Kolbe & Fanning
Auction 165 3 Dec 2022
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The Loubat Leaf Book
Adams, John W., et al. THE MAGNUM OPUS OF JOSEPH FLORIMOND LOUBAT: A LEAF BOOK. Newtown: Bird & Bull Press [Henry Morris], 2007. Crown 4to, original red quarter morocco with Japanese silk boards with mounted roundel printed by Morris; spine with black morocco label, gilt. 59, (15) pages; 4-page insert of stochastic printed illustrations of Comitia Americana medals; 2-page insert from Morris's letterpress edition of Adams and Bentley's Comitia Americana book; two leaves from Loubat's The Medallic History of the United States of America included in the pagination, as is a reproduction of the 1878 title page for Loubat. Fine. Number 26 of an edition of 150 copies printed on Zerkall mouldmade paper. A remarkable production that combines a classic of 19th-century American numismatic literature with the finest printing of 21st-century America. The book includes essays by Pete Smith, George F. Kolbe, John W. Adams and Henry Morris, and is very enjoyable to read. It is also a work of art, as Morris's printing makes clear. A leaf book, it includes two actual leaves from Loubat's Medallic History: this copy includes Plates XLIII and LII (the Brigadier General James Miller and Governor Isaac Shelby medals). It also includes a leaf from the Henry Morris letterpress edition of the Adams and Bentley Comitia Americana volume. Kolbe 230.
Estimate: 150 USD
Adams, John W., et al. THE MAGNUM OPUS OF JOSEPH FLORIMOND LOUBAT: A LEAF BOOK. Newtown: Bird & Bull Press [Henry Morris], 2007. Crown 4to, original red quarter morocco with Japanese silk boards with mounted roundel printed by Morris; spine with black morocco label, gilt. 59, (15) pages; 4-page insert of stochastic printed illustrations of Comitia Americana medals; 2-page insert from Morris's letterpress edition of Adams and Bentley's Comitia Americana book; two leaves from Loubat's The Medallic History of the United States of America included in the pagination, as is a reproduction of the 1878 title page for Loubat. Fine. Number 26 of an edition of 150 copies printed on Zerkall mouldmade paper. A remarkable production that combines a classic of 19th-century American numismatic literature with the finest printing of 21st-century America. The book includes essays by Pete Smith, George F. Kolbe, John W. Adams and Henry Morris, and is very enjoyable to read. It is also a work of art, as Morris's printing makes clear. A leaf book, it includes two actual leaves from Loubat's Medallic History: this copy includes Plates XLIII and LII (the Brigadier General James Miller and Governor Isaac Shelby medals). It also includes a leaf from the Henry Morris letterpress edition of the Adams and Bentley Comitia Americana volume. Kolbe 230.
Estimate: 150 USD