Used Book Store Haul
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I visited a somewhat-nearby used book store a few times this year, as they had in a good part of a numismatic library in stock, just an overwhelming amount. Over those trips I purchased about three boxes worth of books and catalogs.
Auction catalogs
Fords
More catalogs
Books
In addition to the estate these are from, some were also previously from well known numismatics:
Hardbound auction catalogs and RCR #100
World's Greatest Collection
Stack's in the 1970s
Elder's Miller sale, Mehl's Geiss, and Stack's first sale
Woodward's McCoy sale, 1864
Can anyone identify this signature?
The used book store is located in the county the following picture was taken from. Even after my boxes, there were still a good line of full shelves of numismatic literature left. I'm willing to reveal the store. All I ask is that you purchase what is needed or wanted for your library, not for a quick flip (and there certainly are plenty of those available). There are numerous Bowers catalogs including Garretts, Eliasbergs, Norwebs, and Taylor, Stack's, Superior, some Goldberg, Heritage. Multiple SCWCs, Friedburgs for paper and world gold. A hardbound Ford XIII. Bound volumes of The Numismatist, Scrapbook, CCJ (Raymond), Whitman Numismatic Journal. An inordinate number of hardbound foreign catalogs. Oh, and everything above was $8/hardback and $4/softcover, except for Garrett/Guth and the Trompeter catalog.
Their website also has much numismatic literature for sale. Those are more reasonably (aka higher) priced. But while I've not looked recently, I recall them having the early dime book, Logan/McCloskey, both Breen/Gillio editions, and plenty more.
Auction catalogs
Fords
More catalogs
Books
In addition to the estate these are from, some were also previously from well known numismatics:
Hardbound auction catalogs and RCR #100
World's Greatest Collection
Stack's in the 1970s
Elder's Miller sale, Mehl's Geiss, and Stack's first sale
Woodward's McCoy sale, 1864
Can anyone identify this signature?
The used book store is located in the county the following picture was taken from. Even after my boxes, there were still a good line of full shelves of numismatic literature left. I'm willing to reveal the store. All I ask is that you purchase what is needed or wanted for your library, not for a quick flip (and there certainly are plenty of those available). There are numerous Bowers catalogs including Garretts, Eliasbergs, Norwebs, and Taylor, Stack's, Superior, some Goldberg, Heritage. Multiple SCWCs, Friedburgs for paper and world gold. A hardbound Ford XIII. Bound volumes of The Numismatist, Scrapbook, CCJ (Raymond), Whitman Numismatic Journal. An inordinate number of hardbound foreign catalogs. Oh, and everything above was $8/hardback and $4/softcover, except for Garrett/Guth and the Trompeter catalog.
Their website also has much numismatic literature for sale. Those are more reasonably (aka higher) priced. But while I've not looked recently, I recall them having the early dime book, Logan/McCloskey, both Breen/Gillio editions, and plenty more.
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Ed. S.
(EJS)
Ed. S.
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My own local used bookstores rarely have much more than common Red Books and maybe a few very recent auction catalogs.
I'd love to spend an afternoon carefully turning the pages of the McCoy sale!
Is there a theater that puts on plays near that book store? .
<< <i>... Can anyone identify this signature?
Very nice assortment. Looks like you've come upon the remnants of the numismatic library of William S. Vaux, one of eight founders of the
Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, and its Senior Vice-President.
Another of the society's founders was none other than Joseph J. Mickley, the father of American Numismatics. The Director of the US Mint was also an honorary member of the Society.
Nice find!
Google search comes up with this:
William Sandys Wright Vaux
According to Wikipedia:
William Sandys Wright Vaux FRS (28 February 1818 – 21 June 1885), was a celebrated British antiquary of the 19th century.
Vaux was born in 1818 in Oxford. He was the only son of William Vaux (d. 1844), prebendary of Winchester Cathedral and vicar of Wanborough, Wiltshire. He was educated at Westminster School from 1831 to 1836, and matriculated from Balliol College, Oxford, on 18 March 1836, graduating BA 1840 and M.A. 1842.
In 1841 he entered the department of antiquities of the British Museum, and in January 1861 became the keeper of the department of coins and medals, a post which, owing to ill-health, he resigned in October 1870.
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Edward
He who knows he has enough is rich.
- Jim
From 1871 to 1876 he was engaged in cataloguing the coins in the Bodleian Library. From 1846 he was a member of the Numismatic Society, and—according to the Dictionary of National Biography--to his friendly care much of the success of that body is due. In 1852 he became one of the secretaries, and for some time assisted John Yonge Akerman in editing the first series of the Numismatic Chronicle, in which he himself wrote twenty-five papers. In 1855 he was elected president, and remained in office until 1874.
He who knows he has enough is rich.
The Wm. S. Vaux that I referenced was stateside and lived until 1882, while your Vaux was across the pond.
Close, but no cigar!
Interesting that two numismatists with such similar names lived at the same time. Probably related, I'd guess.
<< <i>Sorry, Philographer!
The Wm. S. Vaux that I referenced was stateside and lived until 1882, while your Vaux was across the pond.
Close, but no cigar!
Interesting that two numismatists with such similar names lived at the same time. Probably related, I'd guess. >>
Ya got me! Maybe cousins. They both liked coins
He who knows he has enough is rich.
Maybe this coin:
If you got that catalog for $4, it probably paid for the rest.
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<< <i>... Can anyone identify this signature?
Very nice assortment. Looks like you've come upon the remnants of the numismatic library of William S. Vaux, one of eight founders of the
Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, and its Senior Vice-President.
Another of the society's founders was none other than Joseph J. Mickley, the father of American Numismatics. The Director of the US Mint was also an honorary member of the Society.
Nice find! >>
Thanks. That has to be it. I was able to figure it was William ---x, and a search of American Numismatic Biographies did not turn up anything. Prior to the estate these were from, this volume was sold in Charles Davis's 1997 sale of the Henry Chapman and NASP's libraries as lot 173, but wasn't specific as to which of the two this was from. I have the catalog but not the PRL for that sale if anyone wants to tell me what it sold for in 1997.
Ed. S.
(EJS)
<< <i>If you got that catalog for $4, it probably paid for the rest. >>
As paraphrasing the clerk, "this one's small, it'll be $2."
Ed. S.
(EJS)
And the two Gerber catalogs are Mexican classics. The Paul Karon sale is also great.
Hammel and Glennies Cut & Countermark too!
Amazing haul! I dream of the day I find a similar situation!!!
Jim
K
Whatever you are, be a good one. ---- Abraham Lincoln
I have a copy I snagged off eBay about 10-12 years ago which is in similar condition as yours. Any interior annotations by the lot #s?
<< <i>At one time George Kolbe had an 1864 McCoy listed at about $500-600, IIRC.
I have a copy I snagged off eBay about 10-12 years ago which is in similar condition as yours. Any interior annotations by the lot #s? >>
Finally got around to skimming it last night, trying to not fold it open too much. There are no annotations, and apparently without the two addenda mentioned in Adams.
Ed. S.
(EJS)
<< <i>Wow is right. >>