Sale 152 NUMISMATIC LITERATURE OF NORTH AMERICA Featuring Selections from the Libraries of Doug Robins, Philip J. Carrigan, John P. Donoghue & Others Mail Bid & Live Online Auction Saturday, April 27 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, April 26. 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] Highlights from This Sale President Ulysses S. Grant’s Set of Loubat: Presented by the Author to the Subject of Two of the Medals (lot 263) ............................ page 56 Del Bland’s Archive of Large Cent Collection Inventories & Correspondence (lot 48) .....................................................pages 12 A Complete Set of Hardcover Kolbe Catalogues (lot 235) ........................... page 51 All Four W.W.C. Wilson Sales, Including the Rare Fourth Sale (lot 324) ...................................................... page 69 The Second Day Variant of the W.W.C. Wilson Sale with Seven Photographic Plates (lot 326) ......................................... page 70 Phil Carrigan’s Extensive Collection of Canadian Numismatic Association Medals (lot 344) ........................................ page 74 The First Edition of Heath’s American Bond Detector (lot 206) ....................... page 45 Nearly Every Large-Format Plated Chapman Catalogue, Including Well-Preserved Copies of the Siedlecki, Parsons, and Bement American Sales (beginning at lot 94) ................................. page 20 Allison W. Jackman’s Plated Copy of Elder’s 1908 Gschwend Sale (lot 164) ............ page 37 Over 100 Jeffrey Hoare Sale Catalogues, Many Being Doug Robins’s Annotated Saleroom Copies (lot 217) ............................................ page 47 An Exceptional Plated Copy of Felt’s 1839 Historical Account of Massachusetts Currency (lot 172) .............................................. page 39 The First Seven Annual Reports of the Association of Banks for the Suppression of Counterfeiting (lot 33) ...................................... page 9 A Handsome Copy of Hickcox’s 1858 Historical Account of American Coinage (lot 214) .................................................. page 47 James Hutchings’s Illustrated 1856 Account of the San Francisco Mint (lot 228). page 49 Lawrence Lande’s Limited Edition Works on John Law (lot 252). page 54 A Set of Doug Robins’s Fixed Price List, A Collector’s Item (lot 341) .................. page 73 Andrew Zabriskie’s Rare 1873 Catalogue of Medals Honoring Abraham Lincoln (lot 439) ............................................ page 92 Cover: From Lot 99 NUMISMATICS OF NORTH AMERICA Rare German Publication Depicting catalogues themselves or their contents. Each volume is one of 500 cop- ies printed, bound by hand and printed on acid free paper. The inscrip- American Gold Rush Coins tion reads: “To Del Bland / Fellow collector, friend and fond parent of 1 Adam, P.L. [publisher]. DIE NEUESTEN AMERI- the condition census / With admiration and affection, (signed) John W. KANISCHEN MÜNZEN UND EINIGE ANDERE IN GET- Adams, 4/26/91.” Ex Del Bland Library. REUEN ABBILDUNGEN. Ulm: P.L. Adam’s Verlag, (c. 1852). 8vo, original yellow printed paper covers. 5 lithographic plates Adams on Indian Peace Medals of George III depicting mostly U.S. private and territorial gold coins. Two 4 Adams, John W. THE INDIAN PEACE MEDALS OF leaves detached from spine; very good or better. $100 GEORGE III, OR HIS MAJESTY’S SOMETIME ALLIES. Possibly the first copy we have handled. In addition to the private and Crestline, George Frederick Kolbe: 1999. 8vo, original red cloth, territorial gold coins, about one and a half plates depict American black morocco spine label, gilt. 164 pages; frontispiece; folding coins from outside the U.S., plus one Federal coin (a three-cent silver). color plate; 32 duotone plates. Fine. $100 The illustrations were taken from the Banker’s Magazine for 1851. Ex One of 450 cloth-bound copies printed letterpress on Frankfurt mould- Eric P. Newman Library. made paper by the Bird & Bull Press. Ex Doug Robins Library. Geoffrey Charlton Adams Auction Catalogues Deluxe Edition Comitia Americana 2 Adams, Geoffrey Charlton. PUBLIC AUCTION SALE with Gates Plate CATALOGUES. New York, 1904–1906. Eight catalogues, being 5 Adams, John W. and Anne E. Bentley. COMITIA AMERI- Nos. 9, 10, 12, 14, 20, 22, 23 and 25 of the series. 8vo, original CANA AND RELATED MEDALS: UNDERAPPRECIATED printed card covers. Covers frequently worn, as usual (see com- MONUMENTS TO OUR HERITAGE—A LEAF BOOK. Cres- ments). Sales 10 and 23 are hand-priced; Sale 20 is partly so. Sale tline: George Frederick Kolbe, 2007. 