Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers will be holding our next auction on Saturday, May 31, 2025. Featuring the second half of the L.D. & I.P. Library and additional selections from the library of Barry Tayman, the sale includes rare and out-of-print works on ancient, world and U.S. numismatics. The 500 lots offer something for everybody, with books from the 17th through the 21st century.

Some highlights of this first sale include:

Lot 32: a photographic record of the magnificent collection of Roman gold coins and medallions formed by Leo Biaggi de Blasys

Lot 223: all three folio volumes of Ennio Visconti's incomparable ancient Greek iconography, including a vast array of exquisitely engraved illustrations of ancient coins

Lot 150: Giuseppe Mazzini's Monete imperiali romane, edited by Mario Ratto and published between 1957 and 1958, describing and illustrating over 8000 coins on 531 plates

Lot 177: a complete offering of P. & P. Santamaria's extraordinary 12-volume set of catalogues of the Count Dr. Alessandro Magnaguti collection of ancient and Italian coins and medals

Lot 265: John J. Ford, Jr.'s notes on Canadian tokens and Franco-American coins, including original photographs and other illustrations, manuscript notes, and correspondence

Lot 285: a complete set of the deluxe editions prepared for the first five volumes of Harrington Manville's Encyclopaedia of British Numismatics

Lot 290: José Toribio Medina's 1924 classic Medallas europeas relativas a América, discussing in extensive detail nearly 500 different medals of North, Central and South America

Lot 361: a photographically plated copy of S.H. Chapman's catalogue of the F.G. Simpson collection, one of the rarest of the plated Chapman catalogues, with only five examples traced.

Lot 324: a finely bound set of the American Journal of Numismatics, the cornerstone of American numismatic literature and one of the true landmark publications in the field

Lot 339: Burdette Johnson's archives relating to the Virgil Brand collection and Johnson's role in the disposition of parts of the collection on behalf of the Brand Estate

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Bids may be placed via post, email, phone, as well as online. Kolbe & Fanning use Auction Mobility as our third-party online bidding platform. Auction Mobility is an app-based platform allowing users the ability to participate in the sale through phones, tablets and computers. To register for the sale, bidders must go to bid.numislit.com and sign up. Once you have set up an account, you may browse lots, place advance bids, or participate in the live sale online. Those wishing to participate on their devices can download the Kolbe & Fanning app through the Apple or Google Play Store. The sale has been listed on Biddr and NumisBids.

The printed catalogue is being mailed to all active customers on our mailing list. As international mail speeds have been inconsistent, we encourage our foreign clients to consult the electronic catalogue in case their printed catalogue does not arrive promptly. A PDF of the printed catalogue has been posted to our main website at numislit.com for those who prefer that format. Bids placed via post, email, or phone must be received by May 30, the day before the sale, in order for them to be processed. Advance absentee bids may also be placed at any time online at bid.numislit.com. Internet bidding will be available during the sale itself through the same platform.

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
KOLBE & FANNING MAY 2025 SALE ANNOUNCED(https://www.coinbooks.org/v28/esylum_v28n19a03.html)