Baldwin's have added several new additions to their web site offerings of numismatic literature. Here are a couple of them. -Editor
Svoronos On Crète
Svoronos, J.N. Numismatique de la Crète Ancienne accompagnee de l’Histoire, la Geographie et la Mythologie de l’Ile. Macon, 1890.
Complete in two parts. Quarto. (4), ix, (1), 358; 35 fine plates. Both parts handsomely bound in brown morocco and marbled boards. Spine
ruled, decorated and lettered direct in gilt. Contents a trifle browned as is usual but clean and otherwise bright. The plates in a similar
state and well preserved having been bound in on hinges. The last plate with a photograph of the obverse and reverse of a Hadrian bronze
neatly pasted in.
The standard reference for the series. Clean, bright and in a handsome contemporary binding. A very fine copy. Seldom offered.
Clain-Stefanelli 2581*; Daehn 4437; Kroh 50 (four stars), ‘This study, as opposed to the BMC, attempts to be a corpus of all known types
and is still utilized as such by most researchers… Very rare.’
For more information, or to order, see:
A Beautiful Copy Of Svoronos On Crète
(www.baldwin.co.uk/a-beautiful-copy-of-svoronos-on-crete.html)
The Kress Collection Of Renaissance Bronzes And Medals
Hill, G. &Pollard, G. &Pope-Hennessey, J. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes,
Utensils and Mortars. With; Renaissance Medals from the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the National Gallery of Art based on the Catalogue of
Renaissance Medals in the Gustave Dreyfus Collection. London, 1965 &1967. 4to. viii, 333, (3), 616 illustrations; x, 309, (1); 136
plates. Both volumes casebound in the original blue cloth. Minimal wear.
Important references. Clain-Stefanelli 14289*
For more information, or to order, see:
Both Volumes Of The
Famous Kress Collection Of Renaissance Bronzes And Medals
(www.baldwin.co.uk/both-volumes-of-the-famous-kress-collection-of-renaissance-bronzes-and-medals.html)
To read the complete article, see:
www.baldwin.co.uk/catalog/category/view/id/321
Wayne Homren, Editor
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