K&F BCD LIBRARY SALE, PART 2 HIGHLIGHTS

Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers will be holding the second sale of material from the BCD Library on Saturday, November 2, beginning at 12:00 noon Eastern Time. The most extraordinary private collection of material on the coinage of antiquity that we have ever handled, the BCD Library features classic references, modern die studies of individual cities, descriptive catalogues of important collections, and much else. The online catalogue can be accessed at bid.numislit.com.

Some highlights of this first sale include:

   

 
Lots 58 and 70

Lot 58: Wolfram Hoepfner's extensive archaeological survey of the Pompeion, with the coins found at the site among the artifacts examined

Lot 70: the rare final edition of Charles Patin's excellent introduction to numismatics, a 1771 Spanish translation in a contemporary binding

 
Lots 156 and 173

Lot 156: the first edition (1735) of Hanthaler's Exercitationes faciles de numis veterum pro tyronibus, in a full calf period binding

Lot 173: Francesco Antonio Zaccaria's 1772 Istituzione antiquario-numismatica, the first edition of his fundamental work on coins and collecting

 
Lots 176 and 192

Lot 176: the massive catalogue produced by the Burlington Fine Arts Club for their 1904 Exhibition of Ancient Greek Art, in an Arts & Crafts style binding

Lot 192: the rare first volume, focusing on ancient coins, of Johann Heinrich Burckhard's catalogue of his own collection, Numophylacium Burckhardianum

 
Lot 228

Lot 228: over 200 original color photographs illustrating coins from the notable Collection P., focusing on the coinage of Thessaly

 
Lots 244 and 391

Lot 244: the first edition (1794) of Domenico Sestini's volume studying the Van Damme and Schellersheim collections, in a contemporary binding

Lot 391: The Copper Coinage of Thessaly, by Edgar Rogers (1932), a classic work cataloguing some 577 copper coins, including ones issued under the Romans

 
Lot 402

Lot 402: Nikolaos Petsalis's rare 1935 study of Euboean coins, in a charming BCD binding executed by Dionysis Valassis.

To read the earlier articles, see:
KOLBE & FANNING BCD LIBRARY SALE, PART 2 (https://www.coinbooks.org/v27/esylum_v27n40a02.html)
K&F BCD LIBRARY SALE, PART 2 HIGHLIGHTS (https://www.coinbooks.org/v27/esylum_v27n41a04.html)

Register early to bid online
Bids may be placed via post, email, phone, as well as online. Kolbe & Fanning use 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 Kolbe & Fanning app through the Apple or Google Play Store. The sale has also been listed on Biddr, NumisBids, and Numis24.

The printed catalogue has been mailed to all active customers on our mailing list. As international mail speeds have been inconsistent, we encourage our foreign clients to consult the electronic catalogue in case their printed catalogue does not arrive promptly. A PDF of the printed catalogue has been posted to our main website at numislit.com for those who prefer that format. Bids placed via post, email, or phone must be received by November 1, 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. Internet bidding will be available during the sale itself through the same platform.

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