Echkels literature survey is excellent Let me rephrase. Pellerin covers only Greek and is profusely illustrated. So to my is a highly attractive...
nah mostly worthless or cheap. It's almost embarrassing how cheap books are if you know where to look many of these shelves are folio sized and...
Prior thread covered my pure history books: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-history-books.381631/ Following are pure numismatic books, almost...
By smaller sellers I mean companies such as Baldwin's (which no longer does any auctions so not on the list), Harlan J.Berk (ditto) and Ed Waddell...
The good list is Heritage Goldberg NAC / Naville CNG Roma Hess Divo Kuenker Nomos Aureo Calico These nine auction companies are the only ones...
This is a great great story Thank you In a few days I'll start posting coin books, Antiquarian to begin with
These are very beautiful books. Precautions: my library is in a North facing glass walled gallery that gets little direct sunlight but quite a...
Ha! Very real indeed. But these are only my HISTORY books. I've way more Antiquarian COIN books. Which I'll post on another thread. And my coins...
No it's not a joke. Boris wrote a popular mass selling book about ancient Roman history (and modern lessons to be learnt). Same basic genre as all...
Yup. And I copied Fry and Beard (who follows me on twitter) on the tweet of this shelf. Am imagining a sharp intake of breath from both.
Appian Romane Warres translation, Shakespeare plagiarised bits, whole paragraphs, for Antony and Cleo, black-letter 1578 print; Plutarch Lives...
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I bought a book from an Italian seller recently. It came with the same format export permit as one sees for coins (but rarely nowadays). Seller...
Yes agree it is true. Many book collectors dislike early semi soft vellum bindings which tend to look rather tatty and prefer to rebind or buy...
Lovely! Your wines are similarly aged but generally better quality clarets than mine! Enjoy!
No I don't do this. I regularly lick my books. The usual alternate location for my books is on the floor under a pile of other books. Or on a...
Agree, but the other factor is shelf length. My shelves are very short. Built by this company: https://www.thebookcaseco.co.uk/ to my specs....
The Map is Strozzi's numismatic atlas. Green shaded parts seem mostly to be Roman provinces added late to the empire such as Dacia, Armenia,...
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Hand writing is John Pett at Spink. Tickets like this date from 1980s to 2000s so over a 3 decade period. Fair chance, probably 70%, this coin was...
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