Kolbe & Fanning
Auction 159 6 Mar 2021
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The Charvet Collection
Hoffmann, H. COLLECTION CHARVET. MÉDAILLES, ANTIQUITÉS, SCEAUX-MATRICES. 7 mai 1883 et jours suivants. (2), 180 pages; 1956 lots; text illustrations. [bound with] Mannheim, Charles. CATALOGUE DES OBJECTS D'ART ... DE LA COLLECTION DE FEU M. CHARVET. 11-12 mai 1883. 181–202 pages; lots 1957–2218. Two catalogues bound in one volume. Partly priced in pencil. 4to, contemporary green quarter morocco with mottled sides; spine with four raised bands, lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers. Near fine. The collection of Jules Charvet. Quite rare. Charvet was successfully sued for defamation in 1863 by Rollin & Feuardent for comments he made about them in the introduction to his 1862 Description de monnaies françaises, royales et féodales. Engel & Serrure 1539: "La série d'assignats comprend 802 communes de France, classées par départements. Parmi les sceaux se retrouvent ceux de la Monnaie de Tours (no 890), de la monnaie de Vierzon (no 940) et de Pelerin de Reims, monnayeur (no 838)." Ex 1991 Joint Kolbe/Spink Sale, lot 73.
Hoffmann, H. COLLECTION CHARVET. MÉDAILLES, ANTIQUITÉS, SCEAUX-MATRICES. 7 mai 1883 et jours suivants. (2), 180 pages; 1956 lots; text illustrations. [bound with] Mannheim, Charles. CATALOGUE DES OBJECTS D'ART ... DE LA COLLECTION DE FEU M. CHARVET. 11-12 mai 1883. 181–202 pages; lots 1957–2218. Two catalogues bound in one volume. Partly priced in pencil. 4to, contemporary green quarter morocco with mottled sides; spine with four raised bands, lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers. Near fine. The collection of Jules Charvet. Quite rare. Charvet was successfully sued for defamation in 1863 by Rollin & Feuardent for comments he made about them in the introduction to his 1862 Description de monnaies françaises, royales et féodales. Engel & Serrure 1539: "La série d'assignats comprend 802 communes de France, classées par départements. Parmi les sceaux se retrouvent ceux de la Monnaie de Tours (no 890), de la monnaie de Vierzon (no 940) et de Pelerin de Reims, monnayeur (no 838)." Ex 1991 Joint Kolbe/Spink Sale, lot 73.