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The E-Sylum: Volume 21, Number 3, January 21, 2018, Article 2

KOLBE & FANNING’S 2018 NEW YORK SALE RESULTS

David Fanning submitted these results from last week's New York sale. The numismatic literature market is alive and well! Great prices for some great material. -Editor

KOLBE & FANNING NEW YORK SALE A SUCCESS

K-F 2018 New York Book Auction Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers held their 2018 New York Book Auction on Saturday, January 13 at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Manhattan. The sale featured selections from the exceptional library formed by Chicago coin dealer William A. Burd, as well as other properties covering the entire spectrum of numismatics. The sale was a great success, with over $400,000 of rare and out-of-print books being sold. Some highlights follow (prices include the premium):

Lot 32: an extensive manuscript notebook by Elvira Eliza Clain-Stefanelli on Roman Republican coins, sold for $2950 on a $750 estimate

Lot 34: an attractively bound copy of Thomas Louis Comparette’s 1921 Descriptive Catalogue of Greek Coins Selected from the Cabinet of Clarence S. Bement, sold for $2950 on a $400 estimate

KF 2017-01 sale lot 47-3_1
Lot 47

Lot 47: a charming copy of Andrea Fulvio’s 1517 Illustrium Imagines, the first edition of the first substantially illustrated numismatic book, brought $12,980 on a $6,000 estimate

KF 2017-01 sale lot 72A KF 2017-01 sale lot 72B
Lot 73

Lot 72: a very rare 1682 volume illustrating the ancient coin collection of Louis XIV, from the Cabinet du Roi series, brought $15,340

KF 2017-01 sale lot 131B_1 KF 2017-01 sale lot 131A_1
Lot 131

Lot 131: a complete large-paper set of Visconti & Mongez’s majestic Iconographie Grecque et Romaine in original bindings, brought $12,980

Lot 212: a complete set of the International Bureau for the Suppression of Counterfeit Coins’ Counterfeit Reports, brought $3835 on a $1500 estimate

Kolbe-Fanning Burd Library sale lot 336-1 Kolbe-Fanning Burd Library sale lot 356-2
Lots 336 and 356

Lot 336: an exceptional copy, one of only five produced, of the deluxe edition of Ard W. Browning’s The Early Quarter Dollars of the United States, sold for $16,520

Lot 356: Sylvester S. Crosby’s own unbound set of his classic 1875 The Early Coins of America, which realized $22,420

Lot 365: a very large and vibrantly printed 1852 broadside for Dye’s Bank Mirror and Illustrated Counterfeit Detector, realized $4720 on a $750 estimate

Lot 421: Howard R. Newcomb’s copy of the very scarce deluxe edition of B. Max Mehl’s catalogue of the Dr. George P. French large cent collection, with various invoices and correspondence laid in, sold for a robust $8260 on a $1500 estimate.

Over 150 bidders from around the world participated in the sale. While many of them bid through Kolbe & Fanning’s custom online bidding platform at bid.numislit.com or using the firm’s app, over three dozen bidders were in attendance at the sale: a better personal turn-out than for some of the coin sales! As always, we appreciate the opportunity to get to know our clients face-to-face, and we enjoyed spending the days before the auction talking to customers in the lot viewing room and on the bourse floor.

Kolbe & Fanning are working on our next mail-bid sale as we speak, with more information on that in the near future.

For more information, see:
http://www.numislit.com/

Scott Miller at Lot Viewing
Scott Miller writes:

Regarding the Kolbe-Fanning Lot Viewing photo in the last E-Sylum, the somewhat sketchy character to the left of Dan Hamelberg can be identified as me.

2018 NYINC K-F lot viewing Hamelberg
Scott Miller, Dan Hamelberg

Thanks - I've added Scott's identification to the photo in our Flickr archive. Sorry we didn't get to meet! -Editor

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
WAYNE'S NUMISMATIC DIARY: JANUARY 14, 2018 : Kolbe-Fanning Lot Viewing (http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/esylum_v21n02a25.html)

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