Kolbe & Fanning Holds 2017 New York Book Auction
Kolbe & Fanning held our 2017 New York Book Auction on Saturday, January 14, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. Conducted in conjunction with the 2017 New York International Numismatic Convention, the sale featured selections from the libraries of Italo Vecchi and Tom Cederlind, along with other works on ancient, foreign and U.S. numismatics. The 400-lot sale saw spirited bidding on a number of highly desirable items and drew bidders from around the world.

Some highlights included (all prices given below are hammer prices):

Lot 391, Raphael Thian's extraordinary Currency of the Confederate States of America, illustrated with nearly 300 examples of Confederate currency, sold for $35,000. Lot 112, a lovely complete set of the Collection R. Jameson, brought $4250.

Lot 6, a complete set of the classic Naville/Ars Classica sales catalogued by Jacob Hirsch, brought $3750.

Lot 173, a very nice copy of the enormously important Montagu sale of Roman and Byzantine gold coins, brought $3750 on a $1500 estimate.

Lot 106, a charming copy of the 1525 first edition of the second substantially illustrated numismatic book (Huttich's Imperatorum Romanorum Libellus) brought $2400 on a $1500 estimate.

Lot 172, a priced copy of the important sale of Roman and Byzantine coins belonging to the Vicomte de Ponton d'Amécourt, with 37 very fine plates, brought $2000, exactly twice its estimate.

Lot 325, one of only eleven copies prepared of an important catalogue of the Vatican collection of Chinese coins, brought strong bidding and sold for $1600 on a $1000 estimate.

Lot 331, rare issues of Plain Talk, the nascent ANA's semi-official publication, brought $1500 on a $750 estimate.

Lot 197, a copy of Domenico Sestini's rare Descriptio Numorum Veterum (1796) sold for $1400 on a $250 estimate.

Lot 25, a rare hardcover edition of the memorial volume prepared in honor of Ernst Justus Haeberlin by Max von Bahrfeldt brought $1200 on a $500 estimate.

The prices realized list can be downloaded from the Kolbe & Fanning website at numislit.com. We thank all those who participated in the sale for making it such a special event. Additional material from the Vecchi and Cederlind libraries will be included in our next sale.

For more information, see the earlier E-Sylum articles:
KOLBE & FANNING'S 2017 NEW YORK BOOK AUCTION(www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v19n49a03.html)
KOLBE & FANNING OFFER THIAN CONFEDERATE CURRENCY ALBUM(www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v19n50a02.html)
MORE KOLBE & FANNING'S 2017 NEW YORK HIGHLIGHTS(www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v19n51a02.html)