Hot on the heels of their great P. Scott Rubin library sale, here's the announcement for another super Kolbe & Fanning sale later this month. Great material!!
-Editor
Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers are announcing our Sale 158, which will be held on Saturday, November 21, 2020. The 467-lot sale features material from the TAB Library of works on ancient coins, the extensive working library of Eldert Bontekoe, and other properties. Most heavily focused on books and catalogues relating to ancient coins, the sale also features a substantial section on world coins and a smaller, but choice, selection of items of American interest.
Some highlights of the sale include:
Lots 19 and 27
Lot 19: Joel Malter's well-preserved set of Jacques de Morgan's two-volume work on ancient Persian coins, the conclusion of the Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines
Lot 27: Pierre Bastien's extraordinary three-volume study of Roman numismatic portraiture, Le buste monétaire des empereurs romains
Lots 29 and 216
Lot 29: a bound provenance record of the magnificent L. Biaggi Blasys collection of Roman gold coins and medallions
Lot 216: Edward T. Newell's set of SNG Lloyd, complete in eight parts and bound in one volume
Lot 44
Lot 44: a 1542 folio edition of the first numismatic book, Guillaume Budé's De asse et partibus eius, elegantly printed in Paris by Michel de Vascosan
Lots 141 and 388
Lot 141: a fine set of Giuseppe Mazzini's Monete imperiali romane, illustrating over 8000 coins from one of the finest collections ever formed
Lot 388: the landmark 1819 work on preventing the forgery of bank notes, published by the Society of Arts and including a number of exceptional engravings
Lots 399 and 410
Lot 399: Dr. Bassoli's set of Zanetti's monumental study of Italian coinage, Nuova raccolta delle monete e zecce d'Italia (1775-1789)
Lot 410: a well-preserved copy of Henry Chapman's 1914 catalogue of the George Parsons collection of American and Canadian coins and medals, illustrated with 13 very fine photographic plates
Lot 414
Lot 414: an original subscription set of Sylvester S. Crosby's Early Coins of America, the most important American numismatic book ever published, unbound and still in the original printed paper covers.
Register early to bid online
Bids may be placed via post, email, fax or phone, as well as online. Kolbe & Fanning is using Auction Mobility as our third-party online bidding platform. Auction Mobility is an app-based platform allowing users the ability to participate in the sale through phones, tablets and computers. To register for the sale, bidders must go to
bid.numislit.com
and sign up. Once you have set up an account, you may browse lots, place advance bids, or participate in the live sale online. Those wishing to participate on their devices can download the new Kolbe & Fanning app through the Apple or Google Play Store.
Bids placed via post, email, fax or phone must be received by Friday, Nov. 20, the day before the sale, in order for them to be processed. Advance absentee bids may also be placed at any time online at
bid.numislit.com; live internet bidding will be available during the sale itself through the same platform.
Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers LLC is a licensed and bonded auction firm in the State of Ohio. For more information, please see the Kolbe & Fanning website at
bid.numislit.com or email David Fanning at
df@numislit.com.
Wayne Homren, Editor
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