Kolbe & Fanning
Auction 165 3 Dec 2022
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Near Complete Haseltine Catalogues
Haseltine, John W. AUCTION SALE CATALOGUES. Philadelphia & New York, 1872-1885. Seventy catalogues, being Adams Nos. 5-6, 8-9, 11-16, 18-22, 25-32, 34-35, 37-50, 52-54, 56-60, 62-83 and 85. 8vo, original printed paper covers. Sales 5, 27, 34, 54 and 57 are hand-priced in ink. Condition varies, but generally very good or better. A substantially complete set of 70 Haseltine auction catalogues, including some scarce ones. John W. Adams has written that "Over the years, the Haseltine catalogs have attracted little attention, even from advanced students. Such neglect is difficult to understand, the more so given that the man was the leading authority of his day in at least four branches of U.S. numismatics: colonial paper, Confederate paper, varieties of early silver and mint patterns. The ... sales are rich in all of these branches." John W. Haseltine was among the foremost professional numismatists of the Philadelphia scene for the half century spanning the 1870s through the 1920s. He catalogued 90 auction sales, including the Sylvester S. Crosby collection of colonial coins and the Harold P. Newlin collection of half dimes (both of which are here present). Enumerating the Haseltine series has always been complicated by the fact that he did not begin numbering his catalogues until more than halfway through the series. John W. Adams managed to bring order to the chaos with his 1982 United States Numismatic Literature, Volume I, revising his listing slightly in 2001, when he published his Additions & Corrections. The only complete set of Haseltine catalogues we have offered was that assembled by John W. Adams and sold in our Sale 150. The Fuld Library set was missing ten or so sales. Champa appears to have lacked two (Nos. 63 and the 1885-dated Sale 87, the latter of which had not been discovered when his library was sold--Sale 63 is present here). The Haseltine series remains underappreciated and awaits fuller attention than it has been given. Ex Cardinal Collection Library.
Estimate: 750 USD
Haseltine, John W. AUCTION SALE CATALOGUES. Philadelphia & New York, 1872-1885. Seventy catalogues, being Adams Nos. 5-6, 8-9, 11-16, 18-22, 25-32, 34-35, 37-50, 52-54, 56-60, 62-83 and 85. 8vo, original printed paper covers. Sales 5, 27, 34, 54 and 57 are hand-priced in ink. Condition varies, but generally very good or better. A substantially complete set of 70 Haseltine auction catalogues, including some scarce ones. John W. Adams has written that "Over the years, the Haseltine catalogs have attracted little attention, even from advanced students. Such neglect is difficult to understand, the more so given that the man was the leading authority of his day in at least four branches of U.S. numismatics: colonial paper, Confederate paper, varieties of early silver and mint patterns. The ... sales are rich in all of these branches." John W. Haseltine was among the foremost professional numismatists of the Philadelphia scene for the half century spanning the 1870s through the 1920s. He catalogued 90 auction sales, including the Sylvester S. Crosby collection of colonial coins and the Harold P. Newlin collection of half dimes (both of which are here present). Enumerating the Haseltine series has always been complicated by the fact that he did not begin numbering his catalogues until more than halfway through the series. John W. Adams managed to bring order to the chaos with his 1982 United States Numismatic Literature, Volume I, revising his listing slightly in 2001, when he published his Additions & Corrections. The only complete set of Haseltine catalogues we have offered was that assembled by John W. Adams and sold in our Sale 150. The Fuld Library set was missing ten or so sales. Champa appears to have lacked two (Nos. 63 and the 1885-dated Sale 87, the latter of which had not been discovered when his library was sold--Sale 63 is present here). The Haseltine series remains underappreciated and awaits fuller attention than it has been given. Ex Cardinal Collection Library.
Estimate: 750 USD