Search Results: Titles starting with C from Kolbe & Fanning

N.p.: Bowers & Merena and Stackís, 2000. 8vo, original pictorial boards. 448 pages; illustrated. Fine. Inscribed to John J. Ford from the publishers on flyleaf. A well-regarded work, with an introduction by Q. David Bowers.

New York: ANS, 1994. 8vo, original blue cloth printed in silver. xii, 159, (5) pages; illustrated. Fine. The proceedings of the eighth Coinage of the Americas Conference.

Montreal: Antiquarian and Numismatic Society of Montreal, 1910. Complete in four issues. 8vo, original printed card covers. Title page printed in red and black. Near fine. Most important for R.W. McLachlan's "Canadian Card Money.

Barrie: CNA, 2000. 8vo, original blue leatherette, gilt. ix, (1), 148 pages; illustrated. Signed by author on front flyleaf. Fine.

Montreal: Antiquarian and Numismatic Society of Montreal, 1932. Complete, four issues in one volume. 8vo, original printed card covers. 168 pages; 5 plates. Near fine. Includes important articles on the Chateau Remezay collection by Morin, Renaud and Fox.

Montreal: Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Montreal, 1908. Complete in four issues. 8vo, original printed card covers. Frontispiece portrait of "La Corne St-Luc." Covers printed in red and black. Near fine. The 1908 volume of this rare and desirable journal. Includes several articles by R.W. McLachlan. Clain-Stefanelli 447.

Montreal: Antiquarian and Numismatic Society of Montreal, 1930. Complete, as issued in one volume. 8vo, original printed card covers. 140 pages; 4 plates. Near fine. Includes Victor Morin's "Le premier billet de banque imprimè au Canada et les bons de George King.

Montreal: Antiquarian and Numismatic Society of Montreal, 1899. Complete, four issues in three volumes. 8vo, original printed card covers. 188 pages. Near fine. Most important for "Medals Awarded to Canadian Indians.

Montreal: Antiquarian and Numismatic Society of Montreal, 1901. Complete, four issues in one volume. 8vo, original printed card covers. 190 pages. Near fine. Includes R.W. McLachlan's "Two Canadian Golden Wedding Medals.

Chicago, 1908. 4to, self-covered. (4) pages. Near fine. A bit of a mystery. Famed collector William Forrester Dunham published checklists and "Quick Finding Lists" for Hard Times Tokens, colonial and territorial coins, and Encased Postage Stamps, and published in 1908 a 48-page compendium of such lists in Los Angeles. This 4-page list reproduced the Canadian portion of that 48-page publication, but bears a Chicago imprint under the name of Dunham's son Chester (1891-1959).

Montreal: Wm. Drysdale & Co, 1886. 12mo, original russet cloth, gilt. 118, (2) pages. Front joint cracked; institutional stamp on title. Very good. Quite rare. As the author states in his preface, ìThe present Essay ... attempts to place in an accessible form much information scattered over many volumes, journals and MSS. Moreover, it brings to public notice the creation of the important public department of Archives, with some account of its establishment: a department by which the study of Canadian History must be greatly advanced.î Kingsford is best known to modern numismatists for his important 1874 work on the Vexator tokens, A Canadian Political Coin. While the present work is not numismatic in focus, it provides much interesting context for numismatic study.

Montreal: Antiquarian and Numismatic Society of Montreal, 1910. Published in Antiquarian and Numismatic Society of Montreal. THE CANADIAN ANTIQUARIAN AND NUMISMATIC JOURNAL. THIRD SERIES, VOL. VII, NO. 4. (1910) 8vo, original printed card covers. Title page printed in red and black. Near fine. Includes McLachlan's important article on the earliest paper money of Canada. CNB, page 56: "a documented account of card money in Canada, that addresses rival claims to such an innovation, and amends Ernest Zay's story of this unusual currency. McLachlan not only adds precision to the history of card money, he has also examined post-mortem, estate inventories in the notarial archives, which list card money among the assets. Other scholars did not pursue this fruitful line of enquiry for another sixty-five years. McLachlan details Canada's role in introducing a new medium of exchange (altered playing-cards used as paper currency during the French Regime) with a superior power for economic expansion, thereby… Read More

Montreal: Antiquarian and Numismatic Society of Montreal, 1902. Complete, four issues in two volumes. 8vo, original printed card covers. Covers printed in red and black. Near fine. Includes R.W. McLachlan's "The Canadian Wellington Tokens" and "Medals Commemorative of the Royal Visit to Canada in 1901.

Fourth Series, Volume II (1931), complete as issued in one volume. 8vo, original printed card covers. Fine. Includes Victor Morin's "Les médailles de traités indiens." The four volumes of the Fourth Series were issued as annual volumes. Clain-Stefanelli 447.

Montreal: Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Montreal, 1909. Complete in four issues. 8vo, original printed card covers. Covers printed in red and black. Near fine. The 1909 volume of this rare and desirable journal. Includes a piece by R.W. McLachlan on the Louisbourg medal and much else. Clain-Stefanelli 447.

Montreal: Antiquarian and Numismatic Society of Montreal, 1916. Complete, four issues in one volume. 8vo, original printed card covers. 70 pages. Near fine. Includes R.W. McLachlan's "Medals Commemorating the Tercentenary of the Founding of Quebec.

Montreal. Reprinted from The Gazette, 1886. 16mo [17 by 11 cm], original printed gray paper covers. 16 pages. Fine. The first work on the topic. Often attributed to McLachlan himself, who undoubtedly had something to do with it. Beginning with Henry Christmas's 1862 Numismatic Chronicle article, discusses Sandham, Kingsford, Leroux, Neumann, Zay and much else. Scarce. Bowman 13. CNB page 46.

Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 2004. 4to, original printed card covers. (4), iv, 101, (3) pages including text illustrations and 7 plates mostly of coins. Fine. BAR British Series 378.

Castle Cary, 1981. 4to, blue cloth, gilt. 357, (1) pages; text figures; 64 plates. Fine. Clain-Stefanelli 13732*. Grierson 251: "Étude la plus complète, admirablement illustrée." An excellent quality reprint of this still indispensable work on counters and jetons.

B&B reprint of the June 20, 1913 original. 8vo, original gilt-printed paper covers. (2), (4), 45, (1) pages; 732 lots; 9 halftone reprint plates. Covers a bit discolored; else fine. The B&B reprint of this notable sale, taken from a hand-priced copy. A truly memorable Chapman sale of United States large cents and other pieces. Adams 11. Clain-Stefanelli 12420. Davis 221.