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(FOLIO SOCIETY) HISTORY RELATED FOUR SETS EACH OF THREE VOLUMES to include Carlyle, Thomas `The French Revolution` together with NOTABLE HISTORICAL TRIALS four volumes and MIDDLE AGES five volumes (21 volumes in total)

(FOLIO SOCIETY) HODGKIN, THOMAS `THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE` in eight uniform volumes together with `THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND ONE NIGHT` four volume set with illustrations by Eric Fraser (12)

(FOLIO SOCIETY) VARIOUS AUTHORS BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY, TWENTY ONE VOLUMES to include Smiles, Samuel `The Lives of George & Robert Stephenson`; Barbero, Alessandro `Charlemagne` and Bradbury, Sue `Chinggis Khan: The Golden History of the Mongols` (21)

(FOLIO SOCIETY) DICKENS CHARLES WORKS OF SIXTEEN UNIFORM VOLUMES green cloth and gilt (16)

(FOLIO SOCIETY) `CLARISSA OT THE HISTORY OF A YOUNG LADY` two volumes in slip case ELEVEN OTHER VOLUMES various authors mainly with faults either spine faded or soiled and SEVEN OTHER VOLUMES LACKING SLIP CASES includes The Best of the Marx Brothers with silver metallic and pictorial spine and front cover (20 vols in total)

(FOLIO SOCIETY) GIBBON, EDWARD `THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROAMN EMPIRE` in eight volumes maroon cloth and gilt and TWO RELATED WORKS (10)

(FOLIO SOCIETY) VARIOUS AUTHORS SUNDRY WORKS, EXPLORATION, TRAVEL ETC. 21 VOLUMES SOME LARGE FORMAT includes Newby, Eric `A Book of Travellers Tales` Latham `The Travels of Marco Polo`, `Wonders of the World` x two `Mapping the World` and Clark, Kenneth `Civilisation` (21)

(FOLIO SOCIETY) VARIOUS AUTHORS POETRY AND LITERATURE includes Frost Robert `Selected Poems`, `Poems by Thomas Hardy` and THE OXFORD LIBRARY THREE BOXED SETS `Classic English Short Stories` `Words and Phrases` and `English Usage`, 16 volumes in total

(FOLIO SOCIETY) SHAKESPEARE FOUR VOLUME set viz Histories I & II Tragicomedies and Romances, SIMILAR SET and CLASSICS FIVE VOLUME SET Plato, Aristotle, Lucretius, Cicero & Seneca (13 volumes in total)

BRYSON, BILL, `THE LOST CONTINENT`, published by Folio Society 2007, in slip case; same author, `A Short History of Nearly Everything` illustrated edition published by Doubleday 2005 and `Made in America`; Hennessy, Peter, `The Secret State`, 1st edition, published by The Penguin Press 2002 and various authors, four related works, Freeze, Gregory, `Russia, A History` 1st edition, published Oxford university Press 1997, d/w and Wolfe, Tom, `The Right Stuff,` Folio Society, in slip case (10)

BRYSON, BILL, `THE LOST CONTINENT` PUBLISHED BY FOLIO SOCIETY` 2007, in slip case; same author, `A Short History of Nearly Everything` illustrated edition published by Doubleday 2005 and `Made in America`; Hennessy, Peter, `The Secret State`, 1st edition, published by The Penguin Press 2002 and various authors, four related works, Freeze, Gregory, `Russia History` 1st edition, published Oxford University Press 1997, d/w and Wolfe, Tom, `The Right Staff`, Folio Society, in slip case (10)

HANDEL (GEORG FRIDRICH) THE MESSIAH; AN ORATORIO COMPOSED BY MR. HANDLE FOR THE VOICE HARPSICHORD AND VIOLIN WITH THE CHORUSES IN SCORE BOUND WITH JUDAS MASSABEUS AN ORATORIO, THE GRAND DETTINGEN TE DEUM and JUBILATE DEO - London printed for Harrison & Co - circa 1780`s. Oblong folio with marbled boards and morocco spine, gilt tooled front board label in red morocco (incomplete) front board detached some pages with paper restoration.

ROUAULT, GEORGE. Stella Vespertina. Paris: Rene Drouin. MCMXLVII [1947.] Folio. No. 35 of 2000 copies. 12 fine tipped in colour plates, 28 Pp. text, loose as issued in portfolio, chemise and remains of slip case EST 50-80

A SET OF THREE HAND COLOURED PRINTS OF BRITISH BIRDS `Coal Tit` etc and a varnished colour print reproduction mounted on canvas, Boy carrying a folio, 10" x 8"(25.5cm x 20.3cm) unframed (4)

GOARD (twentieth century) FOLIO OF 35 LIFE DRAWINGS AND TWO FRAMED MALE STUDIES Signed and unsigned, dated 1930-36 22" x 15" (55.9cm x 30.1cm) the largest (37)

Bulychov, N.I. ИЗСЛѢДОВАНIЕ НѢКОТОРЫХЪ ИЗОБРАЖЕНIЙ НА ДРЕВНИХЪ РУССКИХЪ ДЕНЬГАХЪ. Выпускъ I. St. Petersburg, 1904. Small folio, original printed card covers. (2), 119, (5) pages; illustrated throughout. Spine very worn, with front cover detached but present. Interiors better. Very good or so. A very rare work. Not listed in the extensive bibliography in Chernetsov’s 1983 work on the subject.

Georgii Mikhailovich, Grand Duke. МОНЕТЫ ЦАРСТВОВАНIЯ ИМПЕРАТОРА ПЕТРА I. ТОМЪ II. St. Petersburg, 1914. Folio [40.5 by 31 cm], recent brown antiqued quarter morocco with burgundy cloth sides; spine with four raised bands; dark red calf spine label, gilt. Half-title; printed title in red and black; magnificently engraved portrait of Peter I; decorative phototype title; dedication leaf; ii, (2), 153, (1) pages; 55 very fine phototype plates on hinges, depicting coins from 1682 to 1710. Half-title a trifle dusty and chipped at edges. Near fine, with superb impressions of the plates. Copy No. 190. The only full volume produced on Peter I of Grand Duke Georgii Mikhailovich’s monumental work, published over a quarter century in a dozen volumes. The publication history behind the Peter I volumes of Монеты Царствованiя is a bit complicated. Volume I, which would have reproduced the historical documentation behind the coinage, was not yet produced when the project had to be suspended. Likewise, Volume IV had yet to be written. Volume II (the present volume) covers the period from 1682 to 1710, including the regency of Sophia and the coins of Peter’s brother Ivan (Ioann). Only the plates for Volume III appeared (vide infra). This is the only Peter I volume of this extraordinary work for which both text and plates were published. S.G. Gromachevskii wrote that Монеты Царствованiя is a “colossal and classic scientific work which has no equal in the Russian or in the entire foreign field of numismatic literature. Especially important for the coverage of monetary history through the inclusion of a vast wealth of hitherto inaccessible documentation. Each volume contains a well-focused summary covering the technical and fiscal aspects of the coinage it deals with, along with succinct, precise descriptions of the coins. A fully developed index in each volume covers persons, coins, subjects, etc. The edition is stunningly deluxe, with paper of the highest quality, elegant typography and superb photographic illustrations of the coins. The Office for the Preparation of Government Documents [the equivalent of the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing] has turned out an unexcelled masterpiece.” The renowned numismatic researcher and collector Georgii Mikhailovich was born in Tiflis in 1863 and was murdered on January 28, 1919 by the Bolsheviks along with three other Russian Grand Dukes. His tragic end was in contrast to a life of privilege. The Grand Duke began collecting coins as a teenager and, being of extraordinary means, soon formed an impressive collection. In Описанiе и изображенiе нѣкоторыхъ рѣдкихъ монетъ моего собранiя, he first proposed the publication of a corpus of Russian coinage from Peter the Great onwards. A corpus of pre-Petrine coinage had already been proposed by Count Tolstoï a few years earlier. The Grand Duke funded the project and under his direction the various volumes were compiled by Giel, Demmeni and others. Twelve volumes had appeared when the outbreak of war curtailed completion. In an article in the Journal of the Russian Numismatic Society, V. Arefiev wrote: “Volume II covered the coinage from 1682 to 1710: it was published in 1914. Though the printing run of 200 was the same as for the preceding issues, very few were actually distributed and it is extremely rare.” Clain-Stefanelli 11178*. Grierson 193. Gromachevskii 92 (the project as a whole; this volume is unlisted). Ex Kolbe Sale 72 (1998), lot 1134, where it brought $4000 hammer. The Extremely Rare Georgii Mikhailovich Plates for 1711–1719

