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Offline Steve Moulding

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Bookplates
« on: December 08, 2021, 01:20:50 pm »
Hi all, I've read some threads here that mention - in passing - numismatic bookplates. Perhaps a dedicated thread where we can show some of them would be interesting?
I do have a few in my library and will start things off with a nice one from a bound 1912 Jacob Hirsch auction catalog, formerly in Oscar Ravel's library.


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Re: Bookplates
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2021, 01:27:32 pm »
Great idea for a thread.

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Re: Bookplates
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2021, 02:50:11 pm »
Great idea!
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Re: Bookplates
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2021, 04:02:53 pm »
Bookplates and numismatic autographs perhaps, to broaden it a little?

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Re: Bookplates
« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2021, 04:37:12 pm »
Hi Mauseus, sure! Sounds good to me  :)

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Re: Bookplates
« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2021, 07:34:15 pm »
Here's an interesting one - eminent numismatist with a more famous brother!

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In this volume dedicated to the memory of Albert Baldwin:

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Re: Bookplates
« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2021, 10:27:28 pm »

I have a few that are ex-Bastien

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Re: Bookplates
« Reply #7 on: December 09, 2021, 10:55:21 pm »
Thanks Aidan and Victor! They're great. I've also seen Bastien's plate on my travels; yours is a nice example.

Aidan, for some reason I can only see your images from my phone. On my home desktop, instead of images I just see a large "Stop Sign" symbol instead of each image. It could well be my fault (some site-blocker in my browser). Are they hosted images or you uploaded them? (not sure if that makes a difference). I can see Victor's no problem.

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Re: Bookplates
« Reply #8 on: December 09, 2021, 11:13:29 pm »
Hi all, this one came from my copy of the Bement Greek sale, Naville VI, 1924. The catalog was from the library of J. Pedersen in Boras, Sweden. In searching online for more information about him I did see other examples of this plate in past literature sales where he was described as a 'famous coin dealer', but nothing further as yet.

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Re: Bookplates
« Reply #9 on: December 10, 2021, 07:59:23 am »
Silly question then: do any forum members still follow this practise? If yes, what is your plate? How do you produce and affix them? Any other nuggets of wisdom?
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Re: Bookplates
« Reply #10 on: December 10, 2021, 08:55:02 am »
How about both a bookplate and a numismatic autograph on the same book.

Le Monnayage de Magnence, sent to Georges Le Rider for his numismatic library by Pierre Bastien.

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Re: Bookplates
« Reply #11 on: December 10, 2021, 09:51:54 am »
Here is a numismatic autograph in my copy of RIC VII.

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Re: Bookplates
« Reply #12 on: December 10, 2021, 10:13:48 am »
From David Hendin

Will need to get him to sign another on the new 6th Edition.

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Re: Bookplates
« Reply #13 on: December 10, 2021, 07:41:10 pm »
Thanks Aidan and Victor! They're great. I've also seen Bastien's plate on my travels; yours is a nice example.

Aidan, for some reason I can only see your images from my phone. On my home desktop, instead of images I just see a large "Stop Sign" symbol instead of each image. It could well be my fault (some site-blocker in my browser). Are they hosted images or you uploaded them? (not sure if that makes a difference). I can see Victor's no problem.

Cheers,

Steve

Hi Steve,

I didn't upload them here, just linked from Google Photos - I'm not sure why there's a problem with viewing on a desktop.

Hmm!

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Re: Bookplates
« Reply #14 on: December 10, 2021, 08:22:49 pm »
I can't see them either.  The links begin "lh3.googleusercontent.com/fife".  Perhaps that is someone's Google drive that you have access too but we don't?

You may need to download the images, then attach them here.

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Re: Bookplates
« Reply #15 on: December 10, 2021, 08:30:38 pm »
I could see them on my laptop but now i can't see them on my tablet.

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Re: Bookplates
« Reply #16 on: December 10, 2021, 08:33:21 pm »
Sorry - here are the attachments!

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Re: Bookplates
« Reply #17 on: December 10, 2021, 09:39:29 pm »
Hi Aidan, Great!..that worked. Thank you.

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Re: Bookplates
« Reply #18 on: December 10, 2021, 09:53:12 pm »
A different Baldwin, this is one of Agnes Baldwin's bookplates from a 1908 catalog. I like it very much.

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Re: Bookplates
« Reply #19 on: December 11, 2021, 12:58:02 am »
Not a bookplate, but I do have an autographed copy of Sear's 1970 Revised Edition. Not sure who Miss Rose is or was, but I saw this for resale online many years ago while looking for the Republican and Early Imperial volume and picked it up.

