Kolbe & Fanning
After a modest beginning in 1976, this firm was running full tilt by its ninth sale in 1981, which featured consignments from Armand Champa, the estate of Kenneth Lee, and the Essex Institute. Harry W. Bass, Jr. John W. Adams, Jack Collins and many others competed to drive prices up to record levels, and the pursuit of collecting numismatic literature fully came into its own. The formation of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society complemented the commercial activity, and since then Kolbe & Fanning have handled many important libraries, including those of Adams, Bass, Stack’s, Ford, and others.
This catalog set as a whole describes over 100,000 items of numismatic literature, and, while there is naturally some lot duplication, it is clear that this represents a monumental effort, comparable in scope to the ANS library catalog. This copious record has, and will continue, to serve as a premier bibliographic resource for numismatic literature, with detailed and authoritative descriptions of nearly every important work in the field.
Kolbe and Fanning have cataloged even the most esoteric items with an eye toward putting them into greater context and giving the reader an well-formed idea of their place in the numismatic universe, often more substantive than might first appear. Some works are by definition more mundane than others, but all are given careful consideration in these thoughtfully prepared catalogs.
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Past Auction Results
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Auction Sale 127: The 2013 New York Book Auction
2013 Jan 12
Location: New York, NY
Type: Live
# of Lots: 271
Numismatic Ephemera Sale Number One
2013 Feb 12
Location: Gahanna, OH
# of Lots: 100
Auction Sale 128: Important Numismatic Literature
2013 Feb 28
Location: Gahanna, OH
Type: Mail
# of Lots: 1267
Numismatic Ephemera Sale Number Two
2013 Mar 21
# of Lots: 100
Buy or Bid Sale Number 2
2013 Apr 25
# of Lots: 546
Important Numismatic Literature: Sale One Hundred Twenty-Nine
2013 Jul 18
Location: Crestline, CA
Type: Mail
# of Lots: 660
Auction Sale 130: Important Numismatic Literature
2013 Sep 26
Location: Gahanna, OH
Type: Mail
# of Lots: 633
