Kolbe and Fanning Numismatic Booksellers: Important Numismatic Books, 177, Gahanna

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 13, 2026 - June 13, 2026
Page Size: 421 items in 17 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
305 Taylor Arthur

The Glory of Regality

London 1820 USD 150.00 - 150.00 USD 180.00
306 Thomson Thomas

A Collection of Inventories and Other Records of the Royal Wardrobe and Jewelhouse

Edinburgh 1815 USD 200.00 - 200.00 USD 192.00
307

N Books, including: The Society of the Cincinnati 1783–1935

1814–1983 USD 200.00 - 200.00 USD 192.00
308

Auction Catalogues and Fixed Price Lists Offering Orders, Decorations and Military Medals

1930–2006 USD 100.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
309

Statutes of the Papal Orders of Knighthood

Romae 1905 USD 200.00 - 200.00 USD 204.00
310

Orders, Decorations and Medals of the Kingdom of Nepal

Kathmandu 1967 USD 100.00 - 100.00 USD 300.00
311

Orden: Eine Sammlung der bekanntesten deutschen Orden und Auszeichnungen

Munchen c. 1932 USD 100.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
312 Whittaker A.E.

British War Medals and Decorations; Additional British War Medals and Decorations

London 1890; 1897 USD 200.00 - 200.00 USD 216.00
313 Wilkins Philip A.

The History of the Victoria Cross

London 1904 USD 100.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
314 Wilson John

The Royal Philatelic Collection

London 1952 USD 500.00 - 500.00 USD 480.00
315

Reference Works on Non-European Orders & Decorations

1937-2000 USD 150.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
316 Adams John W.

United States Numismatic Literature

Mission Viejo; Crestline 1982; 1990 USD 150.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
317 Akers David

The John Jay Pittman Collection

Baltimore; Rosemont 1997-1999 USD 150.00 - 150.00 USD 330.00
322

Constitution and By-Laws of the American Numismatic Society

New York 1858 USD 500.00 - 500.00 USD 1,320.00
323 Slafter Edmund F.; Phillips Henry Jr.; Storer Horatio R.; Weber F. Parkes

Offprints from the American Journal of Numismatics; American Numismatic Society Publications

1874; 1882; 1895; 1903; 1891; 1908 USD 150.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
324

Proceedings of the American Numismatic and Archaeological Society of New York

New York 1879-1907 USD 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
325

American Journal of Numismatics

New York 1990-2024 USD 150.00 - 150.00 USD 180.00
326

Auction Sale Catalogues

New York 1860-1863 USD 200.00 - 200.00 USD 360.00
327 Bowers Q. David; Ruddy James F.

An Outstanding Selection of United States Pattern Coins

Binghampton, New York 1960 USD 100.00 - 100.00 USD 192.00
328 Bowers Q. David; Hodder Michael; Dumont Cathy

Limited Edition Photographic Plates. State Copper Coinage 1785–1788

Wolfeboro 1987 USD 100.00 - 100.00 USD 108.00
329 Bowers Q. David

Silver Dollars and Trade Dollars of the United States

Wolfeboro 1993 USD 300.00 - 300.00 USD 480.00
330 Bowers Q David

Alexandre Vattemare and the Numismatic Scene

Santa Ana 2018 USD 100.00 - 100.00 USD 90.00
331 Bowers Q David

Coin Collecting: Those Who Led the Way

Costa Mesa 2020 USD 100.00 - 100.00 USD 240.00
332 Breen Walter H

Manuscript Notes, Typescript Draft, and Other Materials on National Gold Bank Notes

Berkeley undated (mid-1970s) USD 300.00 - 300.00 USD 450.00
333 Breen Walter H

Correspondence and Cataloguing Drafts Written for John J. Ford, Jr.

Berkeley; New York 1976 USD 200.00 - 200.00 USD 270.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
    25 June – July 7
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000