Sale 153 IMPORTANT NUMISMATIC LITERATURE Featuring Selections from the Libraries of Philip J. Carrigan, Dr. Robert A. Schuman & Others Mail Bid & Live Online Auction Saturday, July 13 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, July 12. Absentee bids may be placed online any time before the sale. 141 W. Johnstown Road • Gahanna, Ohio 43230 (614) 414-0855 • Fax (614) 414-0860 • numislit.com • [email protected] Phil Carrigan: Some Recollections by David F. Fanning I’m not sure, but I believe I first met Phil Carrigan in person at a PAN show perhaps 15 years ago. But Phil would have been among my earliest customers after I returned to the hobby in 1999. Phil was an assidu- ous collector of American numismatic auction catalogues, and since the early U.S. catalogues were my first love in the area of numismatic litera- ture, we had plenty in common. We both enjoyed studying the history of the hobby, especially the hobby of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and felt that the auction catalogues played a major role in telling that story. We also shared the conviction that the story couldn’t really be told if one just focused on the major dealers or the landmark sales: the full story included the third-tier dealers and the forgettable sales as well as the Woodwards and Chapmans, the Mickleys and Stickneys. We had other things in common. We both lived in the Mid- west (though he was imported from Boston), and both had Ph.D.s (though his, in pharmacokinetics, sounded a lot more impressive than mine in English). Furthermore, we were both interested in early Canadian tokens, a strange little area of numismatics that is beloved by a close cadre of collectors in both the U.S. and Canada. I recall Phil visiting me at my home in the Columbus area and the two of us combining our notes to try to puzzle out the bibliographic details of our mutual friend Warren Baker’s frequently undated or unnum- bered fixed-price catalogues. In 2015, I was able to make a sale that really made me happy. For years, Phil had been trying to complete his set of Stack’s catalogues. He needed two of them at one point, and I had been able to close the gap to one. That one remaining cata- logue (Oct. 30, 1937) haunted his Want List for ages. Finally, I found a copy. I was about to call Phil and let him know, when I had a better idea. I contacted his wife, Mary Clare, and told her what I’d found. She knew all about the sole missing cata- logue and was very happy to purchase it for Phil. She gave it to him for Father’s Day, 2015, which cheers me to think about. Phil was a neat guy, and I’ll miss him. —Reprinted from the Spring 2018 issue of The Asylum Cover: From Lot 19 ANCIENT NUMISMATICS Die Kontorniat-Medaillons 1 Alföldi, Andreas, and Elisabeth Alföldi. DIE KONTORNI- AT-MEDAILLONS. TEIL 2: TEXT. Berlin, 1990. 4to, original green cloth, gilt. xxiii, (1), 455, (1) pages; plates 213–276. Housed in original cardboard slipcase. Fine. $300 Important, and rarely available. Considerably augments the more com- mon two-volume 1976 work. Amandry on Corinth 2 Amandry, Michel. LE MONNAYAGE DES DUOVIRS CORINTHIENS. Athens, 1988. 8vo, original printed card cov- ers. vi, (2), 269, (3) pages; 48 fine plates of coins. Small corner bump; near fine. $250 A highly important work on the bronze coinage struck under Roman authority in Corinth; in considerable demand. Kroh 39 (five stars): “a virtual die corpus of these issues. ... An exceptional work, with ... excep- tional plates.” Anson’s Numismata Graeca 3 Anson, Leo. NUMISMATA GRAECA: GREEK COIN TYPES, CLASSIFIED FOR IMMEDIATE IDENTIFICA- TION. TEXT: PARTS I–VI / SMALL NUMISMATIC DIC- Rare 17th-century German “Coin Book” TIONARY ... RECORD OF RECENT AUCTION PRICES / Includes Section on Ancient Roman & Jewish Coins GENERAL GUIDE—INDEX / SUMMARY AND PLATES: 4 Arndt, B. MÜNTZ BUCH DARINNEN ZUBE- PARTS I–VI. First edition. London, 1910–16. Thirteen parts SEHEN DIE BESTEN UNND SCHÖNSTEN, SO WOL complete, bound in two volumes. 4to, contemporary matching ALTE ALS NEWE GELT-MÜNTZE... Hamburg: Jurgen tan half morocco, front boards impressed with JR monogram Wolders, 1631. 