Partial Set of ANS Proceedings

[American Numismatic Society] American Numismatic & Archæological Society; American Numismatic Society. PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN NUMISMATIC AND ARCHÆOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK... / PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN NUMISMATIC SOCIETY... New York, 1879–1897 with breaks. Proceedings for sixteen annual meetings, as published in eleven volumes. Present are the volumes for: 1879–1882 and 1886–1897, being the 21st–24th and 28th–39th meetings of the Society. 4to, original printed paper or card covers. Condition ranges from good to near fine, with the combined 1888–1892 volume being very worn at the spine and with a missing rear cover; a few other detached covers. An underrated source of numismatic information, notable not only for information on the ANS, but for its book reviews, monographs, and obituaries of famous American numismatists. Before 1878, the Proceedings were printed in the American Journal of Numismatics. They are scarce and difficult to collect, partly due to the acidic paper on which some of the covers were printed, but they are worth the effort.