Catalogue
Australian International Exhibitions, Report of the Royal Commission for 1879 and 1880, printed in London, hard cover, 491pp, cover page missing; The Industrial Progress of New South Wales Being a Report of the Intercolonial Exhibition of 1870 at Sydney, together with a variety of papers illustrative of the industrial resources of the colony, printed by Thomas Richards, Government Printer, Sydney, 1871, hard cover, 702pp+32pp of advertising; both books include lists of awards. Both books with damage, the first with cover page missing, the second with fold-out pages missing at back, some foxing, otherwise fine. (2)
Estimate $50
SOLD $100
Calcutta International Exhibition, 1883-84, New South Wales its Progress and Resources and Official Catalogue, printed by Thomas Richards, Government Printer, Sydney, hard cover, 169pp + Index xiiipp, with list of NSW exhibitors and products; Report of the Executive Commissioner for New South Wales, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, printed by Charles Potter, Government Printer, Sydney, 1894, hard cover, 671pp, with 22 folding plates, with list of awards to NSW exhibitors; Official Catalogue of the Greater Britain Exhibition, Earl's Court, London, 1899, Imre Kiralfy, Director-General, printed in London, hard cover gold blocked with name, 'Hon. W.Knox, M.L.C.', 348pp, includes lists of all exhibits; Australian Pavilion, British Empire Exhibition, 1924, a photographic souvenir of the pavilion illustrating Australia's attractions and resources, soft cover, 40pp. All with some foxing, very good - good fine. (4)
Estimate $250
SOLD $340
Carson, Robert., Coins of the Roman Empire, Cambridge (1990), 480 pp., 64 plates, with hard dust cover; Emmett, K., Alexandrian Coins, Wisconsin, 2001; Sear, D., Byzantine Coins and Their Values (1974), 2000 reprint; Pitchfork, Colin E., The Jon Hosking Collection of Ptolemaic Coins; Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney 2000, 72 pp., illustrated throughout. Extremely fine. (4)
Estimate $50
SOLD $80
Eckhel, J.H., Numi Veteres Anecdoti, Ex Museis, Caesareo Vindobonensi, Florentino Magni, first edition, second volume, Vienna, 1775, Quarto, pp.318, 17 plates, later hardcover binding. Light foxing, otherwise very fine and rare.
Estimate $100
SOLD $220
Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles, 'The Art Of Heraldry, An Encyclopedia of Armory', New York, 1976; Wagner, A.R., 'Papworth's Ordinary Of British Armorials', London, 1961; Scott-Giles, C.W, 'Boutell's Heraldry', London, 1958; Fox-Davies, A.C., 'A Complete Guide to Heraldry', New York, 1978; 'Heraldry', Macdonald Educational, London, 1973; Gayre, G.R., 'The Heraldry of the Knights of St John', India, 1956; 'Bookbinding', London, c.1960s; Franklyn, J, 'Heraldry', London, 1965; White, A.C.T., 'Shield & Crest', London, 1960; Fairbairn, J, 'Fairbairn's Crests', Japan, 1968; Neubecker, O., 'Heraldry', London, 1976; Gayre, R., 'The Nature of Arms', Edinburgh, 1961; Tschichold, J., 'Treasury of Alphabets and Lettering', England, 1985; Harthan, J., 'The Book of Hours', Lancashire, 1977, (2). Very fine. (15)
Estimate $200
SOLD $290
Friedberg, Robert, Gold Coins of the World, 5th edition, 1980; A History of Chinese Currency, New China Publishing House, 1983, Hong Kong; A large set of modern historical medals in gilt bronze in a leather style case, from Bulgaria 681-1981, 1300th year commemorative issue of gilt replicas (10 small and one large medal) from the National Museum of Bulgaria, included printout of medal details and history, very unusual. Last item extremely fine, books very fine ex Library copies. (3)
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
Goron, S., & Goenka, J.P., The Coins of the Indian Sultanates, New Delhi, 2001; Narasimha Murthy, Dr.A.V., Studies in Karnataka Numismatics, Mysore, 1996; Gadoury, V., Monnaies Royales Francaises 1610-1792, Monte-Carlo, 1986; Rylov, I. & Sobolin, V., Russian and Soviet Coins 1700-1993, Moscow, 1994; Coin Yearbook, 1982; Mackay, Dr.J., The Complete Illustrated Guide to Coins and Coin Collecting, London, 2010. Very fine. (6)
Estimate $50
SOLD $100
