A Further Display of Old Maps & Plans
La Crosse: Sumac Press, 1969. Cloth Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [70] pages. 300 copies, includes bibliographic references includes lacks errata slip. More
La Crosse: Sumac Press, 1969. Cloth Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [70] pages. 300 copies, includes bibliographic references includes lacks errata slip. More
Iowa City: The Prairie Press, 1962. 80p. One of the more uncommon of Walter Kleinfelter's marvenous books on maps on stamps. Limited to 550 copies, this copy has the original Fort Ticonderoga stamp from 1955 as a pastedown for the frontispiece. Kleinfelter often added a signature stamp as a frontispiece..... More
La Crosse: Sumac Press, 1973. Cloth Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 77p. [1] issued in 300 copies. Canada's Samuel Hearne stamp is handmounted as the frontispience as in all copies. More
Lausanne: 1972. Hardcover. Quarto. 254p. While often shooting matches are often seen in terms of the Olmpics, the Swiss have held such events for centuries and the first engraved are from the early 1600's. The metals were struck in various metals with size and metal noted here. The book also..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1861. Octavo. 292pp., (4)pp. publisher's ads, engraved frontispiece and several other illustrations with and index to the illustrations and index to the explanation of the illustrations. A very nice copy bound in brown embossed cloth, spine lettering gilt, brown endpapers, occasional scattering of foxing, a...... More
(Heritage Publishers, Phoenix, Az. 2001). Quarto. Signed and inscribed by the author. 486pp., illustrated in color. "The story of the Bible world through coins and other means of exchange from Genesis through the end of the Roman Empire; including the four hundred years between the Old and New Testaments". Includes..... More
Tamarac, Flordida: American Israel Numismatic Assn, 1980. 52p. Issued originally by special request to subscribers to Shekel, copies have been unavailable for years. No copy is reported at the American Numismatic Society. Edward Schuman was editor of the Shekel and wrote in the January issue that it was in preparation..... More
American Numismatic Society New York, 1935. First American. Original Wraps. More
Oakdale, New York: Alfred Szego. Original Paper Wrps. 8vo. 290p. 42 full page plates. unnumbered guide to key numbrs, index. A very good copy of one of the most scarce by Azego. His work as a numismatic historian became the most important work on not only Medieval Austria and Italy..... More
London: Spink & Son, 1999. Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A fine matched set of all six volumes completing the series of the great Norweb Collection presenting the tokens of the British Isles. Following the International Numismatic Congress of 1973 in New York and Washington, Mr. and..... More
London: Canadian Philetelic Society of Great Britain, 1960. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 47 pages, illustrations. The engraving, the plates officially described in 1928 yet no certificate to confirm--the black printing versus variant markings. A complex problem but the illustrations are so extensive, the collector should be able..... More
New York: American Numismatic Society, 1964. Octavo. . 302 pages. Under the issues of Tiberius II Constantinus (378-582) there were only two reverse types used for the tremissis throughout the Mediterranean world in the sixth century. The first, which is peculiar to Byzantine Imperial currency and also found in Ostrogothic..... More
American Numismatic Society New York, 1950. First American. Orginal Wraps. More
Athena: Ekdose Noummiio, 1977. First Edition. Octavo. Modern Greek Text. 239 pages. An essential work but though the images can be used by the non-Greek speaking numismatist, the richest content is in modern Greek. Bound in white pictorial stiff paper wraps. More
Crestline, Calif. George Frederick Kolbe, 2001. First Edition. Octavo. Limited to 151 copies at the Bird & Bull Press. The present copy is number 149. 35, (7) pages; illustrated, color plate of a Renaissance Gentleman tipped in, specially commissioned woodcut by Wesley W. Bates, and an original woodcut leaf from..... More
Lymington: Kings of Lymington, 1964. 37p. 22 pages of plates. A very scarce item written by the expert on English traders tokens. This work was issued in a small print run and included the Isle of Wight. In addition to the plate images, there is an alphabetical list of the..... More
Hangzhou, China: Hangzhou Goal-Ascend Culture Co, 2009. 1 volumes; color illustrations [8], the album is printed on pure natural silk with Goal-Ascends's unique High Resolution Silkcolor Printing. It consist of all the stamps of Confucius issued insce the foundation of PRC and selected painter Qiu Ying. This is the first..... More
Winamac, Ind. Zeng Zelu, 1985. Quarto. 180p. In the introduction Dr. Bruce W. Smith of the East Asia Journal notes that Dr. Tseng presents a wide variety of coins in his work from the imitation of cowries of the Shang or Chou era, through the knives and spaces of the..... More
Taibei Xian Zhonghe Shi: Zhang Hitin. Octavo. 560p. Chinese text. Subtitle on cover continues: silver, gold, nickel and aluminum=ying, jin, nie lü pian. A classic work expanded over its predecessors (includes advertisements p. 537-558). Hundreds of illustrations of the coins by a well-known expert. Bibliographic references. The last copy appeared..... More