4to [20.5 by 16 cm], contemporary vellum- in gilt; spines with five raised bands and lettered in gilt; mar- covered boards; paper label with manuscript title on spine. bled endpapers; top page edges gilt; original printed card covers Woodcut vignette of obverse and reverse of two coins at bound in at end. viii, 138; (4), 112; (4), 152; (4), 99, (1); (4),146; base of title page; (viii), 240, (8) pages, final pagination (4), 108; 20, 7, (1); xli, (1); (2), viii; ix, (1); ix, (1); viii; x; vii, (1) being a Register; some erratic pagination between pages pages; 27 + 25 + 30 + 21 + 25 + 22 fine plates depicting 3667 57 and 61, but apparently complete; illustrated through- different coins, including illustrations of 6856 obverses and re- out with woodcut illustrations of many hundreds of con- verses. Bindings somewhat rubbed, but still attractive. Very good temporary circulating and earlier coins, including ancient or better, with clean interiors. $300 Jewish and Roman coins, all contained within woodcut A most useful attribution aid, arranged using the following categories: borders. Moderate browning and general wear. Very good 1) Industry; 2) War; 3) Agriculture; 4) Religion; 5) Architecture; 6) Na- or better. $600 val and Marine; 7) Science & the Arts; and 8) Various. Clain-Stefanelli Very scarce. A highly unusual example of the genre. While these 3406*. Daehn 860: “A comprehensive guide to identifying Greek coins.” were produced to enable merchants, treasurers, and others to iden- Grierson 59. Kroh 8 and 66: “This work identifies Greek coins having as tify a wide variety of circulating coins, this one begins with a 16- their devices inanimate objects (excluding animals, gods and humans).” page section on the coins of antiquity (Insignia Numismata aliquot A note in pencil identifies this set as deriving from the John Rylands Imperatorum Veterum Romanorum), which ends with a page depict- library, but we are unable to confirm this. ing both sides of three ancient Jewish coins. Dekesel A56 (with just 8 copies recorded, 2 of them defective). Lipsius 271. Babelon’s Rois de Syrie 5 Babelon, Ernest. CATALOGUE DES MONNAIES GRECQUES DE LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE. LES The Traité Reprint ROIS DE SYRIE, D’ARMÉNIE ET DE COMMAGÈNE. Paris, 6 Babelon, Ernest. TRAITÉ DES MONNAIES GRECQUES 1890. Small 4to, dark green half morocco with marbled sides; ET ROMAINES. Reprint. Bologna: Forni, 1965–76. Nine vol- spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt. (4), ccxxii, (2), 268 umes, complete. Tall 8vo, original matching blue cloth, gilt. 3340 pages; text illustrations; folding genealogical table; 32 fine plates, pages; 355 plates. Near fine to fine copies. $400 all but the last two depicting coins. Untrimmed and fine. $600 The infrequently seen reprint of this foundational work. Clain-Stefanel- An attractively bound copy of this important work, of continued signifi- li 1809*: “An unfinished but monumental work, indispensable for the cance and with fine plates. Clain-Stefanelli 2850*. Daehn 5234. scholar.” Grierson 52. ANCIENT NUMISMATICS 4 Kolbe & Fanning Sale 153 • Saturday, July 13, 2019 First Two Parts of Bahrfeldt’s Revision man coins. [bound with] MUSEI MEADIANI, PARS ALTERA: of Babelon on Roman Republican Coins QUAE VETERIS AEVI MONUMENTA AC GEMMAS, CUM ALIIS QUIBUSDAM ARTIS RECENTIORIS ET NATURAE 7 Bahrfeldt, M. NACHTRÄGE UND BERICHTIGUNGEN OPERIBUS, COMPLECTITUR. Londoni: Apud A. Langford ZUR MÜNZKUNDE DER RÖMISCHEN REPUBLIK IM AN- in area dicta Covent-Garden, March 11, 1755. (211)–262 pages; SCHLUSS AN BABELON’S VERZEICHNISS DER CONSUL- 593 lots in all. [bound following] Royal Society (London). DIP- AR-MÜNZEN. I. & II. BÄNDE. Wien: Selbstverlag des Verfass- LOMATA ET STATUTA REGALIS SOCIETATIS LONDINI. ers, 1897 and 1900. Two volumes, bound in one. 8vo, slightly London: Sam. Richardson, 1752. iv, 116 pages. Three works in later red cloth, gilt. ix, (1), 316 + ix, (1), 112 pages; text illustra- one volume. 8vo, modern polished tan quarter calf with marbled tions; 13 + 6 fine plates of coins. Both volumes numbered and sides; spine with five raised bands, ruled, lettered and decorated signed by the author. Binding a bit worn at extremities; pages a in gilt. Frontispiece and title a little dusty, otherwise fresh and little browned. Very good. $750 Bahrfeldt’s revision of Babelon is one of the most important works ever crisp throughout. $600 Probably the earliest truly important numismatic auction to take place published on Roman Republican coins. It was originally published in in Great Britain. Manville & Robertson page 10: “Mead’s sale offered three parts over four volumes of the Numismatische Zeitschrift (1896– the most extensive collection of coins in London to that date and the 1897, 1900 and 1918). This volume comprises the separately published purchasers included many well-known eighteenth-century English col- book (offprint) editions of the first and second parts. A landmark work, lectors. Many lots contained 20–40 Roman coins, each described with rarely offered complete (the third part was not published for nearly twen- full legends, which helps explain the catalogue’s length of more than ty years after the second). A set composed of all three signed offprints sold 200 pages for fewer than 600 lots.” A monumental early sale. Bound for $4250 hammer in our RBW Library sale. Clain-Stefanelli 3715*: “An with this copy is the second portion of the sale, featuring gems, antiqui- essential addition to Babelon’s work.” Ex Stack Family Library.