FANNING NUMISMATIC LITERATURE FALL 2008 AUCTION SALE ANNOUNCED

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The E-Sylum: Volume 11, Number 20, May 18, 2008, Article 4

FANNING NUMISMATIC LITERATURE FALL 2008 AUCTION SALE ANNOUNCED

David Fanning forwarded this press release on his firm's first numismatic literature auction sale, to be held this fall. Congratulations! The numismatic literature field is heating up with a number of old and new players issuing price lists and running auctions. It's a great time to be collecting.

David F. Fanning Numismatic Literature has announced that the firm will be conducting its first auction this fall. The sale will include a wide variety of material on ancient, medieval, foreign and U.S. numismatics, and will feature a number of rare and important works. Selected highlights include:

A charming copy of Patin’s 1683 Introductio ad historiam numismatum
Godonnesche on the medals of Louis XV (1736)
Erasmus Froelich’s 1737 Quatuor tentamina
Mechel on Hedlinger’s medals (1776-1778)
18th-century American almanacs, newspapers and mercantile publications discussing coinage
The 1798 first American edition of Kyd on bills of exchange
Simon (1810) and Lindsey (1839) on Irish coins
Important European catalogues including the Jeronimo Vries catalogues of the 1847 Van Gelder sale
a bound volume of very early J. Schulman sales
Hess’s 1891-1892 Reimmann sale
several Ars Classica sales
Several 19th-century U.S. works on counterfeit detection
Winslow Howard’s heavily annotated copy of the 1855 Kline sale
A large paper copy of Hickcox on the paper money of New York
Copy number 1 of Hough on Washingtonia, published by Woodward
An original Crosby in a Nova Constellatio binding
A fine leather-bound set of Loubat
A number of 19th-century American auction sales with photographic plates, including a plated copy of the 1886 Maris sale
The second edition of De Knight on U.S. currency
A plated copy of Elder’s 1908 Gschwend sale
A plated copy of the Malcolm N. Jackson sale (US Coin Co., 1913)

While the exact date of the sale has not been set, it is expected to take place this fall. A printed catalogue will be issued and copies will be sent to established customers and to those requesting a copy. Select consignments are being accepted for this or future mail bid sales or fixed price catalogues.

For more information, please contact David Fanning at dfanning@columbus.rr.com or see the company’s Web site at www.fanningbooks.com.

Wayne Homren, Editor

The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org.

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