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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 24610514, member: 110350&quot;]I haven&#039;t posted here in a very long time, but I couldn&#039;t resist this topic, since I love old books at least as much as I do old coins!</p><p><br /></p><p>Like many of you, the substantial majority of my numismatic library these days consists of links to online copies of relevant books and articles, and of pdf files I&#039;ve downloaded to my hard drive. But I do still have, and occasionally buy, quite a few hard copies -- especially when they&#039;re not available online -- and sometimes find them easier to consult in my hands than on my computer.</p><p><br /></p><p>These two shelves contain almost all of my books on ancient Roman Republican, Imperial, and Provincial coins (including quite a few on Roman Alexandrian coins alone, towards the right on the top shelf), as well as a couple of books on ancient Greek coins.&nbsp; Certainly it&#039;s nowhere near as many as some of you, but I&#039;m still happy I have them!</p><p><br /></p><p>(The ones on the far right of the second shelf mostly have nothing to do with ancient coins, although the first two, concerning &quot;medals,&quot; do discuss them. They&#039;re &quot;antiquarian&quot; books primarily about English coins.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the resolution is high enough that it&#039;s possible to read all or most of the titles if one zooms in on the photo.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1564358[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>As others are posting photos of non-ancient books, here are some of mine.</p><p><br /></p><p>Shelves of English and other world coin books, beginning with those same antiquarian books:</p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1564359[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1564360[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Books about British historical and commemorative medals and other exonumia:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1564361[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Books about other historical and commemorative medals, mostly French, including Napoleonic medals, &quot;art&quot; medals, medals of Louis XIV, etc. I also have a couple of large volumes on Renaissance medals, which I keep elsewhere with my art books. In other words, with books about other art that I&#039;ll never be able to afford to buy!</p><p><br /></p><p>Most of the well-known books on Napoleonic and other French medals that I don&#039;t own, particularly the ones published in the 19th and early 20th centuries, are available online, primarily through gallica.bnf.fr.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1564362[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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