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Bound Volume of 1885-1886 Frossard Sales Including a Chapman Bidbook
Frossard, Ed. AUCTION CATALOGUES, 1885-1886. New York, Geo. Leavitt & Co. 8vo, later red half morocco; spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt; original printed paper covers bound in. Includes sales dated: December 22, 1885; January 26-27, 1886; February 19-20, 1886; April 10, 1886; May 11-12, 1886; May 20-22, 1886; May 29, 1886; July 1-2, 1886; July 29, 1886; September 10, 1886; and November 23-24, 1886. Sales 48, 49, 51, 52, 58 and 59 are hand-priced, usually in ink. Sale 58 is a thick-paper copy. Sale 59 is the bidbook belonging to the Chapman brothers, and has buyers' names recorded along with the prices and other annotations. Sale 52 is a deaccessioned ANA Library copy, with their bookplate; Sale 53 is slightly trimmed from a previous binding. Eleven catalogues in one binding. Near fine. Adams 48-59 [No. 55 was never issued]. Includes a few very scarce sales, among which we would number Sales 53 and 54 (we are uncertain whether we've ever offered a stand-alone copy of either catalogue). Sale 48 offered the fantastic collection of Dr. William Lee, as well as the W.W. Thurston collection of fractional currency. Sale 59 is Part II of the so-called Russian Collection (Part I appeared in Sale 56). It is rated A- overall by Adams (A in ancients and general European); the copy in this volume is the Chapman brothers' bidbook, which is highly informative. By this time, Frossard was conducting all of his sales in association with the firm of George Leavitt & Company in New York, with whom he had extensive business arrangements. Frossard held his March 24-25, 1885 auction sale at Leavitt's auction rooms and the May 1885 issue of Numisma informed subscribers that correspondence should be sent to him care of that firm. Some of Frossard's non-numismatic sales would appear to have been written by him for Leavitt as works for hire. Ex John W. Adams Library (Kolbe & Fanning Sale 150, lot 214); ex Cardinal Collection Library.
(Estimate: $500)
Frossard, Ed. AUCTION CATALOGUES, 1885-1886. New York, Geo. Leavitt & Co. 8vo, later red half morocco; spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt; original printed paper covers bound in. Includes sales dated: December 22, 1885; January 26-27, 1886; February 19-20, 1886; April 10, 1886; May 11-12, 1886; May 20-22, 1886; May 29, 1886; July 1-2, 1886; July 29, 1886; September 10, 1886; and November 23-24, 1886. Sales 48, 49, 51, 52, 58 and 59 are hand-priced, usually in ink. Sale 58 is a thick-paper copy. Sale 59 is the bidbook belonging to the Chapman brothers, and has buyers' names recorded along with the prices and other annotations. Sale 52 is a deaccessioned ANA Library copy, with their bookplate; Sale 53 is slightly trimmed from a previous binding. Eleven catalogues in one binding. Near fine. Adams 48-59 [No. 55 was never issued]. Includes a few very scarce sales, among which we would number Sales 53 and 54 (we are uncertain whether we've ever offered a stand-alone copy of either catalogue). Sale 48 offered the fantastic collection of Dr. William Lee, as well as the W.W. Thurston collection of fractional currency. Sale 59 is Part II of the so-called Russian Collection (Part I appeared in Sale 56). It is rated A- overall by Adams (A in ancients and general European); the copy in this volume is the Chapman brothers' bidbook, which is highly informative. By this time, Frossard was conducting all of his sales in association with the firm of George Leavitt & Company in New York, with whom he had extensive business arrangements. Frossard held his March 24-25, 1885 auction sale at Leavitt's auction rooms and the May 1885 issue of Numisma informed subscribers that correspondence should be sent to him care of that firm. Some of Frossard's non-numismatic sales would appear to have been written by him for Leavitt as works for hire. Ex John W. Adams Library (Kolbe & Fanning Sale 150, lot 214); ex Cardinal Collection Library.
(Estimate: $500)