Sixteenth Annual George Frederick Kolbe New York Public Auction Sale: Important Numismatic Books

Sixteenth Annual George Frederick Kolbe New York Public Auction Sale: Important Numismatic Books is a digital PDF auction catalogue for collectors and researchers. It is available as an instant download after purchase.

The catalogue records a major 1997 sale of numismatic literature held in New York during the New York International Numismatic Convention. It covers Russian, ancient, medieval, modern, and American numismatics.

This digital edition contains 82 pages and is supplied as a 6.5 MB PDF file. No physical book is included.

Book Overview

This reference catalogue presents the Sixteenth Annual George Frederick Kolbe New York Public Auction Sale, held on Saturday, December 6, 1997, at the New York Marriott World Trade Center. George Frederick Kolbe is identified with the catalogue and the firm George Frederick Kolbe Fine Numismatic Books.

The sale includes the Leon Hermes Russian Library, the Richard T. Johnson Masonic Library, works from the Medina Works From the Author’s Own Library, further selections from the library of Dr. Pierre Bastien, and works on American paper money from the Ray Ellenbogen Library.

Its structure includes sale terms, book sizes and condition definitions, a sale schedule, geographical and topical indexes, an author-firm-collection-publisher index, a foreword, an introduction, and individual lot descriptions. The catalogue is suited to numismatists, collectors, specialist booksellers, and researchers working with the history and bibliography of coin literature.

What You’ll Discover Inside

• Russian numismatic literature, including pre-Revolutionary and Soviet-era works.
• Ancient Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Islamic, medieval, and modern numismatic references.
• Books and catalogues concerning American numismatics and American paper currency.
• Material on medals, tokens, masonic numismatics, orders, decorations, and coin hoards.
• Topics including archaeology, antiquities, epigraphy, metrology, counterfeit detection, and paleography on coins.
• Geographical and topical indexes covering regions, coinage, money history, and related subjects.
• Lot descriptions with bibliographic details, page counts, illustrations, physical dimensions, conditions, and estimates where supplied.

Why This Book Matters

This catalogue preserves a detailed record of a specialized 1997 auction devoted to important numismatic books. Its Russian section documents a focused selection of scarce and standard works, while the wider sale reflects the international scope of numismatic research.

The indexes and lot descriptions make the publication useful as an archival reference for tracing authors, collections, publishers, subjects, and auction lots. The foreword and introduction also record the cataloguer’s approach to the Russian numismatic library and its bibliographic significance.

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Download this archival numismatic auction catalogue for focused reference on its recorded lots, collections, indexes, and sale documentation.