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Apparently Unknown Private Work on French Coinage

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Apparently Unknown Private Work on French Coinage
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Assalet, Commandant. NUMISMATIQUE FRANÇAISE DE LA 1E RÉPUBLIQUE (1792) À NOS JOURS. Chalon-sur-Saône, 1937. Twenty-five fascicules, apparently complete. 8vo [22.5 by 14.5 cm], original printed paper wraps; staple-bound at spine. Imprimé par le Nardigraphe, reproducing the author’s neat, diminutive handwriting. 374 pages, plus unnumbered prelims throughout. Folded for mailing, with some rear covers bearing postmarks, stamps and other signs of mailing (including tears). Very good or better. A mystery. This publication, issued in serial form between April and December 1937 and produced on a nardigraphe (somewhat similar to a mimeograph and widely used in France at the time), is lacking from every library we have checked, numismatic and otherwise. That it was printed (if crudely) and mailed implies that more than one copy was produced, but we have been unable to find any others. Each fascicle is signed Commandant Assalet, with no first name. [Online description truncated: see printed or PDF catalogue for full description.]