Georgii Mikhailovich, Grand Duke. МОНЕТЫ ЦАРСТВОВАНIЯ ИМПЕРАТОРА ПЕТРА I. ТОМЪ III. (St. Petersburg, 1914). Folio [41 by 32 cm], housed in recent brown antiqued quarter morocco clamshell box with burgundy cloth sides; spine with four raised bands; dark red calf spine label, gilt. 40 superb phototype plates of coins (numbered LVI–XCV), some overprinted in French, some in Russian. Top plate a bit browned and scuffed from exposure; rest fine or very nearly so. Of exceptional rarity, unmentioned by Garshin or Volkov. As discussed in detail above, production of the Peter the Great volumes of Georgii Mikhailovich’s corpus of Russian coins was interrupted by the outbreak of war, with only Volume II being published in full. A few sets of the plates for Volume III had been printed, but were essentially in the proof stage. Most sets of the corpus that have come to market—the Stack’s family set in 2010, the set in the April 1992 van der Dussen sale, the Willy Fuchs set in 1991—have lacked these rare plates. Only Leon Hermes’s complete set sold by Kolbe in 1997, which included 50 plates for this period (including Plates XCVI–CV not present here) and the set of Volumes II and III sold by Kolbe in 1995 (which included 48 of the 50 known plates and which was recently sold by Dmitry Markov) surpass this set in number. This set is ex Peter Landry, and was sold in the 1981 Sotheby’s sale of his library; it had been acquired by Landry from V. Arefiev as part of a trade. Poorly described, the plates brought a paltry £275. They later appeared in a World-Wide Coins of California (James F. Elmen) sale of 14 May 1998, where they sold to the present consignor. An important opportunity.

Georges Michaïlovitch, Grand-Duc. MONNAIES DE L’EMPIRE DE RUSSIE 1725–1894. TRADUCTION FRANÇAISE PAR NADINE TACKÉ NÉE LÉNIVOVA, DOCTEUR DE L’UNIVERSITÉ DE PARIS, AVEC LE CONCOURS DE M. F. DE VILLENOISY, BIBLIOTHÉCAIRE AU CABINET DES MÉDAILLES. OUVRAGE PUBLIÉ SOUS LES AUSPICES DE M. E. BABELON, MEMBRE DE L’INSTITUT, CONSERVATEUR DU CABINET DES MÉDAILLES DE LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE. Paris: Chez M. Feuardent, Éditeur, 1916. The complete work, bound in four volumes. Folio [39 by 30.5 cm], later orange linen, gilt; decorative endpapers. (8), viii pages; 10 plates illustrating 204 “Tranches”; Impératrice Ekaterina Ire: 34 pages, portrait plate, 26 plates; Empereur Pierre II: 16 pages, portrait plate, 12 plates; Impératrice Anna Iohannovne: 28 pages, portrait plate, 16 plates; Empereur Iohann Antovich: 12 pages, portrait plate, 3 plates; Impératrice Elisabeth Ire: 44 pages, portrait plate, 22 plates; Empereur Pierre III: 11, (1) pages, portrait plate, 2 plates; Impératrice Ekaterina II: 72 pages, portrait plate, 43 plates; Empereur Paul Ier: 22, (2) pages, portrait plate, 7 plates; Empereur Alexandre Ier: 38, (2) pages, portrait plate, 22 plates; Empereur Nicolas Ier: 49, (3) pages, portrait plate, 41 plates; Empereur Alexandre II: 36 pages, portrait plate, 28 plates; Empereur Alexandre III: 22, (2) pages, 8 plates; Monnaies Russes frappées à l’Étranger ou dans les pays annexés: 20 pages, 4 plates; Monnaies Russes frappées en Géorgie 1804–1833: 18, (2) pages, 3 plates; Monnaies frappées en Pologne 1816–1841: 28 pages, 7 plates; Monnaies Russes frappées en Finlande 1864–1890: 16 pages, 2 plates; iv, x pages. 508 pages in all; occasional text illustrations of coins; 10 plates depicting edge designs; 11 finely engraved portrait plates of rulers; a total of 246 superb Photohyalotypie plates of coins bound in on hinges. A fine set. A well-preserved set of the French translation of Монеты Царствованiя, the history of which project is given in the lot descriptions above. This French translation includes all of the superb plates of coins and their accompanying detailed descriptions, but omits the lengthy historical documentation. This edition was produced with the approval and cooperation of the Grand Duke, and the plates came from St. Petersburg and are of identical quality to the ones appearing in the Russian edition. (See V. Arefiev’s 2012 Grand Duke Georgii Mikhaïlovich, Corpus of Russian Coins, French Edition, Paris 1916: A Brief History for more information.) Only 200 sets of the Russian edition were issued; archival records published by V. Arefiev state that only 100 copies of each plate were printed for the French edition, suggesting a maximum number of French sets published. They rarely appear on the market. Clain-Stefanelli 11180*. Grierson 194. Ex Christie’s library, with their bookplate dated 25/4/1979, sold as a duplicate when Christie’s acquired Spink and merged their libraries.

Kœhne, B. de. DESCRIPTION DU MUSÉE DE FEU LE PRINCE BASILE KOTSCHOUBEY D’APRÈS SON CATALOGUE MANUSCRIT ET RECHERCHES SUR L’HISTOIRE ET LA NUMISMATIQUE DES COLONIES GRECQUES EN RUSSIE AINSI QUE DES ROYAUMES DU PONT ET DU BOSPHORE CIMMÉRIEN. VOL. IER ET VOL. IIE: LE ROYAUME DU BOSPHORE-ROYAUME DU PONT. St. Pétersbourg: Imprimerie des papiers de la couronne, 1857. Two volumes, complete. Folio [31.5 by 27.5 cm], matching blue cloth, gilt. (4), viii, (2), 450, 448–451, (1), ii; (2), ii, 419, (1), ii, xxi, (1) pages; tables; genealogical tables, 5 folding; text figures of coins; 38 plates, comprised of 20 engraved plates of coins and 8 handsome lithographic plates of antiquities, etc., printed in colors. Bindings a bit dusty, with front hinge of first volume cracked; contents a bit foxed as usual. Near fine. An important contribution. Very rare. Ex Edward Theodore Newell, with his bookplate and his wife’s label. Köhne (1817–86) was a senior keeper of coins at the Hermitage. Clain-Stefanelli 2636: “Good collection of Bosphorus coins.” Friedländer & Sohn 210 (1871): “Tiré à 100 exempl. seulement, pour être donné en présent aux amis du prince et à quelques savants distingués.” Gromachevskii 160л. Hiersemann 269 (1902): “Non mis dans le commerce. — Rare.” Liste & Francke (1911): “Exemplar des seltenen, nur in 100 Exempl. gedruckten Werkes.” Quaritch 469 (1933): “Privately printed for presents only.” Ex Kolbe Sale 87, lot 460.

Markov, A. КАТАЛОГЪ ДЖЕЛАИРИДСКИХЪ МОНЕТЪ. St. Petersburg, 1897. Folio [34 by 25.5 cm], later light blue half morocco. (4), v, (1), lxxxii, 64, (4) pages; folding map printed in three colors; text figures; 9 fine phototype plates of coins. Spine a bit sunned. Fine. An exceptionally well-preserved copy of this very rare and important work on Jalayirid coins. Gromachevskii 207б. Mayer 1130. Ex Künker sale of the Münzen und Medaillen library (Auktion 102, 2005), lot 5154.

Moskovskoe Numizmaticheskoe Obshchestvo. ТРУДЫ МОСКОВСКАГО НУМИЗМАТИЧЕСКАГО ОБЩЕСТВА. Первый Томъ; Томъ II, Выпускъ 1–3; Томъ III, Выпускъ 1–2. Moscow: W.K. Trutowsky, V.A. Ulyanitzkii and A.V. Oreshnikov, editors, 1898–1905. Six parts, bound in three volumes. Folio and 4to, first volume in contemporary brown half morocco, rebacked; second in contemporary black half morocco; third in contemporary brown patterned calf; some original wraps bound in. Vol. I: (4), 249, (1) pages; text illustrations; 4 fine coin plates numbered I–II and IV–V, as issued, and 3 portrait plates; Vol. II: 352, (4) pages; text illustrations; 12 fine coin plates, 30 lithographic plates; Vol. III: 388 pages; text illustrations; 10 fine coin plates, 24 lithographic coin plates numbered VII–XXX [the lithographic plates are also bound into the previous volume]. All bindings a bit worn, but sound and attractive. Very good to near fine. An important and well-illustrated journal. Very rare. Authors include Oreshnikov, Markov, Demmeni, Prowe, Retowski, Nützel, Iversen, Trutowsky, Tiesenhausen, Ulyanitzkii and others. The first volume’s coin plates are numbered 1–2 and 4–5, but are complete as issued. First volume ex Leonidas C. Hermes (Kolbe Sale 71, lot 73), with his label. Second and third volumes ex Ran Zander (Elmen 2001 sale, lot 1089), previously from the Sotheby’s Landry sale (lot 86). Third volume also ex F.I. Prove. Clain-Stefanelli 953. Grierson 21.

