Kolbe & Fanning
Auction 164 27 Aug 2022
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Bangs, Merwin & Company. CATALOGUE OF THE VALUABLE AND EXTENSIVE CABINET OF AMERICAN AND FOREIGN COINS, TOKENS, MEDALS, &C. HEREIN MINUTELY DESCRIBED, THE PROPERTY OF WM. LEGGETT BRAMHALL, ESQ., LATE CURATOR OF THE AMERICAN NUMISMATIC SOCIETY. THIS IS UNDOUBTEDLY THE MOST COMPLETE COLLECTION OF AMERICAN COINS AND TOKENS EVER OFFERED AT PUBLIC SALE IN THIS CITY... New York, May 4-5, 1859. 8vo, bound by Alan Grace in green half calf with marbled sides; spine ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt; original front printed paper cover bound in. 31, (1) pages; 595 lots; additional binder's leaves added for bulk. Neatly hand-priced and named in ink. Printed sale announcement from S. Gerard Moses (possibly the cataloguer), bound in before sale. Binding nearly fine, with very good contents. A fantastic copy of this very scarce early catalogue of material from the collection of William Leggett Bramhall. This was bound by Alan Grace, while he was still in England, for Armand Champa, whose binding instructions are laid in. Bramhall, a collector from New York who had served as the second curator of the ANS, fought in the Civil War and was badly wounded in the head at the Battle of Wilderness on May 6, 1864. Apparently, he never fully recovered. Not listed by Adams. Attinelli 14. Ex Armand Champa Library (Davis/Bowers Part I, lot 51); ex Charles Horning Library (Davis Sale 55, lot 5); ex Phil Carrigan Library (Kolbe & Fanning Sale 153, lot 239; ex Cardinal Collection Library.
(Estimate: $300)
Bangs, Merwin & Company. CATALOGUE OF THE VALUABLE AND EXTENSIVE CABINET OF AMERICAN AND FOREIGN COINS, TOKENS, MEDALS, &C. HEREIN MINUTELY DESCRIBED, THE PROPERTY OF WM. LEGGETT BRAMHALL, ESQ., LATE CURATOR OF THE AMERICAN NUMISMATIC SOCIETY. THIS IS UNDOUBTEDLY THE MOST COMPLETE COLLECTION OF AMERICAN COINS AND TOKENS EVER OFFERED AT PUBLIC SALE IN THIS CITY... New York, May 4-5, 1859. 8vo, bound by Alan Grace in green half calf with marbled sides; spine ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt; original front printed paper cover bound in. 31, (1) pages; 595 lots; additional binder's leaves added for bulk. Neatly hand-priced and named in ink. Printed sale announcement from S. Gerard Moses (possibly the cataloguer), bound in before sale. Binding nearly fine, with very good contents. A fantastic copy of this very scarce early catalogue of material from the collection of William Leggett Bramhall. This was bound by Alan Grace, while he was still in England, for Armand Champa, whose binding instructions are laid in. Bramhall, a collector from New York who had served as the second curator of the ANS, fought in the Civil War and was badly wounded in the head at the Battle of Wilderness on May 6, 1864. Apparently, he never fully recovered. Not listed by Adams. Attinelli 14. Ex Armand Champa Library (Davis/Bowers Part I, lot 51); ex Charles Horning Library (Davis Sale 55, lot 5); ex Phil Carrigan Library (Kolbe & Fanning Sale 153, lot 239; ex Cardinal Collection Library.
(Estimate: $300)