Auction Details
Workman's Books is conducting its Fifth sale and Part III of Selections from the library of long-time dealer, collector, and author, Holland Wallace. The sale will include rare, vintage, and out-of-print numismatic books, auction sale catalogs, dealer fixed price lists, and numismatic journals with subject matter focusing on the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central & South America, Europe, Portugal, Spain, Spanish colonial, Islamic, and Asain numismatics. The selections for this sale include important works and sales by Album, Bailey, Breton, Bruns, Burzio, Calbeto, Calico, Cayon, Chapman, Christie's, Christensen, Douglas, Elder, Ferrari, Gadoury, Glendining, Grove, Leroux, Low, Medina, Ponterio, Pradeau, Pridmore, Prober, Schulman, Sellschopp, Sotheby's, Stack's, Superior, and many others. Accompanying the Wallace library is a sizeable consignment of books, catalogs, magazines, maps, and ephemera on shipwrecks, sunken treasure, lost treasure, treasure hunting, lost mines, and treasure in the American West. The sale will begin October 22, 2022 at 10:00 AM EST. Be sure to register!
Auction Sale Order:
Session 1: Lots 1-622 (10hr +)
Books: Lots 1 to 329
Auction Catalogs & FPLs: Lots 330 to 527
Numismatic Journals: Lots 528 to 591
Magazines: Lots 592 to 610
Maps: Lots 611 to 619
Shipwreck Memorabilia: Lot 620
Newspapers: Lot 621
Original Manuscripts: Lot 622
ALL BIDDERS! Please be aware of postage costs! I have endeavored to include at the end of each lot description the weight in pounds and ounces of the lot offered to aid in estimating postage costs.
Within continental United States shipment by USPS Media Mail:
Uninsured sample approximate rates as follows:
5lb - $10
10lb - $15
20lb - $20
50lb - $45
INTERNATIONAL - USPS Priority Parcel:
Sample approximate rates As Follows:
Up to 4lb - $65
4lb to 10lb - $85
10lb to 15lb - $100
15lb to 20lb - $120
20lb to 25lb - $140
Price may also be higher for oversized books. ***INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS*** please contact us for a quote before bidding if you have any questions.
Shipments are subject to your payment and our scheduling and it may take a week to be sent.
References Cited:
'American Numismatic Auctions' by Martin Gengerke, 11-2009 Edition
Cited as: Gengerke sale #[Page # or UL - unlisted] (example: )
'Fixed Price Lists & Prices Paid For Lists of United States Coin Dealers 1940-49' by Remy Bourne
'Fixed Price Lists & Prices Paid For Lists of United States Coin Dealers 1950-59' by Remy Bourne
'American Numismatic Periodicals 1860-1960 Vol II' by Remy Bourne
Cited as: Bourne P - Periodicals, L - Dealer Lists volume #[section-page number] (example: Bourne P2[1960-130])
'United States Numismatic Literature Volume I. Nineteenth Century Auction Catalogs' by John W. Adams
Cited as: Adams sale#: sale grade Adam's sale comments. (example: Adams 94: A- Oxford pound, 1826 5 sovereign pattern, AU 1806 25 cents, Breton 673, Excellent European)
'Numismatic Bibliography' by Elvira Eliza Clain-Stefanelli
Cited as: Clain-Stefanelli: #
References Used:
George Frederick Kolbe sale catalogs
Kolbe-Fanning Sale catalogs
David Sklow Sale catalogs
Charles Davis Sale catalogs
The Money Tree Sale catalogs
Frank and Laurese Katen Sale catalogs