

ANS NUMISMATIC LITERATURE FUNDRAISING AUCTION

>From the press release: "On January 12th, 2006, a Rare
Numismatic Book Auction will be held in New York City at
the Waldorf-Astoria for the benefit of the American
Numismatic Society Library Chair Endowment. The Auction
will be held in the 4th floor Louis XVI Suite, with
cocktails and lot viewing beginning at 4:30, and the sale
from 5:00 to 6:00. In addition, all lots will be available
for viewing at the Triton Sale viewing.  All absentee bids
must be sent to the American Numismatic Society, care of
Librarian Francis D. Campbell.

Sixty highly desirable lots are featured in the sale,
estimated at nearly $50,000. Some sale highlights include:
a personal tour of Library treasures by A. N. S. Librarian
Frank Campbell; a complete original set of Sylloge Nummorum
Graecorum Sammlung von Aulock; a very fine example of the
Chapman brothers' landmark 1882 auction of the collection
of Charles Bushnell, handsomely, bound, with all 12 fine
phototype plates; Sylvester Sage Crosby's 1869 American
Numismatic Society membership and 1876 honorary member
medals, the latter in silver; many key works on ancient
Greek and Roman coins; a fine, plated copy of Henry Chapman's
1916 sale of Clarence Bement's colonial and United States
coins, as well as the Ars Classica catalogues of his Ancient
coins (addenda to sale); a suberb example of the deluxe
leatherbound edition, photographically-illustrated, of B.
Max Mehl's legendary 1941 W. F. Dunham sale; several works
by Julius Meili including his rare book on Brazilian paper
money; and W. Elliot Woodward's 1869 American Numismatic
Society bronze membership medal.

Perhaps the most intriguing item is lot 49: David Sear's
original, handwritten manuscript for his Greek Imperial
Coinage.  This comprises over 900 annotated pages in David's
beautiful script.  And, in the age of word processing, it
may represent a unique opportunity to obtain an original
manuscript of an important numismatic work.

A copy of the catalogue is being sent to all those on
George Kolbe's regular mailing list. In addition, the
catalogue and addenda list may be viewed at the A. N. S.
website: www.numismatics.org or at George Kolbe's website:
www.numislit.com.  Please remember that ALL BIDS MUST BE
SENT TO THE AMERICAN NUMISMATIC SOCIETY."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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