Kolbe & Fanning
Auction 159 6 Mar 2021
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An Extraordinary Collection of French Governmental Publications on the Coinage, 1789–1801
France. PUBLICATIONS RELATING TO THE MONETARY SYSTEM OF FRANCE DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD THROUGH THE EARLY NAPOLEONIC ERA. An extensive collection, including seventy-one publications from various legislative assemblies (from l'Assemblée Nationale through le Corps Législatif) as well as privately printed publications addressing the questions surrounding the monetary reforms and the coinage. [For the full listing of the individual items, please see the pirnted or PDF catalogue.] An extraordinary group of these primary documents, of unparalleled importance to those interested in the development of the French monetary system and of modern French coinage. Any one of these documents could easily be treated as a separate lot in this sale, and most of them were in fact acquired by Richard Margolis in piecemeal fashion. To break apart what took him decades to bring together, however, would be unconscionable. This is a rare opportunity to acquire an exceptionally focused group of French governmental documents concerning coinage from the period of the Revolution and extending into the early years of the Napoleonic era. The authors include a wide array of political figures of the day. Virtually every aspect of the coinage reform is discussed in these important primary documents. While the estimate given is very modest, this lot is in some respects the heart and soul of the Margolis Library, and it is worthy of serious consideration.
France. PUBLICATIONS RELATING TO THE MONETARY SYSTEM OF FRANCE DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD THROUGH THE EARLY NAPOLEONIC ERA. An extensive collection, including seventy-one publications from various legislative assemblies (from l'Assemblée Nationale through le Corps Législatif) as well as privately printed publications addressing the questions surrounding the monetary reforms and the coinage. [For the full listing of the individual items, please see the pirnted or PDF catalogue.] An extraordinary group of these primary documents, of unparalleled importance to those interested in the development of the French monetary system and of modern French coinage. Any one of these documents could easily be treated as a separate lot in this sale, and most of them were in fact acquired by Richard Margolis in piecemeal fashion. To break apart what took him decades to bring together, however, would be unconscionable. This is a rare opportunity to acquire an exceptionally focused group of French governmental documents concerning coinage from the period of the Revolution and extending into the early years of the Napoleonic era. The authors include a wide array of political figures of the day. Virtually every aspect of the coinage reform is discussed in these important primary documents. While the estimate given is very modest, this lot is in some respects the heart and soul of the Margolis Library, and it is worthy of serious consideration.