Oreshnikov, A.V. ОБОЗРѢНIЕ МОНЕТЪ, НАЙДЕННЫХЪ ПРИ ХЕРСОНЕССКИХЪ РАСКОПКАХЪ ВЪ 1888 И 1889 ГОДАХЪ. St. Petersburg: Матерiалы по Археологiи Россiи, No. 7 (1892). Folio [37 by 27 cm], contemporary brown cloth, decorated in blind; original printed paper front cover bound in. (4), 46 pages; text illustrations; 4 fine plates depicting antiquities. Entire issue present [Oreshnikov’s work comprises pages 33–46]. Binding somewhat worn; label stain to front cover; various markings to front paper cover; very good or so. A rare work by Oreshnikov on coins found during excavations in Chersonesos in 1888 and 1889. Accompanied in this issue by an article by Mal’mberg on antiquities. Gromachevskii 251г. A Fine Copy of Oreshnikov with Both Supplements

Ricaud de Tiregale, P. MÉDAILLES SUR LES PRINCIPAUX EVÉNÉMENS DE L’EMPIRE DE RUSSIE DEPUIS LE RÈGNE DE PIERRE LA GRAND JUSQU’À CELUI DE CATHERINE II AVEC DES EXPLICATIONS HISTORIQUES. À Potsdam: chéz Sommer Imprimeur de la Cour, 1772. Folio [37 by 24 cm], contemporary brown marbled paper boards; black leather spine label, gilt. Magnificent engraved frontispiece portrait of Catherine II; title printed in red and black with engraved printer’s vignette; (4), 111, (3) printed leaves; finely engraved allegorical dédicace; woodcut decorations; 111 fine engravings of medals, each followed by descriptive text. Negligible intermittent foxing and discoloration. Fine. A superb example of this rare classic work in original state; the finest example we have ever encountered. Modeled on the French Médailles sur les principaux événements du règne de Louis le Grand (Paris: Académie Royale des Médailles et des Inscriptions, 1702), this exquisite work is among the very finest of the outstanding works on medals published during the eighteenth century. Each page depicts the obverse and reverse of a medal, generally at its actual size, with descriptive text and culs-de-lampe. The magnificent portrait frontispiece was engraved by Daniel Berger (1744–1825) following a painting by Pietro Rotari (1707–62). Berger and J.C. Krüger engraved most of the medals (some remain unsigned), while the dédicace is by Berger after Jean Gerin. While the typography and printing may not be up to the very high standards set by the French precedent, Ricaud de Tiregale’s opus remains a beautifully illustrated classic work on medals and a high-point of any numismatic library. Zaandam numismatist P. Smidt van Gelder’s fine collection, featuring Dutch and other European coins and medals, was sold at auction in 1846 and 1847. He was an early owner of this magnificent work and it appears to have remained essentially as it was when it graced his library shelves over a century and a half ago. Engraved armorial ex libris P. Smidt van Gelder; ex Clain-Stefanelli Library; diminutive embossed gilt-printed green label of J. Vinchon et Cie affixed to second front flyleaf, with the firm’s “Compliments” card and handwritten lot number slip [1146] loosely laid in. Arefiev, Belustigungen page 27; Supplementum III, page 2. Clain-Stefanelli 14957. Gromachevskii 289. Ex Kolbe Sale 100, lot 81. Journal of the Russian Numismatic Society

Schubert, Général T.F. de. MONNAYES RUSSES DES DERNIÈRS TROIS SIÈCLES, DEPUIS LE CZAR JOAN WASILIEWICZ GROZNYI JUSQU’À L’EMPEREUR ALEXANDRE II. 1547–1855. Leipsic: Ernst Schäfer, Libraire-Éditeur, 1857. First edition. Two volumes: text and plate atlas. Text: 4to, later tan linen-backed mottled boards; green spine label, gilt. xiv, 331, (1) pages; 1072 descriptions. Atlas: oblong folio [27.5 by 41 cm], full red morocco, decorated in gilt. Title printed in gilt on a blue background; engraved plate of edge designs and legends; 36 additional superbly executed plates of coins printed in relief and in gold, silver and copper tints on a charcoal background. Plate descriptions printed in Russian. Text volume with intermittent light staining. Plate album binding very worn, with boards detached but present; some staining to legend plate; coin plates attractive and near fine. Very rare and most desirable. Feodor Fedorovich Schubert’s monumental work on modern Russian coins is well described in a Journal of the Russian Numismatic Society article by Randolph Zander, as follows: “Schubert published in French, having an eye to a broad European public and intending that his catalogue should serve as a generally accepted standard work. His work was based on his own collection plus the results of study of over 30 major Russian collections, visited repeatedly and researched over a period of 10 years. The format combines scholarly discipline with practical features. Schubert defined his method in these words: ‘In my work I have set myself these conditions: to bring together all that is known up to now on Russian coins, to classify them by reigns, in each reign to classify the coins by types each bearing a consecutive number, and to provide an illustration of the best available specimen of each type, to place under each type number the lesser varieties of the given type—such as date, edge, legend &c, with each such variety assigned a letter following the number: to indicate the references where to coins may be found: and in the case of rare coins the collections which contain them; to show the weight of each gold and silver coin, and to fix a price which a collector might expect to pay for each piece.” There were numerous in-text footnotes, discussing a variety of subjects, and each reign was accompanied by a discussion of its monetary history. There is no question but that the work was far more orderly and forthcoming than Chaudoir’s of the other extant catalogues. It was in this 1857 work, published two years after the death of Nicholas I, that Schubert first ventured to publish, under No 964, his ‘unique’ specimen of the Constantine ruble acquired in confidence a few years earlier from Jacob Reichel who had produced and retained it a generation earlier. He gave currency to the cover story that the piece had been sent to the Grand Duke Constantine (the putative Emperor) in Warsaw for his approval. A striking if not altogether practical feature of the 1857 Catalogue is the bound atlas… On the plates are 2144 embossed images showing the obverse & reverse of the 1072 major numbered types described in the catalogue. The embossed images in relief were produced on Congreve’s Press by means of clichés taken from galvano copies of the coins, many taken from collections other than Schubert’s in order to insure the best example of each type. Bringing these together was a major undertaking in itself. The method of illustration, of which Schubert’s atlas was one of the early examples, had a certain vogue at the time… Given Schubert’s exacting methods of choice of specimens for illustration, the over-all visual effect of each folio page of excellently embossed and metal-colored illustrations is impressive indeed… But if coins can suffer from cabinet friction, think of the havoc wrought by ‘page friction’ if the atlas gets much earnest consultation!” The coin plates in this copy are well-preserved; this sumptuous work represents the zenith of this delightful illustration process pioneered by the Schäfer firm. Brunet 27783. Clain-Stefanelli 11191*. Gromachevskii 395б. Leitzmann 127.

Tolstoï, Graf Iv. Iv. ДРЕВНѢЙШIЯ РУССКIЯ МОНЕТЫ ВЕЛИКАГО КНЯЖЕСТВА КIЕВСКАГО. St. Petersburg, 1882. Folio [40.5 by 29.5 cm], recent antiqued brown quarter morocco with tan linen sides; spine with four raised bands; dark red calf spine label, gilt. (4), ix, (1), 272 pages; engraved lithographic title in sepia; printed title in brown and black; 19 fine photographic and engraved plates (numbered 1–15 and 1a–4a), with facing leaves of descriptive text. Lithographic title a trifle discolored and worn at edges. Old institutional stamps in a few places. Very good. The author’s first and most important work, issued on the 900th anniversary of Russia’s first coinage. Only 100 copies were issued. A classic rarity and the standard work for a century. Count Ivan Ivanovich Tolstoï (1858–1916), was one of the foremost collectors and scholars of his day, and worked closely with his mentor Christian Giel. His works on the earliest Russian coins continue to be of considerable importance to this day. He received the Academy of Science’s prestigious Uvarov medal for this groundbreaking work. The Fall 1984 issue of the Journal of the Russian Numismatic Society includes a good biographical article on Tolstoï. Wündisch 25: “In nur 230 Explaren gedurckt.” Ex Kolbe Sale 79, lot 1304. Clain-Stefanelli 7393*. Grierson 193. Gromachevskii 352б. Tolstoï on Novgorod

Tolstoï, Graf Iv. Iv. РУССКАЯ ДОПЕТРОВСКАЯ НУМИЗМАТИКА. ВЫПУСКЪ ПЕРВЫЙ. МОНЕТЫ ВЕЛИКАГО НОВГОРОДА. St. Petersburg, 1884. Folio [33 by 25 cm], recent tan half calf; spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt; original printed pictorial card covers bound in. iv, xi, (1), 148, (2) pages; title printed in red and black; 413 descriptions; text figures; 7 well-engraved plates of coins. Errata sheet bound in. Fine. A very well-preserved copy of this extremely rare and important work on the pre-Petrine coins of Great Novgorod. Ex Leonidas C. Hermes, with his label on the front cover verso (Kolbe Sale 71, lot 106). Clain-Stefanelli 7394*. Gromachevskii 352г. Tolstoï on Pskov

Tolstoï, Graf Iv. Iv. РУССКАЯ ДОПЕТРОВСКАЯ НУМИЗМАТИКА. ВЫПУСКЪ ВТОРОЙ. МОНЕТЫ ПСКОВСКIЯ. St. Petersburg, 1886. Folio [33 by 25 cm], recent tan half calf; spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt; original printed pictorial card covers bound in. iv, 137, (1) pages; title printed in red and black; 629 descriptions; text figures; 10 well-engraved plates of coins. Original card covers neatly repaired near gutter; marginal staining to first few leaves; plates lightly stained and foxed, but perfectly useable. Very good. The companion volume to the above lot, this second work covers the pre-Petrine coins of Pskov. Also extremely rare and important. Ex Leonidas C. Hermes, with his label on the front cover verso (Kolbe Sale 71, lot 107). Clain-Stefanelli 7394*. Gromachevskii 352г. A Rare Tolstoï Offprint, ex J. Iversen Library.