8vo, light brown full mo- 20 is worn, and missing the rear cover; Sale 23 has a plastic cover rocco, leather spine label, gilt, cloth clamshell box. 351, (1) pages; taped over the card covers. Generally very good. $150 57 color plates and an original engraving for J.F. Loubat’s The A nice group from this mysterious cataloguer, who had a particular Medallic History of the United States. Fine. $900 fondness for Canadian coins. John W. Adams has noted that “although Perhaps the most luxurious deluxe edition of a numismatic book pub- claiming to have been a numismatist since 1879, he does not surface lished in recent years. Limited to 60 copies printed by letterpress by in the hobby until 1903. Three years after he surfaces—in October of Henry Morris, of Bird & Bull Press. A magnificent production. Citing 1906, to be exact—he earns the rare honor of being expelled from the from the preface: “The regular edition of Comitia Americana and Re- American Numismatic Association.” His catalogues are difficult to col- lated Medals has been shaped for the scholar and the collector... The lect, partly because of the highly acidic paper he used in printing the special edition at hand is intended to serve a different purpose. Here, the covers of his catalogues. Ex Doug Robins Library. 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 Del Bland’s Set of Adams has been prepared by the same letterpress technology in use in the late 3 Adams, John W. UNITED STATES NUMISMATIC LIT- eighteenth century. The two centuries that lie between the American ERATURE. VOLUME I: NINETEENTH CENTURY AUC- Revolution and the present day are neatly bridged by the inclusion of a leaf from a book published in 1878. Joseph Florimond Loubat’s Medal- TION CATALOGS. Mission Viejo, California: George F. Kolbe, lic History of the United States is the spiritual ancestor of the present 1982. Frontispiece; 270, (2) pages; 22 additional plates; pictorial volume. Elegantly printed on sumptuous paper, Loubat’s magnum opus endpapers. [with] Adams, John W. UNITED STATES NUMIS- sets a standard of scholarly excellence that has not been matched and to MATIC LITERATURE. VOLUME II: TWENTIETH CENTU- which, immodestly, we aspire. Between the timeless craftsmanship of RY AUCTION CATALOGS. Crestline, California: G.F. Kolbe, Bird & Bull Press and the actual leaf from Loubat, the authors seek to 1990. Frontispiece; 418, (2) pages; 21 additional plates; pictorial reinforce the message that our early medals were intended to convey. It endpapers. Two volumes. 4to, original matching orange cloth is a noble message. We hope that this special edition will prove a worthy and boards, lettered and decorated in gilt and black; page edges carrier of important memories that comprise our national heritage.” The speckled; printed in red and black. Second volume inscribed to leaf from Loubat in this copy of the deluxe edition features the Comitia Americana medal awarded to Horatio Gates. Del Bland and signed by the author. Fine. $150 Essential works for anyone seriously interested in either the auction NORTH AMERICAN NUMISMATICS 4 Kolbe & Fanning Sale 152 • Saturday, April 27, 2019 Complete Pittman Catalogues, Third Annotated 6 Akers Numismatics, David. THE JOHN JAY PITTMAN COLLECTION. SELECTED NUMISMATIC RARITIES. PARTS ONE–THREE. Baltimore & Rosemont, Oct. 21–23, 1997; May 20–21, 1998; August 6–8, 1999. Three volumes. 4to, original matching pictorial card covers. xvi, 303, (1); xvi, 276; xvi, 503, (1) pages; 5250 lots; including 48 color plates; illustrated throughout, including many coin enlargements. All three parts with original prices realized lists. First two catalogues fine. Third sale is Doug Robins’s heavily annotated floor copy, with his bids, notes on buyers, invoice, etc. $300 A complete set of the catalogues prepared for the John Jay Pittman col- lection, one of the truly great U.S. collections of the twentieth century. Ex Doug Robins Library. Complete ANACS Counterfeit Reports 7 American Numismatic Association Certification Service. REPORTS (THE COUNTERFEIT DETECTOR). Series I, II and III. Colorado Springs, 1981–1886. A complete run of the first 85 issues. 4to, loose sheets, as issued punched for inclusion in three-ring binder. A few issues with tears near binder holes. Near fine. $150 Still important reports on counterfeit detection. The number of issues published has been inaccurately reported in the past. There are 37 issues in the first series, numbered 1–36 plus 3A. The second series comprises 24 issues, as does the third. The First Two Volumes of the AJN 8 [American Numismatic Society] American Numismat- ic and Archæological Society. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NUMISMATICS AND BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN NUMISMATIC AND ARCHÆOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Vol. I, Nos. 1–12, complete. New York, 1866–67. 96 pages. [with] Volume III of the AJN with the Levick Plate [American Numismatic Society] American Numismatic and 9 [American Numismatic Society] American Numis- Archæological Society. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NUMIS- matic and Archæological Society. AMERICAN JOURNAL MATICS. Vol. II, Nos. 1–12, complete. New York, 1867–68. OF NUMISMATICS AND BULLETIN OF THE AMERI- (2), 112 pages; text illustrations; map. Two volumes. 4to, con- CAN NUMISMATIC AND ARCHÆOLOGICAL SOCI- temporary matching tan half calf with marbled sides; spines ETY. Vol. III, Nos. 1–12, complete.