Watch List notes:

Schlichtegroll, Friedrich. ANNALEN DER GESAMMTEN NUMISMATIK. ERSTER BAND. Leipzig: in der Baumgärtnerschen Buchhandlung, 1804. 4to, contemporary brown speckled quarter calf with marbled boards; spine ruled and decorated in gilt with inlaid black morocco volume label; green spine label gilt. xii, 202 pages; 6 engraved folding plates, consisting of a fine folding map of Sicily, one plate depicting ancient Greek coins and four plates depicting modern medals and coins, including three 18th-century American silver coins. Near fine. [with] Schlichtegroll, Friedrich. ANNALEN DER GESAMMTEN NUMISMATIK. ZWEYTER BAND. ERSTES HEFT. Gotha: bey Steudel und Keil, 1806. 4to, somewhat later marbled boards; original printed paper covers bound in. 60 pages; 3 engraved folding plates depicting ancient coins and two depicting modern medals and coins. Moderate staining; very good. All published. Schlichtegroll's journal include serious articles and reviews (including a review of Lipsius's recently published bibliography), but also sections aimed at collectors. Hadrien Rambach has written that "When the Annalen der gesammten Numismatik were launched in 1804 by Adolf [Heinrich Freidrich] Schlichtegroll (the archaeologist in charge of the Gotha coin cabinet), who described them as »a literary magazine dedicated to science«, the editor did not mind having a bought-and-sold section in his journal" ("A List of Coin Dealers in Nineteenth-Century Germany," page 63). Schlichtegroll (1765–1822) is best remembered today for being the first biographer of Mozart. The presence of American coins in the plates underscores the fact that collecting American coins was popular in Europe from the very beginning. Rarely offered. Leitzmann 125.