Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers will be holding our next auction on Saturday, May 31, 2025. Featuring the second half of the L.D. & I.P. Library and additional selections from the library of Barry Tayman, the sale includes rare and out-of-print works on ancient, world and U.S. numismatics. The 500 lots offer something for everybody, with books from the 17th through the 21st century.
Some highlights of this first sale include:
Lot 32: a photographic record of the magnificent collection of Roman gold coins and medallions formed by Leo Biaggi de Blasys.
Lot 223: all three folio volumes of Ennio Visconti’s incomparable ancient Greek iconography, including a vast array of exquisitely engraved illustrations of ancient coins.
Lot 150: Giuseppe Mazzini’s Monete Imperiali Romane, edited by Mario Ratto and published between 1957 and 1958, describing and illustrating over 8000 coins on 531 plates.
Lot 177: a complete offering of P. & P. Santamaria’s extraordinary 12-volume set of catalogues of the Count Dr. Alessandro Magnaguti collection of ancient and Italian coins and medals.
Lot 265: John J. Ford, Jr.’s notes on Canadian tokens and Franco-American coins, including original photographs and other illustrations, manuscript notes, and correspondence.
Lot 285: a complete set of the deluxe editions prepared for the first five volumes of Harrington Manville’s Encyclopaedia of British Numismatics.
Lot 290: José Toribio Medina’s 1924 classic Medallas Europeas Relativas a América, discussing in extensive detail nearly 500 different medals of North, Central and South America.
Lot 361: a photographically plated copy of S.H. Chapman’s catalogue of the F.G. Simpson collection, one of the rarest of the plated Chapman catalogues, with only five examples traced.
Lot 324: a finely bound set of the American Journal of Numismatics, the cornerstone of American numismatic literature and one of the true landmark publications in the field.
Lot 339: Burdette Johnson’s archives relating to the Virgil Brand collection and Johnson’s role in the disposition of parts of the collection on behalf of the Brand Estate.
