Search Results: Titles starting with O from Kolbe & Fanning

Varna: Corpus Nummorum Odessitanorum, 2020. 4to, original pictorial card covers. 145, (3) pages; illustrated. Bilingual (English and Bulgarian). New. A specialized work on the coins of the Black Sea town of Odessos (modern Varna) during the period of Gordian III.

Varna: Corpus Nummorum Odessitanorum, 2022. 4to, original pictorial card covers. 377, (3) pages; illustrated. Bilingual (mostly in English with some Bulgarian). New. A specialized work on the coins of the Black Sea town of Odessos (modern Varna) during the period of Gordian III featuring the Thracian god Derzelas.

Boston, 8211. 8vo, later blue cloth, gilt. original printed card covers bound in. 176, (12) pages; 2763 lots; text illustrations. Priced realized list. Some pencil markings, very good. The hardcover edition of a notable ANA sale.

Pelham: Whitman, 2019. 7th Edition. 8vo, original pictorial boards; hidden spiral bound. 375, (9) pages; illustrated in color. New. Narrivite text by Q. David Bowers.

Six pieces, bound in one volume, as follows: "John Rutlinger and the Phoenix Badge of Queen Elizabeth" (inscribed by the author, 1923), "Nicholas Hilliard, ‘Embosser of Medals of Gold'" (1908), "A Note on William Holle, Cuneator of the Mint" (1908), "Nicholas Briot and the Civil War" (inscribed by the author, 1914), "Thomas Simon, ‘One of Our Chief Gravers'" (inscribed by the author, 1932), and "New Light on Thomas Simon" (inscribed and signed by the author to Charles Anthony, 1936). 8vo, contemporary full black morocco, bordered in blind; spine ruled and lettered in gilt; original printed card covers bound in where issued. 10 plates, mostly fine plates depicting coins or medals; folding table. Binding a little rubbed; near fine. A handsomely bound collection of offprints and extracts by Helen Farquhar on various aspects of coin and medal engraving in 16th- and 17th-century England. Ex Charles Anthony Library, with his armorial bookplate; ex Richard Margolis Library, acquired from John Drury in 1974.

Dublin: Printed for Private Distribution Only at the University Press by M.H. Gill, 1861. First edition. 8vo, original brown blindstamped cloth; spine lettered in gilt. 76 pages; large folding genealogical chart of the Earls of Desmond. Binding with minor scuffs and discolorations, but sound. Small tear to large folding chart. Very good or better. The first edition of a very scarce antiquarian work by this well-known Irish numismatist, privately printed in small numbers for distribution to the friends of the author. Inscribed and signed by the author, with authorial corrections to the text in ink. Sainthill (1787-1869) was a lawyer in Cork, Ireland, and was a close friend of numismatists Aquilla Smith and John Lindsay. Not numismatic, it focuses on the life of Katherine FitzGerald, Countess of Desmond, who became famous for her longevity. Now thought to have lived from about 1504 to 1604, she was thought by some to have been as much as 140 years old when she died. She lived in Inchiquin Castle, to… Read More

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.

Beograd, 1994. 8vo, original pictorial card covers. 148 pages; text illustrations; 4 plates of jewelry; 16 plates of Roman Imperial coins. Bilingual. Fine. One of only 500 copies issued. Out of print.

Washington, D.C., 1969. 8vo, original printed card covers. (2), 50 pages; 1409 lots. Original prices realized list laid in. Fine. A significant sale of this material, from an era when few were collecting early American paper money. Highlights included New Hampshire 7 shillings notes of Dec. 25, 1734, and Nov. 1, 1709 New York notes of 25 and 50 shillings. A scarce catalogue (especially with the PRL). The firmís principals were B.M. Douglas and Thomas P. Warfield.

Long Beach, 1992. Small 4to, original gilt-printed card covers with gilt-lettered marbled paper title labels affixed to front covers. 111, (1) pages; 222 lots; prices realized list laid in. Fine. A highly important sale featuring all of the classic works on early U.S. coppers, generally in unimpeachable condition. Kolbe notes in his introduction that he had never before offered so few lots in a single sale, and the fact that he spent 111 pages describing 222 lots gives some indication of the quality of the sale's contents.

Long Beach, California, 1992. Small 4to, full black levant morocco, stamped in gilt; gilt-printed title label on marbled background mounted to front cover as issued; original card covers bound in at rear. 111, (1) pages; 222 lots; prices realized list bound in. Fine. The leatherbound edition of a highly important sale featuring all of the classic works on early U.S. coppers, generally in unimpeachable condition. Kolbe notes in his introduction that he had never before offered so few lots in a single sale, and the fact that he spent 111 pages describing 222 lots gives some indication of the quality of the saleís contents.

Long Beach, 1992. Small 4to, original black cloth, gilt; original printed card covers bound in at rear. 111, (1) pages; 222 lots; prices realized list bound in. Fine. The regular hardcover edition of a highly important sale featuring all of the classic works on early U.S. coppers, generally in unimpeachable condition. Kolbe notes in his introduction that he had never before offered so few lots in a single sale, and the fact that he spent 111 pages describing 222 lots gives some indication of the quality of the sale's contents. In addition to this regular hardcover edition of Kolbe's 52nd sale, a full morocco edition was also issued.