Sale 155 IMPORTANT NUMISMATIC LITERATURE Mail Bid & Live Online Auction Saturday, February 1 at 12:00 Noon Eastern Time Place bids and view lots online at BID.NUMISLIT.COM Absentee bids placed by post, email, fax or phone due by midnight Friday, January 31. Absentee bids may be placed online at any time before the sale. 141 W. Johnstown Road • Gahanna, Ohio 43230 (614) 414-0855 • Fax (614) 414-0860 • numislit.com • [email protected] Front cover from lot 51; back cover from lot 185 Terms of Sale 1. This is an online and mail-bid sale. Absentee bids will be accepted by mail, fax, email and phone until the day before the live online sale. On the day of the live online sale, only bids placed via the live online platform will be accepted: no phone, fax, email or mail bids can be entered on the day of the sale. 2. All lots will be sold to the highest bidder at the time of the sale. All bids (whether placed online or by mail, fax, email or phone) will be treated as limits and lots will be purchased below these limits where competition permits. 3. Absentee bidders should be mindful that bids submitted in irregular increments may be rounded to a lower bid to comply with the online platform’s established bidding increments. 4. Unless exempt by law, the buyer will be required to pay 7.5% sales tax on the total purchase price of all lots delivered in Ohio. Purchasers may also be liable for compensating use taxes in other states, which are solely the responsibility of the purchaser. Foreign bidders may be required to pay duties, fees or taxes in their respective countries, which are also the responsibility of the bidders. 5. This is not an approval sale. Any claims for adjustment by bidders must be made within three days after receipt of lots purchased. No lots may be returned without our written permission. By submitting bids you agree to the Terms of Sale. 6. Bidders unknown to us must supply acceptable credit references or a 25% deposit to assure entry of their bids. Registration of unknown bidders on the live online platform will constitute approval only when the bidder provides an acceptable credit card number with registration. 7. This is a reserve auction. The estimates of value are intended solely as a guide. Starting prices for this sale are at approximately two-thirds of estimate, though this may vary. Kolbe & Fanning reserve the right to purchase items in this sale for customers or stock at their discretion. 8. A buyer’s premium of 20% will be added to the cost of all lots purchased. 9. We reserve the right to withdraw any lot prior to sale for any reason. 10. All postage, insurance and shipping charges will be added to the buyer’s invoice. There will be a $3.00 charge per lot for processing. 11. A late payment fee of 2% per month will be charged on accounts remaining unpaid 30 days after the sale. 12. This sale is conducted in U.S. dollars. Payment may be made by check, money order, credit card, PayPal or wire transfer. All checks must be in U.S. dollars and drawn on U.S. banks. Our bank account details will be provided on request for wire transfers, and any bank charges must be paid by the sender. 13. Lots to be mailed to addresses not in the United States or its Territories will be sent only at the risk of the purchaser. When pos- sible, postal insurance will be obtained. Packages covered by private insurance will be so covered at a cost of 1% of total value, to be paid by the buyer. 14. Title to all lots remains with the cataloguer until paid for in full. Payment must be made immediately upon notification or upon receipt of material. The discretionary right to withhold delivery of lots until full payment has been received is reserved. 15. All lots are as described. We acknowledge the possibility of errors or typographical mistakes, and any errors on our part will be cheerfully corrected. We cannot be responsible for your errors; please check your bid sheet carefully. 16. Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers LLC are licensed by the State of Ohio Department of Agriculture (license 2011000028) as an auction firm, and are bonded as required by law in favor of the State of Ohio. BOOK SIZES BOOK CONDITIONS F° (folio) over 13 inches As new — no signs of wear or defects. 4to (quarto) 12 inches Fine — nice clean copy, slight signs of use. 8vo (octavo) 9 inches Very good — some wear, no serious defects. 12mo (duodecimo) 7–8 inches Good — average used and worn book, complete. 16mo (sextodecimo) 6–7 inches Reading copy — poor but readable. 24mo (vigesimoquarto) 5–6 inches Ex-library — with library identification marks. 