HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE WILLIAM A. BURD LIBRARY: ANCIENT NUMISMATICS

Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers will be offering highlights from the outstanding numismatic library formed by Chicagoan William A. Burd in our 2018 New York Book Auction, which will be heldin conjunction with the New York International Numismatic Convention on Saturday, January 13, 2018 at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Manhattan.

We have been working on the catalogue for the auction for some time now, and wanted to give readers a small preview of what they have to look forward to. The following are some highlights from theBurd Library's offerings of material on ancient coins:

Lot 22: a lovely copy of Boehringer on Syracuse

Lot 39: a beautifully bound original set of Delgado on ancient coins of the Iberian peninsula

Lot 47: the first edition of the first printed book substantially illustrating coins & medals, Fulvio's 1517 Illustrium Imagines (celebrating its 500th anniversary on November 15!)

Lot 72: a bound set of the extremely rare engraved plates depicting Louis XIV's collection of ancient coins

Lot 101: over 100 volumes of the Numismatic Chronicle

Lot 115: an exceptional set of Spink's Numismatic Circular

Lot 116: Hans von Fritz's inscribed set of Svoronos on the Ptolemies

Lot 118: Svoronos and Pick's Les Monnaies d'Athènes

Lot 119: an original set of the Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum series on the Royal Danish collection at Copenhagen

Lot 131: an exceptional, complete set of Visconti & Mongez's truly monumental Iconographie Grecque et Romaine

Later press releases will cover highlights from the Burd Library's books on foreign and American numismatics. The online catalogue for our New York Book Auction will be available by the end of themonth. Printed catalogues will be available in December.

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