KOLBE & FANNING SALE 176 ANNOUNCED

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V29 2026 INDEX E-SYLUM ARCHIVE

The E-Sylum: Volume 29, Number 6, 2026, Article 2

Kolbe & Fanning have announced their 50th Anniversary numismatic literature sale on February 28, 2026, 50 years to the day after founder George Kolbe's first mail-bid sale on February 28, 1976. It will feature many books on ancient, world and U.S. numismatics, including some from Kolbe's personal library. -Garrett

Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers are pleased to announce that we will be holding our 176th auction sale on Saturday, February 28, 2026. This date marks the 50th anniversary of the first mail-bid sale held by our founder, George Frederick Kolbe, on February 28, 1976. The sale features a wide variety of rare and out-of-print works on ancient, world and U.S. numismatics, including a number of works from Kolbe's personal library.

Lot 43: the impressive five-volume 1708 Antwerp edition of Goltzius on ancient coins, including the magnificent Icones volume, from the library of George Kolbe

Lot 94: a stunning copy of the first book on Seleucid coins, Jean Foy Vaillant's 1732 Seleucidarum imperium, finely bound by Petit-Simier in beautifully decorated crushed morocco

Lot 177: George Francis Hill's classic 1930 A Corpus of Italian Medals of the Renaissance before Cellini, in two massive folio volumes

Lot 241: a large bound volume bringing together twenty-nine Sotheby sales of the period 1840–1870, all but one of them featuring buyers' names, including the 1855 Conder sale

Lot 306: an exceptionally well-preserved copy of Henry Chapman's 1907 sale of the Matthew Adams Stickney sale, with 20 fine photographic plates, from the John J. Ford, Jr. Library

Lot 323: S.H. Chapman's very rare 1921 catalogue of the Dr. J.M. Henderson collection, with four fine photographic plates, one of only eight examples traced

Lot 347: a well-preserved example of Tom Elder's 1929 catalogue of the collection of Dr. George Alfred Lawrence, with 22 fine photographic plates

Lot 351: J. Francis Fisher's "Description of American Medals," one of the earliest numismatic works published in this country, included in the 1837 volume of the Collections of the MHS

Lot 373: a substantial collection of the hardcover numismatic literature catalogues of George Frederick Kolbe, comprising fifty-eight sales as bound in fifty-six volumes

Lot 405: James Mease's 1821 "Description of Some of the Medals Struck in Relation to Important Events in North America," the earliest U.S. publication on American numismatics.