AMERICAN NUMISMATIC LITERATURE
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The One Hundred Greatest Items Of United States Numismatic Literature Rank: Number 44
Davis’ work is the best single volume on the subject. Davis lists twelve hundred items, along with pricing information and descriptions extracted from numismatic literature auction sales in the 1980s and early 1990s – all told over three thousand auction references are detailed here. The wealth of technical data is superceded only by the trenchant pen of the author, whose interspersed editorial comments (“priceless” per Michael Hodder) turn the entire production into a lively and engaging affair. Davis is not afraid to call one reference “dry reading,” while elsewhere he notes that Clain-Stefanelli’s Numismatic Bibliography left American collectors “feeling snake-bitten,” and that another author’s work is “self-aggrandizing” in nature. Useful appendices enumerate Woodward and Chapman auction catalogs, as well as the ANS monograph series.
1st Edition
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Davis, Charles. AMERICAN NUMISMATIC LITERATURE. AN ANNOTATED SURVEY OF AUCTION SALES 1980-1991.
Lincoln, MA: 1992
218pp
Octavo: 28.5 x 22cm
Hardbound: Black cloth, lettered in gilt
Limited to 550 copies.
1st Edition, Special
Photo courtesy of Photo courtesy of Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers.
Davis, Charles. AMERICAN NUMISMATIC LITERATURE. AN ANNOTATED SURVEY OF AUCTION SALES 1980-1991.
Lincoln, MA: 1992
218pp
Octavo: 28.5 x 22cm
Hardbound: Half black morocco, spine labels, lettered in gilt
Limited to 35 copies.
1st Edition, Deluxe
Photo courtesy of Charles Davis.
Davis, Charles. AMERICAN NUMISMATIC LITERATURE. AN ANNOTATED SURVEY OF AUCTION SALES 1980-1991.
Lincoln, MA: 1992
218pp
Octavo: 28.5 x 22cm
Hardbound: Full black morocco, spine labels, lettered in gilt
Limited to 15 copies.