Great Exhibitions The World Fairs 1851-1937, by Robert Wilson, 2007, soft cover, 79pp; the Crystal Palace Exhibition, Illustrated Catalogue London (1851), republication of The Art Journal Special issue, 1970, soft cover, 328pp+74pp ; Catalogue of the International Exhibition 1862, published 1973, with book plate of L.J.Carlisle and his signature, hard cover, 324pp; Sydney International Exhibition 1879, published 1979, soft cover, 55pp; Colonial City Global City, Sydney's International Exhibition 1879, published 2000, soft cover, 283pp; Tasmanian International Exhibition Souvenir 1894-95, published 1995, soft cover, 24pp, with souvenir postcard; The Centenary Exhibition 1880-1980, published 1980, official souvenir program, soft cover, 53pp. Very fine - extremely fine. (7)
Estimate $150
SOLD $90
Hawkins, Edward., Description of the Anglo-Gallic Coins in the British Museum, London, Trustees of the British Museum, 1826, 91 pages, 3 plates; Lindsay, John, A View of the Coinage of the Heptarchy, with list of unpublished mints and moneyers of the Chief or Sole Monarchs from Egbert to Harold II and some principal hoards of Anglo-Saxon coins, 132pps, preface VIII, plates 6 plus index, Cork, 1842; Henry, J., The Series of English Coins in Copper, Tin & Bronze, London, 1879; Sotheby & Wilkinson, Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Coins and Medals, the Property of The Rev. Dr. Neligan, Sale 15 January 1851, and the three following days, London, hardbound; Coins of Scotland, Ireland and the Islands, Spink, 2003; North, J.J., English Hammered Coinage, Vol 2, Edward I to Charles II, 1272-1662, London, 1991. Very fine. (6)
Estimate $100
SOLD $120
(Hawkins, E., Franks, A.W., and Grueber, H.A.) Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and Ireland, Department of Coins and Medals, British Museum, London (1904-1911), reprinted in one volume, London 1979. Folio pp (X) Indexes (64) 183 plates with descriptive text. No 29 of a limited edition of 50 copies, handbound in half leather by George Miller of Owestry, label in upper cover. As new.
Estimate $50
SOLD $100
India, H.Nelson Wright, The Coinage and Metrology of the Sultans of Delhi, 1974, (2); J.R.Henderson, The Coins of Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan, 1989; Geo.P.Taylor, The Coins of Tipu Sultan, 1989; B.N.Mukherjee, Coins and Currency Systems of Post-Gupta Bengal, c.AD 550-700, 1993; B.Ch.Chabra, Gupta Gold Coins of the Bayana Hoard in the National Museum, 1986; Paul Stevens & Randy Weir, The Uniform Coinage of India, 1835 to 1947, A Catalogue and Price List, Spink, 2012; K.K.Maheshwari and Kenneth W. Higgins, Maratha Mints and Coinage, 1989; Dilip Rajgor, Standard Catalogue of Sultanate Coins of India, 1991; Andrew Liddle, Coinage of Akbar, 2005; Sir Walter Elliot, The International Numismata Orientalia, Coins of Southern India, 1970; Aman ur Rahman, Zahir-uddin Muhammad Babur, A Numismatic Study, 2005; L.C.Bawa & S.C.Gupta, Coins of Indian States, Part A, 2005; Himanshu Prabha Ray, Coins in India, Power and Communication, 2006. Very fine. (14)
Estimate $100
SOLD $360
India, Manik Jain, Couplets on Mughal Coins of India, 1998; Arthur Needham, The Coins of India, The Mughal Emperors, Part VII, 2014; C.R.Singhal, Catalogue of Mughal Coins in the State Museum, Lucknow, 1965; Chas J. Rodgers, Coins of the Mogul Emperors of India, 1972 (2); J.F.Richards, The Imperial Monetary System of Mughal India, 1987; P.Gupta & S.Kulashreshtha, Kusana Coins and History, 2004; Indian Paper Money Guide Book, (1770-2011), 2012-13; Rekha Jain, Ancient Indian Coinage, 1995; Bahadur Chand Chhabra, Catalogue of the Gupta Gold Coins of the Bayana Hoard in the National Museum, 1986; Sir John Marshall, A Guide to Taxila, 1921; Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya, Coins and Currency Systems in South India, 1977; Dilip Rajgor, Punch-Marked Coins of Early Historic India, 2008; Robert & Monica Tye, Jitals, 1995; Andrew Liddle, Coinage of Akbar, 2005; Hans Herrli, The Coins of the Sikhs, 2004. Hardcovers, very fine. (16)
Estimate $100
SOLD $320
India, Strnad, J., Monetary History of Mughal India As Reflected in Silver Coin Hoards, 2001; Manik Jan, Couplets on Mughal Coins of India, 1998; Rajgor, D., Collector's Guide to Mughal Coins, 2002; Stanley Lane Poole, The Coins of The Moghul Emperors of Hindustan In The British Museum, 1892, reprinted 1983; Wali Khan, Copper Coins of Barid Shahi Dynasty of Bidar & Nizam Shahi Dynasty of Ahmadnagar, 1982; P.S.Reddy, Silver Coins of the Bahmanis, 1983, 1993; Singhal, The NSI Mint Towns of the Mughal Emperors of India, 1953. Very fine, all bound in custom red leather. (8)
Estimate $100
SOLD $200
Kent, J.P.C., & Hirmer, M., & A., Roman Coins, London, 1978, 368pp., 199 plates, profusely illustrated , 31cm. Very fine and scarce.
