Complete catalog

David R. Sear, Roman coins and their values, Second Revised Edition, Seaby, London 1974, pp. 376, richly illustrated, 12 plates, 23 cm, binding in all canvas ed. with gold titles on the spine.

Stamp of possession on the first card.

Dust jacket missing, in more than good condition.

Demetrio Del Rio, History and civilization of Rome through coins, Paleani Editore, Rome 1986, pp. 117, richly illustrated, 31 cm, cart. and. with titles in gold on front plate and dust jacket.

Series of studies on ancient Italy, 6.

Traces of use on the dust jacket, otherwise in very good condition.

Kenneth W. Harl, Civic coins and civic politics in the Roman East. AD 180-275, University of California Press, Berkeley 1987, pp. VIII, 253, 36 plates, 29 cm, full cloth binding ed. with gilt titles on spine and dust jacket.

Necklace: The transformation of the classical heritage, 12.

An excellent study with a rich bibliography.

In perfect condition. Rare.

Richard G. Doty, The history of money from antiquity to the present day, presentation by Gino Barbieri, introduction by Giovanni Gorini, Vallardi Industrie Grafiche, Lainate 1992, pp. 184, numerous black and white illustrations, 31 cm, binding on the entire editorial canvas with gold titles on the spine and dust jacket.

Beautiful bookplate inside the back plate.

In perfect condition.

Marvin Tameanko, Monumental coins. Buildings & structures in ancient coinage, Krause Publications, Iola 1999, pp. 242, richly illustrated, 30 cm, hardcover ed. with gilt titles on spine, front cover and dust jacket.

In perfect condition.

Agostino Olivieri, Coins and seals of the Centurioni-Scotti princes who are kept in the Royal University and in other collections of Genoa, Tipografia del RI de' Sordo-muti, Genoa 1862, pp. IV, 63, 1 splendid panel reproducing coins and seals, 27 cm, leatherette binding with gilt titles on the front cover, original editorial paperback preserved.

Usual browning, otherwise in excellent overall condition.

Very rare.

Luigi Simonetti, Handbook of medieval and modern Italian numismatics. From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution, vol. 2, Poggiali Typography, Ravenna 1967, pp. 616, 25 cm, splendid full leather binding with gold titles on the spine and embossed decorations on the spine and plates.

This is the second of only two volumes published for this work, in which 36 mints are analyzed, sorted alphabetically by Banias in Bologna.

Slight traces of use, otherwise in a more than good general state of conservation.

Mariano Leopoldo d'Avella, Funeral honors paid to the memory of Salvatore and Gio. Vinc. Fusco, Stamperia del Fibreno, Naples 1850, pp. VII, 367, splendid engravings in the text, 2 tablets. with the portraits of the Fusco, cm 27, elegant coeval half leather binding with titles and decorations in gold on the spine.

Neapolitan edition of great interest, full of numismatic references.

Traces of use and minimal abrasions to the binding, slight blooms and some signs of aging on the pages, however a discreet copy. Extremely rare.

Matteo Camera, Important discovery of the famous tareno of Amalfi and of another unpublished coin of the doge Mansone III, Stamperia del Fibreno, Naples 1872, pp. 38 with beautiful woodcut engravings of the coins presented, cm 24, br. and. blue protected by coeval blank paper.

A classic of 19th century numismatic literature.

Small stamp of belonging to the title page.

Some flowering, otherwise in excellent condition.

Extremely rare.

Costantino Baer, On gold coins and their legal value, Gaetano Nobile's Printing House, Naples 1854, pp. 66, cm 24, paperback ed. with titles and decorations protected by cover.

Elegant ex libris on the back cover.

Overall an excellent specimen. From research carried out, no copy of this publication has ever appeared on the market. Extremely rare Neapolitan edition.

Michele Arditi, Coin to fight as perpetual monument of the royal amnesty published by our august sovereign Ferdinand IV in favor of his subjects with his most clement proclamations sent from Palermo and Messina in May 1815. Epistolary memorial extended by cav. Arditi, director of the Museum Gifts, in the Chianese printing house, Naples 1815, pp. 44, splendid front panel engraved by Vacaturo, 24 cm, br. and.

Famous memory of Michele Arditi, illustrious archaeologist and numismatist, director of the excavations of the Kingdom of Naples.

Elegant ex libris on the first guard card.

In excellent condition. Extremely rare.

Summary of the weights and measures of capacity and foreign currencies of the main trading squares according to their yield in Naples, From the Printing House of the Ministry and Real Secretariat of State of the General Police, Naples 1826, pp. 31, coat of arms of the Giornale delle Due Sicilie on the title page, 19 cm, br. moult.

Specimen trimmed at the margins, however in excellent condition.

Extremely rare, missing in all specialized libraries listed.

Giuseppe Ruotolo, The Neapolitan coinage of the Bourbon era between damnatio memoriae and denigration, edited by Santino Bonsera, Basilicata Literary Prize Foundation, Potenza 2017, pp. 107-140, richly illustrated in col., 24 cm, br. and.

In perfect condition. Very rare.

P. & P. Santamaria, Coins of the Roman pontiffs, 27 April 1942, Grafica SA, Perugia 1942, pp. VIII, 135, 30 plates, cm 27, br. and.

