Search Results: Authors starting with A from Kolbe & Fanning

Amsterdam: Chez François Changuion, 1741. Tome Quinzième. 12mo, original full brown speckled calf; spine with five raised bands, decorated in gilt; two red morocco spine labels, gilt, the lower erroneously labeled "TOM XX"; all page edges red; marbled endpapers; silk marker. Title printed in red and black with engraved printer's device signed B.P. (4), 624 pages; woodcut initials, tailpieces and other devices; 6 engraved folding plates depicting plans, assemblies and antiquities; one engraved text illustration depicting both sides of a Roman bronze coin of Gordian. Binding a trifle worn, but nearly fine and still very attractive. One folding plate with marginal wear from folding. Near fine. A scarce volume of the proceedings of the Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, including l'Abbé de Fontenu's "Dissertation sur une Médaille de Gordien-Pie, & sur l'Histoire de la Ville de Sinope, où cette Médaille a été frappée." The Academy was founded in 1663 by Jean-Baptiste Colbert.… Read More

Darien, Connecticut, 1976. 8.5 by 11 inch sheets, unbound as issued. (4) pages; 33 lots; 3 black and white photographic plates illustrating both sides of every coin. Occasional smudges, else fine. A rarely seen fixed price catalogue offering ancient Greek coins, illustrated with actual photographic plates.

Crestline: George Frederick Kolbe, 2001. Reprint. New. 8vo, original red cloth, gilt. 270 pages; frontispiece portrait of the author; 22 plates. Accompanied by "Additions and Corrections" booklet. New.

Crestline: George Frederick Kolbe, 1999. New. 8vo, original black quarter morocco, decorative paper sides, red morocco spine label, gilt, red cloth slipcase. 164 pages; frontispiece; folding color plate; 32 fine duotone plates of medals. New. Deluxe edition. One of 50 numbered copies, of an entire edition limited to 500 copies, finely printed letterpress on Frankfurt mouldmade paper by the Bird & Bull Press.

New York: ANS, 2005. 8vo, original cream cloth, gilt; jacket. vii, (1), 75, (1) pages; 9 plates. New. Numismatic Notes and Monographs No. 167. An excellent work, by far the most authoritative on this difficult yet fascinating subject.

Mission Viejo: George Frederick Kolbe, 1982. Small 4to, original red quarter morocco, gilt, with gray cloth sides; spine lettered and decorated in gilt; all page edges gilt. 270, (2) pages; frontispiece portrait; 22 additional portrait and other plates; original ink portrait of Ebenezer Locke Mason bound in with tissue guard; pictorial endpapers; printed throughout in red and black ink on acid-free paper. Fine. The Special Edition. Number 5 of only 21 copies issued, this one featuring an original ink portrait of Ebenezer Locke Mason Gengerke page i: "covers only the major numismatic firms ... but covers them in great detail. Not only are the contents listed for each sale, but consignors are listed and most sales are rated for quality of material and cataloging. Also included is an enjoyable history of each firm, giving the flavor of the period." Twenty-one of the twenty-two plates were derived from fine ink sketches by Alan Dietz, commissioned by the publisher. An original sketch was bound in each… Read More

Crestline: George F. Kolbe, 1990. Tall 4to [29.5 by 23 cm], original red half calf with gray cloth sides; spine with four raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt; printed in red and black. Frontispiece; 418, (2) pages; 21 additional plates. Untrimmed; pictorial endpapers mounted in place. New. One of two copies thus bound from a total of 12 untrimmed copies supplied by the printer to the publisher, most of which were distributed as gifts to friends. The normal edition of Adams Volume Two measures 26 by 18.5 cm. An essential work for anyone seriously interested in either the auction catalogues themselves or their contents.

Crestline: George Frederick Kolbe, 2007. New. Large 8vo, original linen, leather spine label, gilt. 304 pages, illustrated throughout in color. New.