Spanheim, Ezechiel. DISSERTATIONES DE PRÆSTANTIA ET USU NUMISMATUM ANTIQUORUM. EDITIO NOVA. IN QUA EDITÆ ANTEA DISSERTATIONES RECENSENTUR, MULTISQUE ACCESSIONIBUS LOCUPLETANTUR; ALIÆ NUNC PRIMUM PRODEUNT; SINGULÆ AUTEM SELECTIS INSIGNIUM NUMISMATUM ICONIBUS ILLUSTRANTUR. TOMUS PRIMUS & VOLUMEN ALTERUM. Londini: Impensis Richardi Smith, 1706, and Amstelodami: Apud Rodolph. & Gerhard. Wetstenios, 1717. Two volumes. Folio [46 by 30.5 cm], contemporary brown full calf, boards intricately paneled in blind, with mottled borders and center panels; edges decorated in gilt; spines with seven raised bands, ruled, lettered and lavishly decorated in gilt; page edges speckled in red. (48), 726, (42); (8), xxviii, 656, (52) pages; finely engraved allegorical title in the first volume; titles printed in red and black; superbly engraved frontispiece portrait of the author; superbly engraved portrait of George Augustus, Prince of Wales; finely engraved dedication vignette in the second volume; woodcut initials and tailpieces; coin engravings in the text. Bindings remarkably well-preserved and expertly rebacked. A fine set. An exceptional set of the third, last, and best, edition of this landmark work. Born as an unillustrated quarto in 1664, a greatly expanded and illustrated if still rather modest edition in two parts appeared in 1671. Its apotheosis here, in two oversize folio volumes, was most handsomely executed and, in the present set, bound in raiment worthy of it. Clain-Stefanelli (Numismatics—An Ancient Science) page 24: “one of the most significant names in the field of numismatics in the 17th century [was] Ezechiel Spanheim… His encyclopedic knowledge in history, art, geography, art history—all based on a full mastery of the ancient authors—made him one of the prominent numismatists of his day. His chief publication Dissertatio de praestantia et usu numismatum antiquorum (1664 [first edition]) must certainly be considered the work of a master” Babelon 105: “Ezechiel Spanheim (b. 1629 † 1710) was part of that exceptional group of scholars who came together at Rome under the reign of Queen Christina.” Bassoli 30: “that great work of Ezechiel Spanheim… represent[s] the seventeenth century ‘peak’ of classical numismatics. Spanheim meticulously (and not without digressions) records every image and inscription shown on ancient coins that could be made out.” Hirsch 122. Kress S.2350. Lipsius 376. Ex T. Sharp library, with his diminutive bookplate; ex Phiroze K. Randeria, with his bookplate.

[Christina of Sweden]. Havercamp, Sigebert. NUMMOPHYLACIUM REGINAE CHRISTINAE, QUOD COMPREHENDIT NUMISMATA AEREA IMPERATORUM ROMANORUM, LATINA, GRAECA, ATQUE IN COLONIIS CUSA, QUONDAM A PETRO SANTES BARTOLO… / MEDAILLES DE GRAND ET MOYEN BRONZE DU CABINET DE LA REINE CHRISTINE, FRAPPÉES, TANT PAR ORDRE DU SENAT, QUE PAR LES COLONIES ROMAINES, ET PAR LES VILLES GRECQUES: GRAVÉES AUSSI DÉLICATEMENT, QU’EXACTEMENT D’APRÈS LES ORIGINAUX, PAR LE CELEBRE PETRO SANTES BARTOLO… Hagae Comitum: Apud Petrum de Hondt / La Haye: Chez Pierre de Hondt, 1742. Folio [43.5 by 28.5 cm], contemporary half tan calf and mottled paper boards; spine with five raised bands, ruled and decorated in gilt; two morocco spine labels lettered in gilt; RARE impressed in gilt to spine. (12), 464 pages; facing Latin and French titles printed in red and black with finely engraved vignettes; finely engraved dedication vignette; woodcut initials and headpieces; engraved headpiece depicting coins; 63 engraved plates of ancient Roman coins. Binding worn, with scuff and marks, but sound. Internally fine, with little of the browning sometimes seen. The important catalogue of the collection of Queen Christina of Sweden. The French text is printed in italic type, the Latin text in Roman type. Bartoli (1635–1700), noted painter and engraver, was antiquarian to the Pope and to Queen Christina. The author, Sigebert Havercamp (1684–1741), who also translated the Latin text into French, was professor of Greek at Leiden. He was a well-known classicist, orator and antiquarian. A pleasing example of this scarce and impressive work. Babelon 112. Bassoli 32. Cicognara 2878. Hennin 226. Hirsch 58. Lipsius 178. Strandberg 80–81: “a work of great significance for its time.” Ex Robert Schonwalter, with his bookplate.

[Museo Nazionale di Napoli]. (Fiorelli, Giuseppe). CATALOGO DEL MUSEO NAZIONALE DI NAPOLI. MEDAGLIERE. I. MONETE GRECHE. (PARTE PRIMA). II. MONETE ROMANE. (PARTE SECONDA). III. MONETE DEL MEDIO EVO E MODERNE. [with] COLLEZIONE SANTANGELO. MONETE DEL MEDIO EVO. Napoli, 1867–72. Four volumes. Folio, first three volumes in contemporary tan half morocco with marbled boards; spines with five raised bands, lettered and decorated in gilt; marbled endpapers; original printed card covers bound in. (4), 160; 265–436; (8), 241, (3); (4), 36 pages. Bindings rubbed and a bit worn, but sound. Very good or better. First three volumes ex Edward T. Newell, with his bookplate. Important and rarely offered catalogues. Babelon 165. Clain-Stefanelli 1894. Daehn 1865.

[Saxe-Gotha]. Liebe, Christian Sigismund. GOTHA NUMARIA, SISTENS THESAURI FRIDERICIANI NUMISMATA ANTIQUA AUREA, ARGENTEA, ÆREA, EA RATIONE DESCRIPTA, UT GENERALI EORUM NOTITIÆ EXEMPLA SINGULARIA SUBIUNGANTUR, AUCTORE CHRISTIANO SIGISMUNDO LIEBE. ACCEDUNT EX ANDREÆ MORELLII SPECIMINE UNIVERSÆ REI NUMARIÆ ANTIQUÆ EXCERPTA, & EPISTOLÆ TRES EZ. SPANHEMII, QUIBUS RARIORES EIUSDEM THESAURI NUMI ILLUSTRANTUR. Amstelædami: Apud R. & J. Wetsenios & G. Smith, 1730. First edition. Folio [38 by 25.5 cm], contemporary full vellum; gilt-bordered spine panels lettered in gilt; red-speckled page edges. (14), xxvi, 544, (28) pages; superbly engraved allegorical frontispiece; title printed in red and black with a finely engraved vignette; 12 finely engraved vignettes at the head of each chapter and elsewhere, including the Numismatophylacium Fridericianum (Frederick’s Coin Room); woodcut initials and tailpieces; 316 fine engravings of ancient Greek and Roman coins in the text. Lacking engraved portrait of Frederick II called for. Minor intermittent spotting. Near fine. A massive, quite handsome production, meticulously recording the remarkably fine collection assembled by the princes of Saxe-Gotha. According to Babelon, at the turn of the twentieth century it still “formed the core of the current collection of Gotha.” Bassoli, however, reports that the collection was dispersed at the end of World War II. Babelon 113. Bassoli 32. Clain-Stefanelli (Numismatics—An Ancient Science) page 31: “The little principality of Saxe-Gotha could claim an important collection which had been assembled by its princes. Frederick II (1691–1732) proclaimed that he created this cabinet ‘for the reputation of Our Princely House, and for the good of the public.’” Hennin 218. Hirsch 76. Lipsius 229. Strandberg 103.