Estimate $70
SOLD $90
Luck, John Jacob, Sylloge of sixteenth century medals and coins with hundreds of engravings, Strasbourg 1620, folio, pp (VIII) 382 (2), including final extra leaf, contemporary mottled calf, espice gilt, raised bands, extremities worn. From the Evelyn family library with J E bookplate, fine.
Estimate $120
SOLD $440
Nugent's/Renniks, Coin Bulletin. Premiere Edition, Vol.1, No.1 June 1968, and Vol.1, No.2 July August 1969. Fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Numismata, A Discourse of Medals, by J.Evelyn, London, 1697, 342pp, title, six preliminary pp, index at back, 14pp. Early ownership signatures and bookplates, full original leather binding, fine.
Estimate $80
SOLD $500
Numismatic catalogues, series of recent catalogues from Heritage auctions; Stacks & Bowers; Rare Coin Market Report; also United Kingdom Commemorative Proof Coin Collection, 1981 (missing gold). Very fine. (approx 150 in three boxes)
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Official Record of the New Zealand And South Seas Exhibition, held at Dunedin, 1889-90, compiled by D.Harris Hastings, 1891, hard cover, 378pp+117pp, with fold-outs, with library plate of Arthur E.G.Rhodes and his signature; New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, Dunedin, 1889-90, Catalogue of the Exhibits in the New South Wales Court, printed in Sydney 1890, hard cover, 154pp. Foxing, otherwise fine. (2)
Estimate $200
Passed in
Official Record of the Sydney International Exhibition, 1879, printed by Thomas Richards, Government Printer, Sydney, hard cover, 1154pp, with fold-out colour maps, list of awards and full reports, inside front cover with leather sticker, gold blocked, 'Presented/By The/Commissioners/Of The/Sydney International Exhibition/of/1879'. Some foxing, otherwise very fine and scarce.
Estimate $750
SOLD $2,000
Roman Imperial Coinage (RIC), Volume I, Revised Edition, from 31 BC to AD 69, Revised Edition, by C.H.V.Sutherland, Green cloth hardbound with dust jacket, Spink & Son Ltd, London, 1984; Sear, David, Roman Coins and Their Values, Vol I, 2000 (2); Vol II, 2002; Vol III, 2005; Vol IV, 2011; Greek Imperial Coins and Their Values, Spink, 2008; Byzantine Coins and Their Values, Spink, 2010; Mattingly, Harold., Roman Coins, London, 1962. Very fine with minor foxing. (9)
Estimate $100
SOLD $260
Robson Lowe, The Encyclopedia of British Empire Postage Stamps 1788-1952, Volume IV The Empire in Australasia, 615 pp., illustrations throughout, First Edition 1962. Very good and rare.
Estimate $200
SOLD $160
Scher, Steven.K., The Currency of Fame, Portrait Medals of the Renaissance, 1994; Coincraft's Standard Catalogue of English and UK Coins 1066 to Date, 1997; Sir A.Cunningham, Coins of the Indo-Scythians, Sakas & Kushans, 1971; Kenneth W.Harl, Coinage in the Roman Economy, 300 B.C. to A.D. 700, 1996; Colin E.Pitchfork, The Jon Hosking Collection of Ptolemaic Coins, 2000; P.J.Casey, Roman Coinage in Britain, 2002; Donald Nicol, A Biographical Dictionary of The Byzantine Empire, 1991; D.Raymond, Coins and the Story They Tell, c.1950s; Gertrude Burford Rawlings ,Coins and How to Know Them, 1910; Evelyn Waugh, When The Going Was Good, 1948. Most very fine, some foxing. (10)
Estimate $50
SOLD $200
Sixteenth century, printed single sheets, one Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Folio 36 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' from an edition published by Thomas Speight in London, 1598, and Hollinshed's Chronicles of England, pages 35 and 36 - Caesar's Invasion of Britain, published in London, 1577. Very fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
Sylloge of Islamic Coins in the Ashmolean, Volume 10, Arabia and East Africa, Oxford 1999; Balog, P., The Coinage of the Ayyubids, London, 1980; Ghalib, Edhem Isma'il, Maskukati Turkmaniye Qataloghi, Constantinople, 1894; Lane-Poole, S., The Coins of the Eastern Khaleefehs in the British Museum, London, 1875 (first reprinting); Lane-Poole, S., The Coinage of Bukhara (Transoxiana) in the British Museum, London, 1882. Very fine. (5)
Estimate $100
SOLD $110
Jeremy Taylor & William Cave, Antiquitates Christianae or, History of the life and death of the Holy Jesus, and also the lives, acts and martyrdoms of his Apostles, London, 1742, 622pp, 75 plates, 360mm x 240mm. Original boards, later leather spine, very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $200