Chapman, Henry. CATALOGUE OF THE VALUABLE COLLECTION OF FOREIGN AND UNITED STATES GOLD COINS, PARTICULARLY RICH IN ANCIENT ROMAN GOLD COINS, POLISH GOLD COINS, INCLUDING A 100 DUCATS, 1621, SET OF THE SILVER DOLLARS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1794 TO 1904, 1804 ALONE EXCEPTED. 1851 OCTAGONAL $50 PIECE. FINE DECORATIONS, INCLUDING THE ORDER OF THE CINCINNATI. MAGNIFICENT CENTS OF 1794, 1796, 1797, 1802, 1803, OF THE LATE REV. STANISLAUS SIEDLECKI, PLYMOUTH, PA., TO WHICH IS ADDED THE CANADIAN COLLECTIONS OF R.O. MONTAMBAULT, J. BONNER, E.M. TURNER. Philadelphia: Davis & Harvey, April 22, 1911. 4to, original white cloth-backed gilt-printed white boards. iv, 61, (3) pages; 819 lots; 3 fine photographic plates; original printed prices realized list bound in. Hand-priced in pencil. Ex ANA Library, with their ink stamp on both cover, all blank plate versos, and in various other locations; hand-lettered cover label. Very good or so. Adams 16, with plates. Rated B+ overall: "Choice ancients. Gold coins of world, Poland. Order of Cincinnati. Proof gold. Bridge tokens. A few gem 1¢." A very difficult to obtain plated large format Chapman sale catalogue. The first plate depicts choice ancients, European coins and medals, and a few American gold rarities. Plates two and three illustrate European rarities, including multiple thalers, also a $50 slug, several important United States silver dollars, and other coins. The Siedlecki catalogue is unusual in that the unplated copies are in octavo format while the plated copies are quartos. The text in the plated versions is printed in the same octavo text block size but on quarto size paper, with very wide margins, to accommodate the quarto-size plates that were prepared. Since Henry wrote the sale and Samuel Hudson produced the plates, we expect a miscommunication took place, though the original intention is lost to time. Were it not for the wholly unnecessary library stamps, this would be a remarkably well-preserved copy of this rare catalogue. Davis 202. Fanning, Ancient Coins in Early American Auctions, 15. Ex Charles Davis's sale of July 14, 2007; ex Cardinal Collection Library.