The catalog presents 1493 coins of the popes of the various mints and gold medals.

Attached is the list of hammer prices.

In excellent condition. Very rare.

Rina La Guardia, The sixteenth century of the archaeological and numismatic library of Milan, Municipality of Milan, Division of culture and entertainment, Milan 1978, pp. 42, 70 plates, 23 cm, br. and.

Publication of considerable importance for the study of numismatic literature of the sixteenth century with a valid iconographic apparatus.

Slight traces of use on the paperback, otherwise in very good condition.

Yearbook of the Italian Numismatic Institute 1915-1916, at the headquarters of the Institute (Tip. Degli Artigianelli), Rome, 1915, pp. 45, ill., 18 cm, binding in half blue editorial canvas.

That of 1915-1916 was the first and only yearbook of the Italian numismatic institute to be published. The volume opens with the history of the foundation of the glorious Institute, followed by: the list of members (divided between honorary, ordinary and correspondents), the statute of the Association, the presentation of the Salinas Award, the alphabetical list of members with their address, etc.

Unknown to specialized repertories, this periodical was recently examined in the article by Giuseppe Ruotolo, Yearbook of the Italian Numismatic Institute, published in Progresso Numismatico of April 2020.

In excellent condition. Extremely rare.

Ch. Florange, Monnaies et medailles. Librairie numismatique, Catalog de medailles francaises et etrangeres, Imprimerie Lefebvre-Ducrocq, Lille 1928, pp. 20, richly illustrated, 14 cm, br. and. protected by br. coeval moult.

The catalog features 241 lots.

Publication embellished with ex libris by Camillo Orlando.

In excellent condition. Very rare.

Nicomede Bianchi, The medals of the third Italian Risorgimento. Years 1748-1848, Nicola Zanichelli, Bologna 1881, pp. 339, 19 cm, fine coeval half leather binding with gold titles and decorations on the spine and marbled paper plates.

In excellent condition. Rare.

P. & P. Santamaria, Vente aux enchères publiques de la collection de Medailles Grecques et Romaines, Aes Grave, livres de numismatique, histoire, archeologie, appartenant au Dr. Paul Hartwig, 7 March 1910, Società Tip. Editrice Romana, Rome 1910, pp. VI, 221, title page in black and red, splendid headers and illustrations of coins interspersed in the text, 28 pls. of coins, 28 cm, cart. coeval decorated with a morocco label and gold titles and fillets on the spine, the red paperback preserved.

The catalog presents 2335 lots, including: 842 ancient Greek coins of which 695 from Italian mints, 30 aes grave, 174 republican denarii, 960 imperial coins, 306 books.

Attached is the list of clearing prices, pp. 11.

In excellent condition. Very rare.

Palmiero Palmieri, Opera omnia, S. Bernardino Graphic Arts Establishment, Siena 1917, pp. 142 with beautiful small headings, richly illustrated, 4 large folded geographical maps, 25 cm, br. and. with titles in red and black.

Collection of studies by the Tuscan numismatist Palmiero Palmieri (1873-1925): Unpublished coins of the House of Savoy (illustrated); The populace of the Florentine Republic (illustrated); Lucca. Denarius of Conrad I Emperor 1016-1030 (illustrated); The last coin minted in Casale Monferrato (illustrated); An Imitation Sienese Coin (illustrated); Contribution to the Corpus Nummorum Italicorum (illustrated). To the numismatic writings are added contributions from other disciplines: Notes on agricultural geology; Alfalfa (gleaning from old pages); Excursion in the country of the Cunama (Colonia Eritrea). Palmiero Palmieri donated his rich coin collection and his library to the Archaeological Museum of Siena.

Text embellished with a long dedication by the author, dated March 1920, on the first flyleaf.

In excellent condition.

Extremely rare due to the limited edition.

Vincenzo Capobianchi, The origins of the gallic weight, R. Roman Society of Homeland History, Rome 1904, pp. 50, ill., 25 cm, br. and.

Publication embellished with an autographed dedication by the author on the front cover.

In excellent condition and partially intact. Very rare.

Emanuela Ercolani Cocchi, The numismatic material of the ancient age, sn, Rimini 1980, pp. 210-229, richly illustrated, 23 cm, br. and.

Extract from: Analysis of ancient Rimini. History and archeology for a museum, 1980.

In excellent condition. Rare.

Don't des. Coins, exchanges and banks from antiquity to the present day, Civic Archaeological Museum, Bergamo 2005, pp. 42, many illustrations of coins, 30 cm.

Contribution to the exhibition, held at the Civic Archaeological Museum of Bergamo from 20 November 2004 to 30 June 2005, which retraced the history of money, with particular attention to the local aspects of the Gallic, Roman and early medieval ages, through specimens from the civic collections and some monetary issues found in the Bergamo area. Among these, an important hoard of 124 Po Valley silver drachmas found in Verdello and some examples of the issues of the Bergamo mint, from the time of Federico I Barbarossa up to the Republic of Venice.

In excellent condition. Very rare.

Lorenzo Bellesia, Research on Emilian mints, vol. 1, Guastalla, Numismatica Grigoli, Suzzara 1995, pp. 234, richly illustrated, 5 plates, 30 cm, binding in all canvas ed. with gold titles on the spine, front plate and dust jacket.

In perfect condition.