Search Results: Authors starting with M from Kolbe & Fanning

New York, 1977. 4to, original printed card covers. 160 pages; illustrated; 4 color plates. Near fine.

1969. Two volumes. 8vo, original matching brown cloth, gilt. (12), xxx, 801 (1) + (8), 477 (1) pages, followed by Index of perhaps 200 pages. Fine. A useful reprint of the best edition of this important work. Scarce.

Augusta: Stevens & Blaine, 1855. 8vo, original printed green paper covers. 54, (2) pages. Folded; minor spotting. Very good. Ex John J. Ford, Jr. Library.

London: Spink, 2023. 4to, original green cloth, gilt; jacket. (2), xvii, (1), 293, (1) pages; 88 plates. New. The first part published of the major revision of Volume V of the Roman Imperial Coinage series, this part focuses on the intriguing and complicated coinage of the so-called Gallic Empire.

London: British Museum, 2022. Two volumes. 4to, original matching red cloth lettered in white. xxiii, (1), 746, (2) pages; 252 plates. Housed in black slipcase. Fine. Covers the Roman Provincial issues of Gordian I, Gordian II, Pupienus, Balbinus, and Gordian III (excluding Asia, covered by VII.1). Over 25,000 coins are included, with more than 3,750 type descriptions.

Venezia. Two catalogues: Serie III, Num. 25 (1 Gennaio 1913) and Serie IV, Num. 31 (1 Luglio 1914). 8vo, original printed wraps. 83, (1) + 101, (1) pages; 3125 + 3717 listings. Very good or better. Rare fixed-price catalogues of Roman and Italian coins.

Padova: Esedra Editrice, 2005. 4to, original printed card covers. 141, (1) pages; illustrated. Fine. A collection of essays dedicated to antiquarian, numismatic and artistic collecting in 16th and 17th century Padua and Venice.

London: Trustees of the Wallace Collection, 1962. 8vo, original matching printed card covers. Color frontispiece, liii, 714 total pages; 208 total plates. Near fine. [with] EUROPEAN ARMS AND ARMOUR. SUPPLEMENT. London: Trustees of the Wallace Collection, 1986. 8vo, original printed card covers. vii, (1), 304 pages; 236 plates. Near fine. Wallace Collection Catalogues.

(London), 1993. Tall 4to, original reddish brown half morocco; spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt. xviii, (2), 449, (1) pages; facsimile illustrations. Fine. Special Leatherbound Library Edition. One of only 30 copies issued, signed by the authors. Landmark bibliographic reference works, indispensable to serious numismatists of all stripes.

Gahanna: Kolbe & Fanning, 2015. Folio (13 by 10 inches), original terra cotta cloth; gilt; jacket. 232 pages; illustrated in color. New. Benjamin Franklin in Terra Cotta discusses the numerous varieties of Nini medallions, methods of distinguishing originals from aftercasts, and the artistic context within which these pieces were created. Each medal is presented in actual size in exquisite detail. Thoroughly documented and useful to both the novice as well as the expert, this handsome, large-format volume is finely illustrated throughout in full color.

N.p.: Colonial Coin Collectors Club, 2007. 4to, original dark blue half calf, decorated in blind and with marbled sides; spine with five raised bands, ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt; red morocco spine label, gilt. xx, 492 pages; illustrated. Fine. A special binding executed by Alan Grace using an unbound copy of the final printed book provided by the printer, Sheridan Books.

Colonial Coin Collectors Club, 2011. 4to, original black leatherette, gilt; jacket. xxiv, 504 pages; numerous coin enlargements and other illustrations. New. The standard reference.

Colonial Coin Collectors Club, 2007. 4to, original black leatherette, gilt; jacket. xx, 492 pages; numerous coin enlargements and other illustrations. Fine. An outstanding work, now the standard reference.

Colonial Coin Collectors Club, 2018. 4to, original black leatherette, gilt; jacket. xxii, 506 pages; illustrated in color. New. The long-awaited work on these poorly understood coins, and the new standard reference.

Boston, 1880. Crown 4to, original printed wraps. 145-329, (1) pages; text illustration; 5 lithographic plates, numbered XIII-XVII, depicting medals; 1 fine chromolithograph depicting the Arms of the Freemasons, laid in (presumably as issued). Front printed wrap detached and stained, but present; rear lacking. First text page stained. Spine separating into signatures. Good or better. [with] (Marvin, W.T.R.). MASONIC MEDALS. SUPPLEMENT. No place of publication [prob. Boston], undated [c. 1912]. Crown 4to, unsewn, unbound signatures. Drop title; 5-252 pages [lacking 253-(257) and following blanks]; 1 halftone plate. Very good. Housed together in new custom-made clamshell box (blue and tan linen with black leather spine labels, gilt). A very rare and bibliographically complex book, still important as a foundational reference in this area. Though 160 copies were printed of the main work, copies rarely appear on the market, perhaps because most appear to have been distributed through Masonic channels.… Read More

No place of publication [prob. Boston], 1912. Crown 4to, unsewn, unbound signatures. Drop title; 5-252 pages [lacking 253-(258)]; 1 halftone plate. Generally near fine. [with] Marvin, W.T.R. THE ARMS OF THE FREEMASONS AND THE SEAL OF THE GRAND LODGE OF MASSACHUSETTS. Privately printed, 1880. 8vo, self-covered. 24 pages. Fine. A very rare supplement to an already very rare book, Marvinís Supplement is perplexing in that almost all of the few copies known appear to be incomplete, as is this one (though this one is better than most, lacking only the final pages and any preliminary leavesóif indeed any were published). Based on Marvinís ongoing work on the subject, published in the American Journal of Numismatics between 1888 and 1910. As with the main work, most of the copies of the Supplement have likely been in Masonic libraries since publication, with few to be found in numismatic channels. The Supplement was lacking from both the Champa and Bass library sales, and the example in the American… Read More

Wenham, 1998. Reprint. Two octavo volumes and one quarto; all three volumes bound in russet cloth, gilt. Fine. The Charles Davis reprints of the entirety of Ebenezer Mason's rare and highly readable periodicals, issued over a 25-year period that saw the numismatic hobby mature from the rapid growth of the 1860s to the established industry of the 1890s. Among the most interesting and provocative 19th-century American numismatic house organs. Reprint limited to 215 copies. Kolbe 818 and 819.

Atlanta: Whitman, 2016. Foreword by Larry Adams. 4to, original pictorial boards. 480 pages; illustrated in color throughout. New. From the publisher: Counterfeiting and Technology presents the history of paper money in a way thatís never been seen before. It combines chemistry and artistry, inventions and escapades, tales of arrest and daring escapes. Collectors and historians of American money will love this engaging and informative narrative about our nationís paper currency.

New York: ANS, 2020. Tall 4to, original black boards lettered in silver; jacket. xiii, (1), 268, (6) pages; illustrated, partly in color. New. A thorough and up-to-date study of these fascinating issues, originally used as counters in the medieval period, but serving a variety of social functions in the eighteenth century and beyond. American Numismatic Society, Numismatic Studies Volume 41.

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1935. 4to, original green cloth, gilt. xiv, 248, (2), ix pages; 6 plates. Spotting to cover and page edges. Very good. University of Michigan Studies, Humanistic Series, Volume XXXVII. An important catalogue of Seleucid, Parthian and other coins found in the late 1920s and early 1930s on the site of Seleucia on the Tigris. Scarce. Clain-Stefanelli 3011.