Crestline: George Frederick Kolbe, 2007. New. Large 8vo, brown full morocco, leather spine label, gilt, cloth clamshell box. 351, (1) pages; 57 color plates and an original engraving for J.F. Loubat's "The Medallic History of the United States." New. Special edition. A Leaf book limited to 60 copies letterpress printed by Bird & Bull Press. A magnificent production. Citing from the preface: "The regular edition of Comitia Americana and Related Medals has been shaped for the scholar and the collector... The special edition at hand is intended to serve a different purpose. Here, the authors' objective is to place the reader in a closer relationship with the historical events that are described. To this end, the text of this edition has been prepared by the same letterpress technology in use in the late eighteenth century. The two centuries that lie between the American Revolution and the present day are neatly bridged by the inclusion of a leaf from a book published in 1878. Joseph Florimond Loubat's… Read More

Crestline: George Frederick Kolbe, 1999. New. 8vo, original red cloth, black morocco spine label, gilt. 164 pages; frontispiece; folding color plate; 32 duotone plates. New. One of 450 cloth-bound copies printed letterpress on Frankfurt mouldmade paper by the Bird & Bull Press.

Crestline: George Frederick Kolbe, 1990. New. 4to, red cloth and boards, lettered and decorated in gilt and black; page edges speckled; printed throughout in red and black. Frontispiece; 418, (2) pages; 21 additional plates; pictorial endpapers. New. One of 500 numbered copies, bound by hand and printed on acid free paper.

Newtown: Bird & Bull Press [Henry Morris], 2007. Crown 4to, original red quarter morocco and Japanese silk boards with mounted roundel printed by Morris; spine with black morocco spine label, gilt. 59, (15) pages; 4-page insert of stochastically printed illustrations of Comitia Americana medals; 2-page insert from Morrisís letterpress edition of Adams and Bentleyís Comitia Americana book; two leaves from Loubatís The Medallic History of the United States of America included in the pagination, along with a reproduction of the 1878 title page for Loubat. Fine. One of an edition of 150 copies printed on Zerkall mouldmade paper. A remarkable production that combines a classic of 19th-century American numismatic literature with the finest printing of 21st-century America. The book includes essays by Pete Smith, George F. Kolbe, John W. Adams and Henry Morris, and is very enjoyable to read. It is also a work of art, as Morrisís printing makes clear. A leaf book, it includes two actual leaves from… Read More

Mission Viejo: George Frederick Kolbe, 1982. First edition. 4to, original red cloth and boards, lettered and decorated in gilt and black; page edges speckled; printed throughout in red and black. Frontispiece; 270, (2) pages; 22 additional plates; pictorial endpapers. Fine. One of 500 copies of the original printing, bound by hand and printed on acid free paper.

Gahanna: Kolbe & Fanning, 2010. 4to, original cream cloth, gilt; jacket. 240 pages, illustrated in color. New. The comprehensive standard reference work on Admiral Vernon medals. "One of the signal triumphs of modern numismatic scholarship." — Joel J. Orosz.

London: Society of Antiquaries, 1834. 4to, somewhat later vellum-backed boards; red leather spine label lettered in gilt; all page edges marbled. Series title; pages 279-310; text illustrations; 2 engraved plates depicting the original vessel; 23 engraved plates of coins. Minor wear to spine; minimal foxing; near fine. An important, and very well-illustrated, account of this notable Anglo-Saxon hoard, discovered in 1832, as published in the pages of Archaeologia: or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity (Volume XXV). Very scarce.

Paris, 1959. 8vo, original printed card covers. 106, (2) pages; folding table; 20 fine plates. Unopened. Title written on spine, else fine. Scarce. Clain-Stefanelli 2747. Daehn 4854:"Examines the Hellenistic and Roman Provincial issues of Mylasa." Grierson 63: "Hellénistiques et gréco-impériales.".

Wien: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2017. 4to, original pictorial boards. 304 pages including 110 plates of coins. Text in English. New. Focuses on a late Sasanian hoard from Orumiyeh. Important. Includes some Arab-Sasanian coins.

Münster, 1989. 8vo, original printed card covers. Frontispiece portrait; 175, (1) pages; 37 plates. Previous owner's name on half title; near fine.

Moscow: Nauka, 2020. 8vo, original pictorial boards. 464 pages; illustrated in color. New. A remarkable collection of articles examining various facets of Grand Duke Georgii Mikhailovich's numismatic activities and the legacy of the collection he formed and the books that he either wrote or underwrote. Based on materials presented at the conference Numismatics in Russia: Grand Duke Georgii Mikhailovich and His Era.

New York: ANS, 2010. 4to, original tan cloth lettered in black; jacket. ix, (1), 294 pages; well illustrated, largely in color. New. Studies in Medallic Art, No. 1. An important recent work on the subject.