Comparette’s Catalogue of the Bement Collection

[Bement, Clarence Sweet]. Comparette, Thomas Louis. A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF GREEK COINS SELECTED FROM THE CABINET OF CLARENCE S. BEMENT, ESQ. First edition. New York: ANS, 1921. 4to, later brown cloth, gilt. (4), 106, (2) pages; 25 plates of coins. Near fine. A very scarce and important catalogue, being a detailed work written by Thomas Louis Comparette of “370 specimens ... that are either very rare or at least not very abundant. Among the latter will be found some that have been included because of their exceedingly fine state of preservation, being often rare in that important respect.” (For more on Bement, see Alan S. Walker’s enjoyable article, “Catalogues and Their Collectors,” in the 2008 volume of the American Journal of Numismatics.) Clain-Stefanelli 1922. Daehn 2037.