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Finely Bound Set of the Numismatic Review
Stack, Joseph B., and Morton M. Stack [publishers]. NUMISMATIC REVIEW: A SCIENTIFIC DIGEST PERTAINING TO COINS, MEDALS AND PAPER MONEY. Numbers 1-16 (New York, 1943-1947). Sixteen numbers complete, as issued in fourteen and bound in two volumes. 4to, later tan three-quarter morocco with cream cloth sides; spines with five raised bands, lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; top page edges gilt; front flyleaf versos signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with their diminutive stamp. 706 pages; 164 plates; other illustrations. One or two minor scuffs, else fine. Bourne 1940-3. A complete set of this impressive periodical, beautifully bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, one of the world's finest bookbinding firms. Publication of the Numismatic Review was short-lived, though it remains a source of useful information on a wide variety of numismatic topics. Edited by Thomas Ollive Mabbott, the Board of Advisors reads like a numismatic "Who's Who." Over three hundred brief monographs covering the entire range of numismatics are found in the pages of this interesting publication. Ex Charles Davis's auction of November 16, 2013, lot 458, at $700.
(Estimate: $500)
Stack, Joseph B., and Morton M. Stack [publishers]. NUMISMATIC REVIEW: A SCIENTIFIC DIGEST PERTAINING TO COINS, MEDALS AND PAPER MONEY. Numbers 1-16 (New York, 1943-1947). Sixteen numbers complete, as issued in fourteen and bound in two volumes. 4to, later tan three-quarter morocco with cream cloth sides; spines with five raised bands, lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; top page edges gilt; front flyleaf versos signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with their diminutive stamp. 706 pages; 164 plates; other illustrations. One or two minor scuffs, else fine. Bourne 1940-3. A complete set of this impressive periodical, beautifully bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, one of the world's finest bookbinding firms. Publication of the Numismatic Review was short-lived, though it remains a source of useful information on a wide variety of numismatic topics. Edited by Thomas Ollive Mabbott, the Board of Advisors reads like a numismatic "Who's Who." Over three hundred brief monographs covering the entire range of numismatics are found in the pages of this interesting publication. Ex Charles Davis's auction of November 16, 2013, lot 458, at $700.
(Estimate: $500)