Kolbe & Fanning
Auction 164 27 Aug 2022
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Nearly Complete Set of Edward Cogan Catalogues
Cogan, Edward. AUCTION SALE CATALOGUES. Philadelphia & New York, 1858-1879. Sixty-five different catalogues: Adams Nos. 1, 5-8, 10-57, 59-70. Includes plated copies of Sale 24 (Allan, with 8 plates) and Sale 27 (Montreal, with 1 plate). Sale 20 (Mackenzie) includes loose and water-stained examples of three of the five plates issued. Sales 18, 19, 20, 21, 37, 41 and 42 are individually bound in 19th-century volumes. Sale 1 and 7 are in later bindings. Sales 8, 11, 18, 21, 37, 41, 42, 44, 46, 48, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 66 and 70 are hand-priced. Sale 1 has printed prices realized, as issued. Sale 28 has printed prices realized clipped and pasted into the margins. Varying formats, nearly all 8vo in original printed paper covers unless indicated otherwise. The plated Allan sale is very good or so; the plated Montreal is very good or better. Lot also included is Charles Davis's 1994 reprint of Cogan's first four sales, providing copies of Sales 2-4 not otherwise included. Generally very good or better. A very strong set of Cogan catalogues, lacking only one regular-issue catalogue (Adams 58) for completion--the present set otherwise lacks only Sales 2-4 and Sale 9, the last of which was the de Haven collection, which was catalogued by Cogan but sold privately en bloc to William Lilliendahl. The first four Cogan auctions were conducted by manuscript at Cogan's store: catalogues were only printed later. The first catalogue was printed in 1863 by Cogan himself; Sales 2-4 were printed by E.J. Attinelli, presumably after Sale 1 had been printed. Attinelli's printings of Sales 2-4 were very small: only 25 copies of each were produced. Today, they are exceptionally rare. This is one of the finest sets extant of these foundational auction catalogues. A number of the catalogues here present are very scarce. Sales 7 and 17, both here present, are genuinely rare. Adams page 17: "Edward Cogan, our first coin dealer, has been called the father of U.S. coin collecting... The Cogan series of seventy auction catalogs ... is important if only because it embodies the deliberate thought of one of our hobby's great pioneers... Taking the Cogan series as a whole, it is strongest in early silver, large cents, half cents and colonials in that approximate order. Also well represented are patterns, of which there are several first appearances, and the coinage of the author's native England." A rare opportunity. Ex Cardinal Collection Library.
(Estimate: $2000)
Cogan, Edward. AUCTION SALE CATALOGUES. Philadelphia & New York, 1858-1879. Sixty-five different catalogues: Adams Nos. 1, 5-8, 10-57, 59-70. Includes plated copies of Sale 24 (Allan, with 8 plates) and Sale 27 (Montreal, with 1 plate). Sale 20 (Mackenzie) includes loose and water-stained examples of three of the five plates issued. Sales 18, 19, 20, 21, 37, 41 and 42 are individually bound in 19th-century volumes. Sale 1 and 7 are in later bindings. Sales 8, 11, 18, 21, 37, 41, 42, 44, 46, 48, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 66 and 70 are hand-priced. Sale 1 has printed prices realized, as issued. Sale 28 has printed prices realized clipped and pasted into the margins. Varying formats, nearly all 8vo in original printed paper covers unless indicated otherwise. The plated Allan sale is very good or so; the plated Montreal is very good or better. Lot also included is Charles Davis's 1994 reprint of Cogan's first four sales, providing copies of Sales 2-4 not otherwise included. Generally very good or better. A very strong set of Cogan catalogues, lacking only one regular-issue catalogue (Adams 58) for completion--the present set otherwise lacks only Sales 2-4 and Sale 9, the last of which was the de Haven collection, which was catalogued by Cogan but sold privately en bloc to William Lilliendahl. The first four Cogan auctions were conducted by manuscript at Cogan's store: catalogues were only printed later. The first catalogue was printed in 1863 by Cogan himself; Sales 2-4 were printed by E.J. Attinelli, presumably after Sale 1 had been printed. Attinelli's printings of Sales 2-4 were very small: only 25 copies of each were produced. Today, they are exceptionally rare. This is one of the finest sets extant of these foundational auction catalogues. A number of the catalogues here present are very scarce. Sales 7 and 17, both here present, are genuinely rare. Adams page 17: "Edward Cogan, our first coin dealer, has been called the father of U.S. coin collecting... The Cogan series of seventy auction catalogs ... is important if only because it embodies the deliberate thought of one of our hobby's great pioneers... Taking the Cogan series as a whole, it is strongest in early silver, large cents, half cents and colonials in that approximate order. Also well represented are patterns, of which there are several first appearances, and the coinage of the author's native England." A rare opportunity. Ex Cardinal Collection Library.
(Estimate: $2000)