Kolbe & Fanning

Auction 167  –  10 June 2023

Kolbe & Fanning, Auction 167

Numismatic Literature

Sa, 10.06.2023, from 6:00 PM CEST
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Description

Various. WORKS ON ENGRAVED GEMS AND RELATED TOPICS, WRITTEN IN ENGLISH. Four titles, including: A.H. Smith & A.S. Murray’s 1888 A Catalogue of Engraved Gems in the British Museum; Duffield Osborne’s 1912 Engraved Gems, Signets, Talismans and Ornamental Intaglios, Ancient and Modern; Arthur Evans’s 1938 An Illustrative Selection of Greek and Greco-Roman Gems, to which Is Added a Minoan and Proto-Hellenic Series; and Richard V. Nicholls et al.’s 1983 The Wellcome Gems: A Fitzwilliam Museum Catalogue. Varying formats. Second work ex-library; rest in original bindings. Very good to fine. The first includes excellent collotype plates. Sinkankas 6140: “Altogether 2349 numbers, giving identity, material, size, provenance.”

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Price realized 120 USD
Starting price 65 USD
Estimate 100 USD
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