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Kolbe and Fanning Numismatic Booksellers: Numismatic Library of Sydney F. Martin

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Auction Name Numismatic Library of Sydney F. Martin Total Sales (USD) 626,826.00
Auction Date April 30, 2022 - April 30, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 217,970.00
Sale Number #163 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 217,970.00
Total Lots 470
Sold Lots 431 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 229,460.00
% of Lots Sold 91.70% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 229,460.00
Unsold Lots 39 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 273.17%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
64 Breen, Walter.

WALTER BREEN’S COMPLETE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF U.S.

USD 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 45,000.00
270 Miller, Henry C., and Hillyer Ryder.

THE STATE COINAGES OF NEW ENGLAND: THE STATE COINAGE OF CONNECTICUT. THE COLONIAL COINS OF VERMONT. THE COPPER COINS OF MASSACHUSETTS.

1920 USD 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 33,000.00
138 Crosby, Sylvester S.

THE EARLY COINS OF AMERICA; AND THE LAWS GOVERNING THEIR ISSUE. COMPRISING ALSO DESCRIPTIONS OF THE WASHINGTON PIECES, THE ANGLO-AMERICAN TOKENS, MANY PIECES OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN, OF THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES, AND THE FIRST PATTERNS OF THE UNI

 1875 USD 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 16,800.00
264 Mehl, B. Max [publisher].

MEHL’S NUMISMATIC MONTHLY. Volumes I–X

1908–1919 USD 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 USD 16,800.00
36 Bolender, M.H.

THE UNITED STATES EARLY SILVER DOLLARS FROM 1794 TO 1803.

1950 USD 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 15,600.00
63 Breen, Walter.

WALTER BREEN’S COMPLETE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF U.S.

USD 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 13,200.00
77 Browning, A.W.

THE EARLY QUARTER DOLLARS OF THE UNITED STATES 1796–1838. WITH A FEW REMARKS CONCERNING THEIR TYPES, VARIETIES AND RARITY. ILLUSTRATED ON EIGHT PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES.

1925 USD 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 13,200.00
12 [American Numismatic Society] American Numismatic & Archæological Society; Boston Numismatic Society; American Numismatic Society.

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NUMISMATICS. Volumes I–LIII

1866–1924 USD 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 12,000.00
131 Colonial Newsletter Foundation.

THE COLONIAL NEWSLETTER. Volumes 1–57, Serial Nos. 1–165

 1960–2017 USD 2,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 12,000.00
158 Early American Coppers.

PENNY-WISE. Volumes 1–50

 1967–2016 USD 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 11,400.00
60 Breen, Walter, and Kenneth E. Bressett.

WORKING NOTES—VERMONT COINAGE.

USD 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 10,200.00
161 Elder, Thomas L.

CATALOGUE OF THE EIGHTEENTH PUBLIC AUCTION SALE OF A SPLENDID COLLECTION OF AMERICAN AND ENGLISH COINS, THE PROPERTY OF PETER GSCHWEND, ESQ. OF PITTSBURGH, PENNA.

1908 USD 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 10,200.00
257 Mease, James.

DESCRIPTION OF SOME OF THE MEDALS STRUCK IN RELATION TO IMPORTANT EVENTS IN NORTH AMERICA.

USD 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 10,200.00
299 Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Montreal.

THE CANADIAN ANTIQUARIAN AND NUMISMATIC JOURNAL.

1872–86 USD 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 10,200.00
117 Colonial Coin Collectors Club.

THE C4 NEWSLETTER. Volumes 1–25

 1993–2017. USD 2,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 9,600.00
40 Bowers, Q. David.

UNTITLED MANUSCRIPT FOR UNPUBLISHED BOOK ON AMERICAN COLONIAL COINS.

c. USD 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 USD 7,800.00
141 Crosby, Sylvester S.

THE EARLY COINS OF AMERICA; AND THE LAWS GOVERNING THEIR ISSUE. COMPRISING ALSO DESCRIPTIONS OF THE WASHINGTON PIECES, THE ANGLO-AMERICAN TOKENS, MANY PIECES OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN, OF THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES, AND THE FIRST PATTERNS OF THE UNI

 1878 USD 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 7,800.00
251 Mason & Wells and Mason & Co. [publishers].

MASON’S COIN AND STAMP COLLECTORS’ MAGAZINE. Volumes I–VI

1867–1872 USD 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 USD 7,200.00
271 Miller, Henry C., and Hillyer Ryder.

THE STATE COINAGES OF NEW ENGLAND: THE STATE COINAGE OF CONNECTICUT. THE COLONIAL COINS OF VERMONT. THE COPPER COINS OF MASSACHUSETTS.

1920 USD 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 7,200.00
294 Noe, Sydney P.

THE NEW ENGLAND AND WILLOW TREE COINAGES OF MASSACHUSETTS.

1943 USD 400.00 - 400.00 USD 7,200.00
14 [American Numismatic Society] American Numismatic & Archæological Society; American Numismatic Society.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN NUMISMATIC AND ARCHÆOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK... / PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN NUMISMATIC SOCIETY...

1878–1907. USD 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 6,600.00
95 Chapman, S.H. & H.

CATALOGUE OF THE MAGNIFICENT COLLECTION OF COINS OF THE UNITED STATES FORMED BY THE LATE HARLAN P. SMITH, ESQ, NEW YORK CITY.

1906 USD 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 USD 6,600.00
100 Chapman, Henry.

CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF AMERICAN COLONIAL COINS FORMED BY GEORGE J. BASCOM, ESQ., NEW YORK CITY, AND THE COLLECTION OF UNITED STATES COINS OF WILLIAM F. BROWN, ESQ., SPRINGFIELD, OHIO.

1915 USD 2,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 6,600.00
266 Merkin, Lester.

NUMISMATIC AUCTION CATALOGUES.

1964–1976. USD 600.00 - 600.00 USD 5,700.00
57 Breen, Walter.

THE STEPNEY HOARD.

USD 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,400.00
  • Sotheby’s
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  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
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    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
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  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
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    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
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    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
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    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
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    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
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