Search Results: Titles starting with R from Kolbe & Fanning

Belgrade, 1995. 8vo, original pictorial card covers. 308, (4) pages; maps; text illustrations; numerous plates depicting ancient and Islamic coins, jewelry and other silver objects. Bilingual. Fine.

New York: ANS, 1950. 16mo, original printed card covers. xi, (1), 138 pages; 10 fine plates. Near fine. Scarce and important. Numismatic Notes and Monographs No. 118.

Wolfeboro: Bowers & Merena, 1999. 4to, original pictorial boards. 490 pages; illustrated. Signed by author. Fine. A highly entertaining account of this extraordinary coin.

Descriptions by William Blades; introduction by Henry Morris. Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1996. 8vo, original brown cloth, gilt; accompanying tan card covered folder with medal reproductions; housed together in brown cloth slipcase. 32, (4) pages; title printed in russet and black; 4 gold-tinted medal illustrations; 17th-century trade card reproduced in red ink; other illustrations; four cast reproductions of 17th- and 18th-century printing trade medals as housed in folder, as issued. Slipcase a little frayed, else fine. Only 120 sets produced of this remarkable and beautifully printed work, rarely offered on the numismatic market. Henry Morris is one of the last of the great letterpress printers and is known to numismatists for several works including John Adams's work on George III Indian Peace Medals and the deluxe edition of his Comitia Americana book. The present work reprints parts of Blades's Numismata Typographica (1883) and presents new introductory material by Morris himself. The volume was… Read More

Beograd, 1933. 8vo, original printed paper covers. (4), 79, (1) pages; 3 plates of coins. Unopened. Oversized covers a little chipped. Near fine. Scarce. On Serbian coins up to King Milutin.

Zürich, 2012. Two volumes. 4to, original matching printed card covers. 260, (4) + 147, (5) pages; 1220 + 608 lots; illustrated in color. Near fine. A very important two-part sale of Roman Republican coins.

Zürich: NAC, 2013. 4to, original pictorial boards. 407, (31) pages; 1860 lots, all illustrated in color on facing pages. Estimate and price realized printed with each lot. New. The combined special edition, bringing together all three RBW collection sales, including the gold coins sold in 1999 by CNG in addition to the two NAC sales of 2011 and 2012. With every lot depicted in color and with all relevant information provided, this special edition belongs on the bookshelf of anyone interested in the Roman republican coinage. Historical notes by David Vagi; revised dating sequences by Roberto Russo.

London: Spink, 2023. 8vo, original pictorial boards. vii, (1), 233, (1) pages; illustrated in color. New. From the publisher: Contemporary sources in the third century AD damned them as criminals and pirates. This book aims to set the record straight and details the remarkable achievements of Carausius and Allectus, the rebel emperors of Britannia.

Paris, 1892. 8vo, original printed paper covers. 58, (2) pages; text illustrations. Unopened; fine. A collection of essays, mostly concentrating on ancient coins. Boutkowski (Butkowski, Butkovskii), 1826-1894, is perhaps best known today for his Petit Mionnet (1889).

Paris: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (Fondation Piot), 1925. Second Edition. 4to, later two-tone tan and ivory cloth, gilt; original matching printed wraps bound in. (4), iv, 210 plus bis pages; 28 + 15 fine plates of coins. Fine. An unusually nice copy of the best edition of this important work, first published in 1904. Very scarce. Only this first fascicule was published in a second edition. Clain-Stefanelli 2600*. Daehn 4529. Grierson 57.

New York, 1993. 4to; original pictorial blue boards. 136 pages, 1300 lots, portrait, text illustrations throughout, including 12 full-page illustrations of coins depicted in color. Fine. Special Hardbound Edition.

Frankfurt: Druck und Verlag von Paul Beholtz, 1906. Large 4to, later green cloth, gilt. vii, (1), 336 pages. Cover sunned, some foxing to flyleaf; near fine. The very scarce original edition. Coverage extends back to the medieval era. Clain-Stefanelli 338.

Gahanna: Kolbe & Fanning, 2022. 4to, red cloth; gilt; original pictorial covers bound in. 154 pages; 472 lots; profusely illustrated in color. PRL bound in. New.

London: Spink, Reprinted from the Numismatic Chronicle, 1908. 8vo, original green cloth, gilt. vi, (2), 260 pages; 5 fine plates of coins. Clippings from newspaper and book catalogue affixed to front flyleaf. Near fine. Rarely encountered, Webb's classic study was the most substantive work on the subject at the time of publication. Ex Arthur Dennis Passmore, with his antiquarian bookplate. Manville 678.

London, 1967. Second edition, revised and enlarged. 4to, original blue cloth, gilt; jacket. x, 307, (3) pages; heavily illustrated. Jacket worn, else fine. Very important.

Musée Royal de Mariemont, 2008. 4to, original printed card covers. 155, (3) pages; illustrated. Fine. Chalon is best known today for his role in the Fortsas hoax in 1840, which involved an obscure auction sale consisting exclusively of "unique" works unknown in the standard bibliographies, which had been dreamed up by Chalon to appeal to particular book collectors of the day—all of whom managed to learn about the sale and many of whom fell for it. His numismatic works focus mostly on medieval issues of the Low Counties, a subject on which he published hundreds of articles. His few book-length works are generally quite rare though still cited.

Toronto, 1976. Small 8vo, original pictorial card covers. (10), 110, (4) pages; 2550 lots; 36 halftone plates. Covers spotted, else near fine. One of the most important sales of early Canadian numismatic material to be held in modern times. Copies have always been difficult to obtain.

Toronto, 1976. Small 8vo, original pictorial card covers. (10), 110, (4) pages; 2550 lots; 36 halftone plates. Photocopy prices realized list included. Covers spotted, else near fine. One of the most important sales of early Canadian numismatic material to be held in modern times. Copies have always been difficult to obtain.

Berlin, 1885. 8vo, original brown cloth, gilt. xi, (1), 440 pages. Few markings; hinges reinforced; near fine.

London: Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceas'd; Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1695. Small 8vo [19 by 12 cm], later tan half calf with marbled sides; spine rebacked in modern matching calf with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt. 159, (1) pages; woodcut decorations; text table. Moderately trimmed; title page spotted; very good. An attractive copy of the first and only edition. Quite scarce. Lowndes's Report was a major contribution to the controversy surrounding the recoinage under William III, the principal protagonists being Lowndes, then Secretary to the Treasury, and John Locke. In this work, Lowndes reviews the expedients of former reigns, urges a recoinage, and suggests a change in the standard by raising the nominal value of all coins by 25%. Dekesel L135. Goldsmith 3131. Hirsch 78. Kress 1908. Lipsius 235. Manville 52 (quoting William Nicolson's English Historical Library as follows: "Mr. Lowndes has written in so peculiar &… Read More