KOLBE & FANNING NOVEMBER 2025 SALE HIGHLIGHTS

Kolbe & Fanning's 175th auction sale of rare and out of print numismatic literature will take place on Saturday, November 22, 2025, starting at 12:00 noon eastern time. Featuring the outstanding library on Russian numismatics formed by Igor Shneyderov, the sale also includes useful and infrequently encountered works on ancient, world and U.S. coins, with excellent American and British material from the library of John Hoskins.

Some highlights of this first sale include:

   

 
Lots 33 and 194

Lot 33: Rollin & Feuardent's 1887 catalogue of the magnificent collection of Roman and Byzantine gold coins formed by Gustave, Vicomte de Ponton d'Amécourt

Lot 194: the Duke of Leuchtenberg's finely bound complete original set of the massive five-part folio corpus of Russian medals published by the Archaeological Commission in 1840–1846

 
Lots 247 and 287

Lot 247: two of the most important pre-revolutionary sales of Russian coins, the 1910 Klingert sale and the 1913 Tolstoï sale, both by Adolf Hess (Nachf.), bound in one volume

Lot 287: a nearly complete set of the proceedings of the Moscow Numismatic Society, with contributions by Oreshnikov, Nützel, Tiesenhausen, Retowski, Iversen, and others

 
Lot 335

Lot 335: an extraordinary large-paper copy of Count Fyodor Tolstoi's beautifully illustrated work on the Fatherland War medals, commemorating the events of 1812–1815

 
Lot 350

Lot 350: a complete set of the American Journal of Numismatics (1866–1924), arguably the most important numismatic publication of the 19th-century United States

 
Lots 393 and 438

Lot 393: a photographically plated copy of Henry Chapman's 1908 catalogue of the Taylor and Windle collections, in a handsome binding executed by Alan Grace for Armand Champa

Lot 438: Tom Elder's 1910 catalogue of the Peter Mougey collection, featuring 42 fine photographic plates depicting colonial coinage, large cents, and other U.S. coins

 
Lots 442 and 470

Lot 442: an exceptional set of Ed Frossard's remarkable periodical Numisma, handsomely bound in red half morocco and housed in a marbled slipcase

Lot 470: the New York Coin & Stamp Company's landmark 1890 catalogue of the Lorin G. Parmelee collection, finely bound in tan half morocco, with 13 fine tinted photographic plates.

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To bid in the sale, see:
https://bid.numislit.com/auctions/1-BH0HFN/important-numismatic-books-sale-175

To read the .pdf catalog, see:
https://numislit.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/upload/kolbefanningsale175.pdf

To read the earlier E-Sylum articles, see:
KOLBE & FANNING NOVEMBER 2025 SALE ANNOUNCED (https://www.coinbooks.org/v28/esylum_v28n44a02.html)
KOLBE & FANNING NOVEMBER 2025 SALE HIGHLIGHTS (https://www.coinbooks.org/v28/esylum_v28n45a02.html)

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