Bell, H.W. SARDIS. VOLUME XI: COINS. PART I 1910–1914. Leiden: Publications of the American Society for the Excavation of Sardis, 1916. Folio, later green cloth, gilt. xii, 124 pages; 2 fine plates, one of which primarily depicts Greek coins. Fine. Very scarce. Daehn 498.

Lenormant, Charles, et al. TRÉSOR DE NUMISMATIQUE ET DE GLYPTIQUE… NOUVELLE GALERIE MYTHOLOGIQUE. Paris, 1850. Folio, marbled boards with red title label on front board, gilt; rebacked in black. (4), 154 pages; 52 finely engraved plates, mostly depicting ancient coins. Binding cracked toward front; occasional spotting. Very good or better . The Trésor was the outstanding nineteenth-century contribution to medallic and glyptic art. This enormous, extensively illustrated work has never been approached in concept or scope and, after a century and a half, some sections have yet to be superseded and remain essential sources of information. The plates utilized a new process, perfected in France by Achille Collas. They were engraved with a pantographic ruling machine and, in addition to being of great visual appeal, the illustrations were the most accurate ever achieved. This technical innovation, widely heralded at the time, was, within a few decades, overtaken by photographic printing processes and is relatively little known today. Babelon 143. Engel et Serrure 3973.

Montfaucon, Bernard de. L’ANTIQUITÉ EXPLIQUÉE, ET REPRÉSENTÉE EN FIGURES. Paris, 1719–24. Fourteen of fifteen volumes published [lacking Vol. IV, Part 1]. Folio [43.5 by 28 cm], contemporary full brown calf; spines with six raised bands, decorated in gilt; red morocco lettering pieces; original marbled endpapers to most volumes; red page edges. Titles printed in red and black with engraved printer’s device; outstanding engraved frontispiece depicting Victor-Marie Comte d’Estrées in first volume; finely engraved dédicace; woodcut initials and headpieces. Volumes average 200 pages; over 1000 plates, some folding, some depicting coins. Some bindings well-worn and chipped, others very good or better. Occasional loose pages, though apparently complete. Contents generally very good. An extraordinary work, with exquisite plates and significant numismatic content. Montfaucon (1655–1741) is considered the father of paleography and was a serious scholar whose work contributed much toward the development of the modern discipline of archaeology. Ex Edward Sharp, with his bookplate. Brunet III.1861–1862.

Hill, George F. L’ART DANS LES MONNAIES GRECQUES. PIÈCES CHOISIES, REPRODUITES EN AGRANDISSEMENT ET DÉCRITES. Paris et Bruxelles, 1927. Folio, somewhat later tan cloth, gilt. 65, (3) pages; 64 very fine plates. Near fine. An unusually well-preserved copy of this superb series of 266 enlarged illustrations of artistic Greek coins, printed in duotone collotype and uniformly magnified to a scale of three diameters. Clain-Stefanelli 3558. Daehn 1169.

Lengyel, Lancelot, Jean Babelon and Jacques Yvon. COLLECTION: MAITRES ET ŒUVRES. CHEFS-D’ŒUVRE DES MONNAIES GRECQUES. Montrouge: Éditions Corvina, 1952. Folio. Text in loose signatures within printed card covers; map and plates loose; all as issued housed in the original printed cardboard folding box. 39, (1) pages; map; 48 fine enlarged plates of coins. Fine. A most appealing production, rarely encountered in this state of preservation. Clain-Stefanelli 3562. Daehn 140. Grierson 58.

Imhoof-Blumer, F. CHOIX DE MONNAIES GRECQUES DE LA COLLECTION DE F. IMHOOF-BLUMER. Deuxième édition. Paris and Leipzig: Rollin et Feuardent and Koehler’s Antiquarium, 1883. Folio [35.5 by 27.5 cm], contemporary red cloth, gilt. (6) pages; 9 engraved plates; binder’s leaves added for bulk. Binding a bit worn, with front joint cracking; some annotations; some spotting. Very good or so. A rare supplement to the author’s Monnaies grecques, issued the same year with 9 phototype plates. It publishes coins from Imhoof-Blumer’s own collection. The introduction to the index states: “La table explicative des planches dont la première édition de ce recueil était précédée, est remplacée ici par une simple énumération des 268 pièces gravées, dont chaque numéro est suivi de l’indication de la page et du numéro correspondant des monnaies grecques, où j’ai donné la description de toutes ces monnaies.” Daehn 2062.

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. SAMMLUNG DREER / KLAGENFURT IM LANDESMUSEUM FÜR KÄRNTEN. I. TEIL: ITALIEN–SIZILIEN. Klagenfurt: Geschichtsverein für Kärnten, 1967. First edition. Folio, original cloth-backed printed brown card covers. 12 pages; text illustrations and portraits; 15 fine plates of coins, each with a leaf of facing descriptive text. Near fine. [with] Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. SAMMLUNG DREER / KLAGENFURT IM LANDESMUSEUM FÜR KÄRNTEN. II. TEIL: SPANIEN–GALLIEN. KELTENLÄNDER. Klagenfurt: Landesmuseum für Kärnten, 1984. First edition. Folio, original printed brown card covers. (8) pages; 9 plates of coins, each with a leaf of facing descriptive text. Cloth backing absent. Near fine. [with] Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. SAMMLUNG DREER / KLAGENFURT IM LANDESMUSEUM FÜR KÄRNTEN. III. TEIL: THRACIEN–MACEDONIEN. PÄONIEN. Klagenfurt: Landesmuseum für Kärnten, 1990. First edition. Folio, original cloth-backed printed brown card covers. (8) pages; 27 fine plates of coins, each with a leaf of facing descriptive text. Near fine. All three parts, complete. Clain-Stefanelli 1918*. Daehn 1964. Kroh 15.

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. THE ROYAL COLLECTION OF COINS AND MEDALS, DANISH NATIONAL MUSEUM. Copenhagen, 1942–79. First editions. Forty-two parts, lacking only one volume [36, Syria: Cities] for completion, accompanied by the 2002 Supplement, as follows: 1: ITALY. PART I: ETRURIA–CAMPANIA. 1942. 2: ITALY. PART II: APULIA–LUCANIA: METAPONTUM. 1942. 3: ITALY. PART III: LUCANIA: POSEIDONIA–BRUTTIUM. 1942. 4: SICILY. PART I: ABACAENUM–PETRA. 1942. 5: SICILY. PART II: SEGESTA–SARDINIA. 1942. 6: THRACE. PART I: THE TAURIC CHERSONESE–THRACE: MESEMBRIA. 1942. 7: THRACE. PART II: ODESSUS–SESTUS. ISLANDS, KINGS AND DYNASTS. 1943. 8: MACDEONIA. PART I: ACANTHUS–URANOPOLIS. DYNASTS. 1943. 9: MACEDONIA PART II: ALEXANDER I–ALEXANDER III. 1943. 10: : MACEDONIA PART III: PHILIP III–PHILIP VI. MACEDONIA UNDER THE ROMANS. KINGS OF PAEONIA. 1943. 11: THESSALY–ILLYRICUM. 1943. 12: EPIRUS–ACARNANIA. 1943. 13: AETOLIA–EUBOEA. 1944. 14: ATTICA–AEGINA. 1944. 15: CORINTH. 1944. 16: PHLIASIA–LACONIA. 1944. 17: ARGOLIS–AEGEAN ISLANDS. 1944. 18: BOSPORUS–BITHYNIA. 1944. 19: MYSIA. 1945. 20: TROAS. 1945. 21: AEOLIS–LESBOS. 1945. 22: : IONIA. PART I: CLAZOMENAE–EPHESUS. 1946. 23: IONIA. PART II: ERYTHRAE–PRIENE. 1946. 24: : IONIA. PART III: SMYRNA–TEOS ISLANDS. 1946. 25: CARIA. PART I: ALABANDA–ORTHOSIA. 1947. 26: : CARIA. PART II: SEBASTOPOLIS–TRAPEZOPOULOS. SATRAPS–ISLANDS. 1947. 27: LYDIA. PART I: ACRASAS–SAÏTTA. 1947. 28: LYDIA. PART II: SALA–TRIPOLIS. 1947. 29: : PHRYGIA. PART I: ABBAÏTIS–EUMENEIA. 1948. 30: : PHRYGIA. PART II: GRIMENOTHYRAE–TRAJANOPOLIS. 1948. 31: LYCIA–PAMPHYLIA. 1955. 32: PISIDIA. 1956. 33: LYCAONIA–CILICIA. 1956. 34: : CYPRUS–CAPPADOCIA, UNCERTAIN COINS, IMPERIAL CISTOPHORI. 1955. 35: SYRIA, SELEUCID KINGS. 1959. 37: PHOENICIA. 1961. 38: PALESTINE–CHARACENE. 1961. 39: PARTHIA–INDIA. 1965. 40: EGYPT: THE PTOLEMIES. 1977. 41: ALEXANDRIA-CYRENAICA. 1974. 42: NORTH AFRICA, SYRTICA–MAURETANIA. 1969. 43: SPAIN-GAUL. 1979: SUPPLEMENT. ACQUISITIONS 1942–1996. 2002: Forty-three volumes in all, comprising 625 mostly very fine photographically printed plates of coins accompanied by introductory and descriptive text (the final two volumes were issued with halftone plates). Folio, various bindings (original printed card covers; russet cloth; red cloth; most volumes in contemporary brown quarter calf, gilt); a number of volumes bound more than one per volume. The leatherbound volumes, comprising two-thirds or so of the fascicles, are rather worn, though contents are generally fine or nearly so. The classic SNG set, used constantly throughout the trade. While the halftone reproductions in the 1982 reprint are of decent quality, the original collotype plates are far superior and allow for magnification of detail. Clain-Stefanelli 1912*. Daehn 1982. Grierson 56. Kroh 13 (five stars): “It is the largest and most complete of all SNG’s and it utilized extensively by both scholars and the trade. The coverage is extensive and both the quality of material as well as the research is very good. An astonishing 583 plates illustrate most of the 22,012 coins… Original full sets are very rare...”