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Re: Bookplates
« Reply #20 on: December 11, 2021, 11:14:00 am »
Silly question then: do any forum members still follow this practise? If yes, what is your plate? How do you produce and affix them? Any other nuggets of wisdom?

Hi Ron, it's a good question. Personally, I don't use bookplates and never have, but I do like the connection they give to a former owner. Sometimes you wonder who they were. Sometimes it's much more obvious!

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Re: Bookplates
« Reply #21 on: December 11, 2021, 11:36:02 am »
I would love to see any forum member's personal ex libris stickers.  I am thinking of designing some and having them printed.

I would also love to hear from you, Victor, which books of Bastien's library you have - he is a hero of mine.

Here are three of mine.

First, another of Georges Le Rider - this on in Howgego's Greek Imperial Countermarks.

Second, my favorite, from the English Historian of the Middle Ages Sir Charles Oman, in a 1928 hard copy of Mattingly's Roman Coins - a forum coins purchase.

Third, the most interesting, the stamps on a copy of Eddy's ANS NNM #156 that I picked up at a coin show in Montreal several years ago.  The stamps meant nothing to me until I read the book and discovered that Rev. I.C.G. Campbell was the owner of the Smyrna hoard that the book is about.  This was clearly the copy sent to him and then appears to have been donated later to the U Nebraska and then deaccessioned.

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Re: Bookplates
« Reply #22 on: December 11, 2021, 12:36:45 pm »

here are the auction descriptions for the two ex- Bastien I have.

Ars Classica/Naville et Cie. NO. XII. CATALOGUE DE MONNAIES GRECQUES ET ROMAINES, QUELQUES MÉDAILLES DE LA RENAISSANCE ET DES TEMPS MODERNES, PIERRE GRAVÉES, BIBLIOTHÈQUE NUMISMATIQUE COMPOSANT LES COLLECTIONS DE FEU E. BISSEN DE COPENHAGUE, DE M. JULES WERTHEIM DE BERLIN, DE SIR ARTHUR J. EVANS DE YOULBURY, BERKS, F.S.A., M.A., D.LITT., LL.D., PH.D., F.R.S., F.B.A., DE LA SÉRIE PARTHE DE FEU ALEXANDRE DE PETROWICZ ET DE PLUSIERS AUTRES AMATEURS. Lucerne, 18-23 octobre 1926. 4to, contemporary green cloth and marbled boards; spine lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; original printed card covers bound in. (6), 207, (1) pages; 3172 lots; 88 fine plates depicting all single-coin lots; 1 monogram plate. Neatly priced in ink. Near fine. Ex Louis Ciani Library, with his name impressed in gilt at the base of the spine; ex Pierre Bastien Library, with his bookplate. Clain-Stefanelli 3047. Grierson 280, 282. Spring 481 [also listed under "Most important sales of Celtic coins," "Most important sales of ancient Greek coins" and "Most important sales of Roman Imperial coins"].


Bank Leu & Co. AG and Münzen und Medaillen AG. SAMMLUNG WALTER NIGGELER. 1.-4. TEIL: GRIECHISCHE MÜNZEN. RÖMISCHE MÜNZEN. SCHWEIZ. ITALIEN. Basel, 1965-1967. Four catalogues complete, bound in one volume. 4to, later tan linen and marbled boards; red spine label, gilt. Frontispiece portrait; 67, (1) + 63, (1) + 64 + 28 pages; 1604 + 250 lots; 116 plates in all. Estimate lists bound in. Near fine. Ex Pierre Bastien Library, with his bookplate. The complete set of catalogues of this notable collection. Clain-Stefanelli 1981. Daehn 2025. Grierson 285. Spring 412-414 [412 also listed under "Most important sales of ancient Greek coins"; 413 also listed under "Most important sales of struck Roman Republican coins" and Roman Imperial coins"; 414 also listed under "Most important sales of Roman Imperial coins"].

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Re: Bookplates
« Reply #23 on: December 11, 2021, 12:46:36 pm »
Thanks for sharing Victor.  Wow, what a library he must have had.

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Re: Bookplates
« Reply #24 on: December 11, 2021, 05:35:35 pm »
Thank you for sharing.  I have a few numismatic books with bookplates or signatures of past numismatists but nothing of any particular note. 

There was a good CoinsWeekly article by Ursula Kampmann on the subject last year.
https://coinsweekly.com/numismatic-bookplates-a-wonderful-field-of-collection/

There is also an interesting Polish website that catalogues numismatic book plates.  Takes some time to navigate the images but there are some fun ones to be found. 
http://vladekg.pl/exlibris/

I particularly like this one that is Ex libris Szigeti Andra.

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