On Saturday, May 31, 2025, Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers will be holding our next auction, Sale 173, featuring material from the library of Barry Tayman and the second half of the L.D. & I.P. Library. The sale includes rare and out-of-print works on ancient, world and U.S. numismatics, with the 500 lots offering something for everybody.

Some highlights of this first sale include:

Lot 3: a well-preserved original copy of the enormously important catalogue of the Dr. Samuel Pozzi collection, sold at auction by Naville/Ars Classica in 1921

Lot 70: a complete set of Charles Dupriez's La gazette numismatique, published in thirteen volumes between 1896 and 1913 and rarely encountered

Lot 25: the 1755 sale catalogue of the Dr. Richard Mead collection, conducted by Samuel Baker in London, arguably the first truly important numismatic auction held in England

Lot 97: Ernst Justus Haeberlin's monumental Aes Grave, including the enormous folio volume of 103 exceptionally fine plates of the early Italian cast coinage

Lot 236: a complete set of Warren Baker's very scarce early fixed price lists of Canadian coins, medals and tokens, published between 1966 and 1979, bound in two volumes

Lot 351: Colonel E.H.R. Green's copy of Henry Chapman's 1907 catalogue of the Matthew Stickney collection, with 20 fine photographic plates

Lot 407: Burdette G. Johnson's extensive invoice files for 1940-1947, comprising seven archival file boxes holding some 3000 invoices for tens of thousands of coins

Lot 322: one of only 16 deluxe copies of Medallic Portraits of Admiral Vernon, by John W. Adams, Fernando Chao and Anne Bentley, bound in tan half morocco

Lot 446: a bound volume from the Edgar H. Adams library including what is perhaps the finest extant copy of the rare 1892 George D. Woodside catalogue with plates.

Lot 442: an exceptional, finely bound complete set of the auction catalogues issued by the New Netherlands Coin Company, from the libraries of Craig N. Smith and John W. Adams

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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.

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
KOLBE & FANNING MAY 2025 SALE SELECTIONS(https://www.coinbooks.org/v28/esylum_v28n20a02.html)
KOLBE & FANNING MAY 2025 SALE ANNOUNCED(https://www.coinbooks.org/v28/esylum_v28n19a03.html)