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. THE ROYAL COLLECTION OF COINS AND MEDALS, DANISH NATIONAL MUSEUM. VOLUMES ONE–SEVEN: ITALY TO INDIA. Reprint. West Milford: Sunrise Publications, 1981–82. The first thirty-nine fascicules, excellently reproduced and bound in seven volumes. Folio, original matching crimson cloth, gilt. 463 full-page plates of coins with descriptive text, depicting some 20,000 coins. A fine set. Indispensable. Clain-Stefanelli 1912*. Grierson 56. Kroh 13 (five stars): “The coverage is extensive and both the quality of material as well as the research is very good.” Daehn 1982.

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. AARHUS UNIVERSITY, DENMARK. Copenhagen: Publié sous le Patronage de l’Union Académique Internationale, 1986. Folio, original printed light gray card covers. (7) pages; 44 plates of coins, each with a page of facing descriptive text; (1) page. Fine. Daehn 1984. Kroh 15.

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. THE FABRICIUS COLLECTION. AARHUS UNIVERSITY, DENMARK AND THE ROYAL COLLECTION OF COINS AND MEDALS, DANISH NATIONAL MUSEUM, COPENHAGEN. Copenhagen: Publié sous le Patronage de l’Union Académique Internationale, 1987. Folio, original printed light gray card covers. (7) pages; 21 plates of coins, each with a page of facing descriptive text. Fine. Daehn 1985. Kroh 15.

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. FRANCE. BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE. CABINET DES MÉDAILLES. COLLECTION JEAN ET MARIE DELEPIERRE. Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1983. First edition. Folio, original printed tan boards. (9), (21) pages; 88 plates of coins, each with a page of facing descriptive text. Joints cracking, else near fine. [with] Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. FRANCE 2. CABINET DES MÉDAILLES. CILICIE. Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale/Numismatica Ars Classica, 1993. First edition. Tall 4to, original crimson cloth, gilt; jacket. xlviii, (1), (1) pages; 137 plates of coins, each with a page of facing descriptive text; Index Alphabétique laid in. Fine. [with] Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. FRANCE 3. CABINET DES MÉDAILLES. PAMPHYLIE, PISIDIE, LYCAONIE, GALATIE. Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale de la France/Numismatica Ars Classica, 1994. First edition. Tall 4to, original crimson cloth, gilt; jacket. xxxiv, (1), (1) pages; 146 plates of coins, each with a page of facing descriptive text. Fine. [with] Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. FRANCE 4. DÉPARTEMENT DES MONNAIES, MÉDAILLES ET ANTIQUES. ALEXANDRIE I. AUGUSTE–TRAJAN. Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale de France/Numismatica Ars Classica, 1998. First edition. Tall 4to, original crimson cloth, gilt; jacket. xxxii, (1), (1) pages; 105 plates of coins, each with a page of facing descriptive text. Fine. [with] Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. FRANCE 5. DÉPARTEMENT DES MONNAIES, MÉDAILLES ET ANTIQUES. MYSIE. Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale de France/Numismatica Ars Classica, 2001. First edition. Tall 4to, original crimson cloth, gilt; jacket. xl, (1), (1) pages; 136 plates of coins, each with a page of facing descriptive text. Fine. [with] Sylloge Nummorum Græcorum. FRANCE 6,1. DÉPARTEMENT DES MONNAIES, MÉDAILLES ET ANTIQUES. ITALIE. ÉTRURIE–CALABRE. Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale de France/Numismatica Ars Classica, 2003. First edition. Tall 4to, original crimson cloth, gilt; jacket. lxxi, (1), lxxii–xci pages; 141 plates of coins, each with a page of facing descriptive text. Fine. All six volumes published. The SNG France volumes are among the best in terms of technical production. The first volume is rarely encountered in nice condition. France 2 includes one of the finest collections of the coins of Cilicia. Daehn 1987. Kroh pages 13–14.

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. DEUTSCHLAND. SAMMLUNG V. AULOCK. 1.–18. HEFT. Berlin 1957–68. First edition. Eighteen volumes complete, as follows: 1: HEFT: PONTUS. PAPHLAGONIEN. BITHYNIEN. NR. 1–332. 1957. 2: HEFT: PONTUS. PAPHLAGONIEN. BITHYNIEN. NR. 333–676. 1957. 3: HEFT: PONTUS. PAPHLAGONIEN. BITHYNIEN. NR. 677–1049. 1957. 4: HEFT: MYSIEN. NR. 1050–1438. 1957. 5: HEFT: TROAS. AEOLIS. LESBOS. NR. 1439–1767. 1959. 6: HEFT: IONIEN. NR. 1768–2333. 1960. 7: HEFT: KARIEN. NR. 2334–2867. 1962. 8: HEFT: LYDIEN. NR. 2868–3328. 1963. 9: HEFT: PHRYGIEN. NR. 3329–4040. 1964. 10: HEFT: LYKIEN. NR. 4041–4476. 1964. 11: HEFT: PAMPHYLIEN. NR. 4477–4893. 1965. 12: HEFT: PISIDIEN. LYKAONIEN. ISAURIEN. NR. 4894–5412. 1964. 13: HEFT: KILIKIEN. NR. 5413–6098. 1966. 14: HEFT: GALATIEN. KAPPADOKIEN. KAISERZEITLICHE KISTOPHOREN. POSTUME LYSIMACHUS- UND ALEXANDER-TETRADRACHMEN. INCERTI. NR. 6099–6673. 1967. 15: HEFT: NACHTRÄGE I. PONTUS. PAPHLAGONIEN. BITHYNIEN. NR. 6674–7190. 1967. 16: HEFT: NACHTRÄGE II. MYSIEN. TROAS. AEOLIS. LESBOS. NR. 7191–7758. 1967. 17: HEFT: NACHTRÄGE III. IONIEN. KARIEN. LYDIEN. NR. 7759–8298. 1968. 18: HEFT: NACHTRÄGE IV. PHRYGIEN. LYKIEN. PAMPHYLIEN. PISIDIEN. LYKAONIEN. ISAURIEN. KILIKIEN. GALATIEN. KAPPADOKIEN. KAISERZEITL. KISTOPHOREN. INCERTI. NR. 8299–8739. 1968: Folio, original matching brown card covers. 304 very fine photographically printed plates depicting 8739 ancient Greek coins from Asia Minor accompanied by introductory and descriptive text. Generally fine. The rarely offered original editions, with superior plates. Clain-Stefanelli 1914*. Daehn 1988. Grierson 56. Kroh 13 (five stars): “concentrates solely on the Greek and Greek Imperial coinage of Asia Minor. The scholarship utilized is excellent and this is universally recognized as the ultimate reference for this series. 8,739 coins are illustrated on 304 plates, with a very good German text. These coins were afterwards dispersed through the trade and are usually offered only at auction. Original sets of this SNG are very rare...”

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. DEUTSCHLAND. STAATLICHE MÜNZSAMMLUNG MÜNCHEN. 1. HEFT: HISPANIA. 1–341. GALLIA NARBONENSIS. 342–432. Berlin: Verlag Gebr. Mann, 1968. (11), (1) pages; 17 plates of coins, each with a page of facing descriptive text. [with] 2. HEFT: ETRURIA. 1–44. UMBRIA. 45–76. PICENUM. 77–92. LATIUM. 93–110. SAMNIUM. 111–120. FRENTANI. 121–129. CAMPANIA. 130–431. APULIA. 432–551. Berlin: Verlag Gebr. Mann, 1970. (5), (1) pages; 20 plates of coins, each with a page of facing descriptive text. [with] 3. HEFT: KALABRIEN. 552–801. LUKANIEN. 802–1237. Berlin: Verlag Gebr. Mann, 1973. (5), (1) pages; 21 plates of coins, each with a page of facing descriptive text. [with] 4. HEFT: BRUTTIUM. 1238–1759. KARTHAGER IN ITALIEN. 1760–1766. Berlin: Verlag Gebr. Mann, 1974. (5), (1) pages; 15 plates of coins, each with a page of facing descriptive text. [with] 5. HEFT: SIKELIA. 1–872. Berlin: Verlag Gebr. Mann, 1977. (5), (1) pages; 25 plates of coins, each with a page of facing descriptive text. [with] 6. HEFT: SIKELIA. NR. 873–1670. PUNIER IN SIZILIEN. NR. 1589–1662. LIPARA. NR. 1671–1694. SARDINIA. NR. 1695–1755. PUNIER IN SARDINIEN. NR. 1695–1749. NACHTRÄGE. 1756–1774. Berlin: Verlag Gebr. Mann, 1980. (5), (1) pages; 26 plates of coins, each with a page of facing descriptive text. [with] 7. HEFT: TAURISCHE CHERSONES. NR. 1–62. SARMATIEN. NR. 63–106. DACIA. NR. 107–129. MOESIA SUPERIOR. NR. 130–277. MOESIA INFERIOR. NR. 228–512. Berlin: Verlag Gebr. Mann, 1985. (5), (1) pages; 20 plates of coins, each with a page of facing descriptive text. [with] 10./11. HEFT: MAKEDONIEN: KÖNIGE. NR. 1–1228. Berlin: Verlag Gebr. Mann, 2001. (8) pages; 52 plates of coins, each with a page of facing descriptive text. [with] 12. HEFT: THESSALIEN, ILLYRIEN, EPIRUS, KORKYRA NR. 1–701. Baalsdorf, 2007. (10) pages; 36 plates of coins, each with a page of facing descriptive text. [with] 14. HEFT: ATTIKA, MEGARIS, ÄGINA. NR. 1–601 (IN ENGLISCHER SPRACHE). Berlin: Verlag Gebr. Mann, 2002. (5), (1) pages; 21 plates of coins, each with a page of facing descriptive text. [with] 19. HEFT: TROAS–LESBOS. NR. 1–813. Berlin: Verlag Gebr. Mann, 1991. (5), (1) pages; 29 plates of coins, each with a page of facing descriptive text. [with] 20. HEFT: IONIEN. 1 NR. 1–882. Berlin: Verlag Gebr. Mann, 1995. (7), (1) pages; 29 plates of coins, each with a page of facing descriptive text. [with] 22. HEFT: KARIEN. NR. 1–714. Baalsdorf, 2006. (6) pages, 36 plates of coins, each with a page of facing descriptive text. [with] 23. HEFT: LYDIEN. NR. 1–815. Berlin: Verlag Gebr. Mann, 1997. (7), (1) pages; 35 plates of coins, each with a page of facing descriptive text. [with] 24. HEFT: PHRYGIEN. NR. 1–507. Berlin: Verlag Gebr. Mann, 1989. (5), (1) pages; 21 plates of coins, each with a page of facing descriptive text. [with] 28. HEFT: SYRIEN: NICHT-KÖNIGLICHE PRÄGUNGEN. NR. 1–1066. Berlin: Verlag Gebr. Mann, 2001. (7), (1) pages; 46 plates of coins, each with a page of facing descriptive text. Sixteen volumes. Folio, original printed card covers. Fine copies. All sixteen fascicles so far published of this extensive SNG series. Clain-Stefanelli 1915*. Daehn 1989. Kroh 13 (four stars).

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. VOLUME I, PART I: THE COLLECTION OF CAPT. E.G. SPENCER-CHURCHILL, M.C., OF NORTHWICK PARK. THE SALTING COLLECTION IN THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM. First edition. London: Published for the British Academy, 1931. Folio, original brown printed card covers. (4), (1) pages; 8 fine plates of coins, each with a leaf of facing descriptive text. Fine. The first SNG volume published. Infrequently offered. Clain-Stefanelli 1913*. Daehn 1968.

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. VOLUME I: PART II. THE NEWNHAM DAVIS COINS IN THE WILSON COLLECTION OF CLASSICAL AND EASTERN ANTIQUITIES, MARISCHAL COLLEGE, ABERDEEN. First edition. London: Published for the British Academy, 1936. Folio, original brown printed card covers. (4), (1) pages; 14 fine plates of coins, each with a leaf of facing descriptive text. Text block detached from spine. Very good. Clain-Stefanelli 1913*. Daehn 1968.

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. VOLUME II: THE LLOYD COLLECTION. PARTS I–II: ETRURIA TO THURIUM. PARTS III–IV: VELIA TO ERYX. PARTS V–VI: GALARIA TO SELINUS. PARTS VII–VIII: SYRACUSE TO LIPARA. First edition. London: Published for the British Academy, 1933–37. Eight parts in four volumes (as published), complete. Folio, original matching brown card covers. 59 fine plates depicting 1687 coins, accompanied by introductory and descriptive text. Fine. Clain-Stefanelli 1913*. Daehn 1969. Kroh 14: “The Lloyd Collection is limited to the precious-metal coins of Italy and Sicily.... The 49 (sic) collotype plates illustrate 1,687 coins which are remarkable for their quality and variety. ... Originals of this SNG are of course rare.”

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. VOLUME III: THE LOCKETT COLLECTION. PART I: SPAIN–ITALY. (GOLD AND SILVER). PART II: SICILY–THRACE. (GOLD AND SILVER). PART III: MACEDONIA–AEGINA. (GOLD AND SILVER). PART IV: PELOPONNESE–AEOLIS. (GOLD AND SILVER) PART V: LESBOS–CYRENAICA: ADDENDA. (GOLD AND SILVER). London: Published for the British Academy, 1938–49. First editions. Five volumes, complete. Folio, original printed brown card covers. 64 fine plates depicting 3542 coins, accompanied by introductory and descriptive text. Fine. Clain-Stefanelli 1913*. Daehn 1970. Kroh 13 (four stars): “This was a private collection and the quality is very good with the scope focused on artistic style.”

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. VOLUME IV: FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM: LEAKE AND GENERAL COLLECTIONS. PART I: SPAIN (EMPORIA, RHODA)–ITALY. PART II: SICILY–THRACE. PART III: MACEDONIA–ACARNANIA. PART IV: ACARNANIA–PHLIASIA. PART V: SICYON–THERA. PART VI: ASIA MINOR–PHRYGIA. PART VII: ASIA MINOR: LYCIA–CAPPADOCIA. PART VIII: SYRIA–NABATHAEA. London: Published for the British Academy, 1940–71. First editions. Eight volumes, complete. Folio, first seven parts in the original printed card covers, eighth part in the original cloth-backed boards. 136 fine plates depicting 6125 coins, accompanied by introductory and descriptive text. Three volumes with worn covers. Generally Near fine. Clain-Stefanelli 1913*. Daehn 1971. Kroh 14.

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. VOLUME V: ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM, EVANS COLLECTION. PART I: ITALY. PART I (A). ITALY. ETRURIA–LUCANIA (THURIUM). PART II: ITALY: LUCANIA (THURIUM)-BRUTTIUM. SICILY. CARTHAGE. PART III: MACEDONIA. PART IV: PAEONIA–THESSALY (NOS. 3313–3934). London: Published for the British Academy, 1951–81. First editions. 90 fine plates of coins, each with a leaf of facing descriptive text. Folio, original printed brown card covers or cloth-backed boards. Generally fine. [with] Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. VOLUME V: ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM. OXFORD. PART IX: BOSPORUS–AEOLIS. Oxford: Published for the British Academy, 2007. First edition. 4to, original russet cloth, gilt. (10) pages; 59 plates, each with a page of facing descriptive text. Fine. Six volumes in all. Part I is seldom offered. Clain-Stefanelli 1913*. Daehn 1972. Kroh 14.