32mo (trigesimosecundo) 4–5 inches Unless stated otherwise, all books are bound; all periodicals and auction sale catalogues are in the original paper covers. Books without descriptions of condition may be assumed to be nice clean copies in the octavo range. Sizes are not always noted for auction catalogues and periodicals. All serious defects are noted. © 2020 Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers 3 ANCIENT NUMISMATICS Romanian Numismatic Studies Museum Notes left off. Important. Includes the special Volume XX, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Society. 1 Academia Republicii Populare Romîne. STUDII ȘI CER- CETĂRI DE NUMISMATICĂ. Volumul II, V, and VIII–XII. Extensive Fixed Price Catalogues Bucharest, 1957–1997. Seven illustrated volumes. Small 4to, first two volumes bound in the original gray cloth, jackets; last 5 Ancient Arts (Bruce B. Braun). FIXED PRICE LISTS OF- five volumes bound in original printed card covers. Final vol- FERING ANCIENT COINS FOR SALE. Buffalo, 1961–1987. A ume damp-stained and with torn cover; rest very good or bet- large group of over 80 printed catalogues, as issued folded for ter. [with] Muzeul de Istorie. CERCETÁRI NUMISMATICE. mailing and with labels and postage applied. Mostly from the Volumul II and IV–VI. Bucharest, 1979–1990. Four illustrated 1970s. Generally very good to near fine. Also included are sev- volumes. 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Very good. $150 eral catalogues issued by John Aiello (early 1970s), nine mail-bid Infrequently offered. Clain-Stefanelli 939 and 458, respectively. sales from The Ancient Gens (early 1970s), two of them with rarely seen printed prices realized lists, and a Fall 1983 catalogue On a Coin of Gordian III from Empire Coins. Generally near fine or so. $100 2 Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. MÉ- An interesting lot of infrequently seen ancient coin lists. MOIRES DE LITTERATURE, TIRÉZ DES REGISTRES DE L’ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES INSCRIPTIONS ET BEL- Voice of the Turtle LES-LETTRES. DEPUIS L’ANNÉE M.DCC.XXXI. JUSQUÉS 6 Ancient Coin Club of America. THE VOICE OF THE & COMPRIS L’ANNÉE M.DCC.XXXIII. Amsterdam: Chez TURTLE / NORTH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NUMIS- François Changuion, 1741. Tome Quinzième. 12mo, original MATICS. Vol. III through Vol. VIII, complete, plus Vol. I, Nos. full brown speckled calf; spine with five raised bands, decorated 5 and 6, and Vol. II, Nos. 3, 5 and 6. Chicago, 1962–1969. Very in gilt; two red morocco spine labels, gilt, the lower erroneously good to fine. $120 labeled “TOM XX”; all page edges red; marbled endpapers; silk A substantially complete set of this bibliographically confusing series. marker. Title printed in red and black with engraved printer’s Volume I and II each comprised six issues; Vol. III had only three; Vol- device signed B.P. (4), 624 pages; woodcut initials, tailpieces and umes IV–VI each had twelve; Vol. VII had six; and Vol. VIII had three. Clain-Stefanelli 966. other devices; 6 engraved folding plates depicting plans, assem- blies and antiquities; one engraved text illustration depicting Near Complete Set of Arethuse both sides of a Roman bronze coin of Gordian. Binding a trifle worn, but nearly fine and still very attractive. One folding plate 7 Babelon, Jean, and Pierre d’Espezel [publishers]. ARETHU- with marginal wear from folding. Near fine. $150 SE: REVUE TRIMESTRIELLE D’ART & D’ARCHÉOLOGIE. A scarce volume of the proceedings of the Académie Royale des In- Paris, 1923–1931. A nearly complete set of 26 (out of 30) fas- scriptions et Belles-Lettres, including l’Abbé de Fontenu’s “Dissertation cicules, lacking only Nos. 1, 18, 20 and 21 for completion. 4to, sur une Médaille de Gordien-Pie, & sur l’Histoire de la Ville de Sinope, original printed card covers. Approximately 1400 pages; text où cette Médaille a été frappée.” The Academy was founded in 1663 by illustrations; numerous fine plates. Occasional supplementary Jean-Baptiste Colbert. Often referred to as the “petite Académy,” this matter. Several issues with worn or detached covers and spines; small group was responsible for advising on matters of iconography and generally very good, with a few exceptions. $300 the proper use of Latin on monuments, memorials and, notably, medals. An important, wide-ranging publication heavily devoted to numismatic topics, from ancient coins to modern medals, also including seals and Museum Notes engraved gems. Rarely offered complete. Clain-Stefanelli 369. 3 American Numismatic Society. MUSEUM NOTES. Vols. 1–33, complete except for Volumes 3 and 5–7. New York, 1946– Part III of Bahrfeldt’s Revision of Babelon 1988. First two issues 16mo, then 8vo, all in their original printed on Roman Republican Coins card covers. Twenty-nine volumes; over 6000 pages; around 900 8 Bahrfeldt, M. von. NACHTRÄGE UND BERICHTIGUN- fine plates. A few volumes worn; most near fine.