Kolbe & Fanning
Auction 159 6 Mar 2021
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Jetons of the Kings & Queens of France
La Tour, Henri de. CATALOGUE DES JETONS DE LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE. ROIS ET REINES DE FRANCE. Paris: Rollin & Feuardent, 1897. 8vo, contemporary brown half morocco with marbled sides; spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt; decorative endpapers. (4), xlvi, (2), 504 pages; 36 fine plates depicting over 500 jetons. Binding worn, particularly at spine; rear endpapers damp-stained, with some waviness to plates. Still very good. An important and very scarce work on French jetons, meticulously describing some 2334 pieces in the collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale (of which the author served as the librarian of the Department of Coins and Antiquities). Only the second copy of this major work that we have handled in many years. Clain-Stefanelli 13825.
La Tour, Henri de. CATALOGUE DES JETONS DE LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE. ROIS ET REINES DE FRANCE. Paris: Rollin & Feuardent, 1897. 8vo, contemporary brown half morocco with marbled sides; spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt; decorative endpapers. (4), xlvi, (2), 504 pages; 36 fine plates depicting over 500 jetons. Binding worn, particularly at spine; rear endpapers damp-stained, with some waviness to plates. Still very good. An important and very scarce work on French jetons, meticulously describing some 2334 pieces in the collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale (of which the author served as the librarian of the Department of Coins and Antiquities). Only the second copy of this major work that we have handled in many years. Clain-Stefanelli 13825.