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. SWEDEN. I: THE COLLECTION OF HIS LATE MAJESTY KING GUSTAF VI ADOLF. THE FRED FORBAT COLLECTION. Stockholm: Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, 1974. Folio, original printed brown card covers. 49, (3), pages; including 19 plates of coins, each with a page of facing descriptive text. Fine. [with] Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. SWEDEN. I:2. SAMMLUNG ERIC VON POST. Stockholm: Kungl. Myntkabinettet, 1995. Tall 4to, original green cloth, gilt. (3), (5) pages; 33 plates of coins, each with a page of facing descriptive text. Fine. [with] Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. SWEDEN II. THE COLLECTION OF THE ROYAL COIN CABINET NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MONETARY HISTORY STOCKHOLM. PART I: GALLIA–SICILY. Stockholm: Royal Academy of Letters History and Antiquities, 1976. Folio, original printed brown card covers. 46, (2) pages, including 19 plates of coins, each with a page of facing descriptive text. Fine. [with] Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. SWEDEN II. THE COLLECTION OF THE ROYAL COIN CABINET NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MONETARY HISTORY STOCKHOLM. PART 2: THRACE–EUBOIA. Stockholm: Royal Academy of Letters History and Antiquities, 1980. Folio, original printed brown boards. 47, (1) pages, including 20 plates of coins, each with a page of facing descriptive text. Fine. [with] Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. SWEDEN II. THE COLLECTION OF THE ROYAL COIN CABINET NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MONETARY HISTORY STOCKHOLM. PART 3: ATTICA–LESBOS. Stockholm: Royal Academy of Letters History and Antiquities, 1991. Tall 4to, original russet cloth, gilt. (3), (3) pages; 33 plates of coins, each with a page of facing descriptive text. Fine. [with] Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. SWEDEN II. THE COLLECTION OF THE ROYAL COIN CABINET NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MONETARY HISTORY STOCKHOLM. PART 6: THE G.D. LORICHS COLLECTION. Stockholm: Royal Academy of Letters History and Antiquities, 2003. Tall 4to, original printed russet cloth, gilt. (7), (5) pages; portrait of Lorichs; 113 plates of coins, each with a page of facing descriptive text. Errata slip laid in. Fine. All six volumes published of the Swedish SNG. Clain-Stefanelli 1920* and 1921*. Daehn 2008–09. Kroh 14.

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. THE COLLECTION OF THE AMERICAN NUMISMATIC SOCIETY. PARTS 1–9. New York: The American Numismatic Society, 1969–98. First edition. Nine volumes complete, as follows: PART I: ETRURIA–CALABRIA. 1969. PART 2: LUCANIA. 1972. PART 3: BRUTTIUM-SICILY I: ABACAENUM–ERYX. 1975. PART 4: SICILY II: GALARIA–STYELLA. 1977. PART 5: SICILY III: SYRACUSE–SICELIOTES. 1988. PART 6: PALESTINE–SOUTH ARABIA. 1981. PART 7: MACEDONIA I: CITIES, THRACO-MACEDONIAN TRIBES, PAEONIAN KINGS. 1987. PART 8: MACEDONIA II: ALEXANDER I–PHILIP II. 1994. PART 9: GRAECO-BACTRIAN AND INDO-GREEK COINS. 1998. Nine folio or quarto volumes, comprising 388 fine plates depicting 11,991 coins, accompanied by introductory and descriptive text. Parts 1–6 in folio; Parts 7–9 in quarto. Parts 1–3 in the original printed russet card covers; Parts 4–5 in the original printed russet boards; Part 6 in the infrequently seen original printed white linen variant; Parts 7–9 in the original russet cloth, gilt. A fine set. Clain-Stefanelli 1917* (Parts 1–5). Daehn 1962. Kroh 13 (four stars): “This collection is one of the best in the world and both the scope and scholarship of these volumes are excellent.”

Muret, Ernest, and M.A. Chabouillet. CATALOGUE DES MONNAIES GAULOISES DE LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE. Paris, 1889. Large 4to, contemporary brown morocco with marbled boards; spine ruled and lettered in gilt; all pages edges marbled. xxvii, (1), 327 (1) pages. Binding a touch worn, with spine label; interiors fine. [with] La Tour, Henri de. ATLAS DE MONNAIES GAULOISES, PRÉPARÉ PAR LA COMMISSION DE TOPOGRAPHIE DES GAULES ET PUBLIÉ SOUS LES AUSPICES DU MINISTÈRE DE L’INSTRUCTION PUBLIQUE. Paris, 1892. Folio [38 by 28 cm], handsomely bound in contemporary red quarter morocco with marbled sides; spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers. (4), iv, (2), 12 pages; 55 handsome plates of coins, engraved by Dardel. Binding a bit rubbed; plates remarkably fresh and free of the usual spotting. Near fine. An unusually nice set of the text and well-engraved plates recording this exceptional collection. Rarely offered together. Babelon 149: “Henri de la Tour’s Atlas de monnaies gauloises… an indispensable guide to the coins of Gaul, has as its corollary the Catalogue des monnaies gauloises de la Bibliothèque nationale written by Ernest Muret and completed and published after his death by Chabouillet and La Tour.” Clain-Stefanelli 5144 and 5139*. Daehn 2584 and 2542. Grierson 95.

Breglia, Laura. DUE TESORETTI DI MONETE GRECHE DELLA MAGNA GRECIA. Napoli, 1939. Folio, original printed card covers. 76 pages; 2 plates. Covers and spine worn; very good or so. Rarely encountered.

Carelli, Francisco. NUMMORUM VETERUM ITALIAE, QUOS IPSE COLLEGIT, ET ORDINE GEOGRAPHICO DISPOSUIT DESCRIPTIO. Neapoli, 1812. (4), 152 pages; 200 finely engraved plates of coins, some folding. [bound with] (Avellinius, Franciscus M.). NUMORUM VETERUM ITALIAE DESCRIPTIONEM ADNOTATIONES ACCESSIT DE NEAPOLITANORUM NUMO ANECDOTO EPISTOLA AD CL. V. NIEBUHRIUM. Neapoli, 1834. (4), 20 pages; 1 alphabet plate. Folio, later brown half cloth and mottled boards, gilt. Signed by Hermann Weber on the opening blank. Small spine label from private library. Fine. Hermann Weber’s copy of this rare and extraordinary work, of which only 100 copies were printed for private circulation. The 1834 supplement by Franciscus M. Avellinius, bound in with this copy, makes the text equally complete with that of the 1850 edition. The most extensive collection of the coins of Magna Graecia formed up to that time, including many coins unknown to Mionnet and other eminent numismatists of the era. Babelon 131. Brunet 29830 note. Graesse 46. Leitzmann 19. Mommsen (Histoire de la monnaie romaine, IV): “Ce catalogue d’une collection remarquable et exceptionellement riche, surtout en monnaies de l’Italie meridionale, est fait avec soin de donne tous les poids, meme ceux des monnaies de cuivre. La collection Carelli est aujord’hui en Musée de Naples.”

Garrucci, P. Raffaele. LE MONETE DELL’ITALIA ANTICA. RACCOLTA GENERALE. PARTE PRIMA: MONETE FUSE. PARTE SECONDA: MONETE CONIATE. Roma: Coi Tipi Cav. V. Salviucci, 1885. Two volumes. Folio [37 by 29 cm], recent blue cloth, gilt. (4), 41, (1); (4), (43)–188; (2) pages; 125 engraved plates. Minor text discoloration, else fine. Rare. Clain-Stefanelli 2043: “An old but still useful collection of material.” Daehn 2655.

Magnan, P. Domenico. BRUTTIA NUMISMATICA, SEU BRUTTIÆ, HODIÈ CALABRIÆ, POPULORUM NUMISMATA OMNIA, IN VARIIS PER EUROPAM NUMMOPHYLACIIS ACCURATÈ DESCRIPTA, NEC NON ALIQUA ALIA EX IAM EDITIS DEPROMPTA. Romæ: Apud Archangelum Casaletti Typographum, Et Josephum Monaldini Bibliopolam, 1773. Folio [45.5 by 30 cm], original paper boards. xii pages; title within a finely engraved border; text within a woodcut border; 124 engraved plates comprised of a finely engraved map of Bruttia and an engraved size chart (on 1 leaf), and 122 finely engraved plates of coins (on 49 leaves), the final leaf of coin plates serving as a frontispiece. Printed throughout on thick stock. Binding a bit worn and discolored but sound, a negligible stain at the inner bottom margin of most leaves. A pleasing unsophisticated example. Near fine. Ex the Collection of William P. Palmer, Western Reserve Historical Society, with its engraved bookplate. Apparently very rare, as are Magnani’s other specialized numismatic works published in the 1770s. It was a major illustrated contribution to the numismatics of the Greek provinces of southern Italy. Ex Kolbe Sale 102, lot 117. Babelon 120. Brunet 29833. Cicognara 2915. Lipsius 242.

Ravel, Oscar E. DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF TARENTINE COINS FORMED BY M.P. VLASTO. First edition. London: Spink, 1947. Small folio, contemporary green cloth-backed boards, gilt. xi, (1), 195, (1) pages; frontispiece; portrait plate; 53 fine phototype plates of coins. Binding a bit worn; one plate bound on wrong side; very good or better. Scarce. Clain-Stefanelli 2140*. Daehn 2856: “The catalogue of Michel P. Vlasto’s collection of the coinage of Tarentum, the most complete collection of this coinage ever formed.” Grierson 64. Kroh 17 (5 stars): “the standard reference for these as it contains nearly all known types in spectacular condition (and most were dispersed through the marketplace).”