HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE WILLIAM A. BURD LIBRARY: WORLD 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.

The catalogue has been sent to the printers, and we wanted to give readers a small preview of what they have to look forward to. The following are some highlights from the Burd Library's offeringsof material on world coins:

Lot 135: the rare first issue of the magnificent 1702 first edition of Médailles sur les principaux événements du règne de Louis le Grand, with the suppressed Préface

Lot 140: the extraordinary Numismata Virorum Illustrium ex Barbadica Gente of 1732, with the very rare 1760 supplement

Lot 161: the Coats Family's large-paper set of Burns on The Coinage of Scotland (1887)

Lot 174: Les Médaillons de David d'Angers (1867), one of the earliest extensive uses of photography in a numismatic book

Lot 184: a regal set of Duby's rare works on obsidional and French feudal coins (1786 & 1790), in exceptional armorial bindings of Louis XVI

Lot 197: Pietro Antonio Gaetani's 1761-1763 folio catalogue of Count Giovanni Maria Mazzuchelli's magnificent collection of medals

Lots 221 & 222: original Dutch and French sets of Van Loon's foundational work on Dutch medals

Lot 268: a superb example of Ricaud de Tiregale's masterwork on Russian medals

Lot 298: the Clain-Stefanellis' original set of Corpus Nummorum Italicorum.

A number of other wonderful publications could be listed above. Included in the sale, for instance, are no fewer than eight first edition numismatic works by José Toribio Medina, many additionalvolumes on medals, a variety of compilations on seals, and important books on Chinese coins and paper money. Selected highlights from the North American segment of the Burd Library will be revealednext week.

The online catalogue for our New York Book Auction should be available by the end of the month. Printed catalogues will be available in December.

Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers are a licensed auction firm specializing in the sale of rare and out-of-print numismatic literature. We also sell new and secondhand numismatic books on aretail basis through our website at numislit.com. To subscribe to our email list, please see numislit.com or contactDavid Fanning at df@numislit.com.

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
BURD LIBRARY HIGHLIGHTS: ANCIENT NUMISMATICS (http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/esylum_v20n46a02.html)