?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(NUMISMATICS.) Strobridge, William H. Catalogue of Prof. J.M. Macallister's Collection of Coins and Medals. 2 albumen photographs mounted on stiff board. [4], 96 pages, with original purple interleaving tissue between most text leaves. 8vo, original printed wrappers, minor wear and soiling; contents quite clean; uncut; small dealer sticker on inside rear wrapper, ex-libris plate of coin collector Harry W. Bass Jr. on inside front wrapper. New York, September 1873
A catalogue for the sale of a renowned coin collection by the Messrs. Leavitt, auctioneers. J.M. Macallister (1837-1899) was a popular magician in addition to his collecting activities. Many copies were issued with just one photographic plate facing page 1. Only 5 copies were produced thus in a deluxe edition with 2 plates and interleaving. Attinelli, Bibliography of American Numismatic Auction Catalogues, page 67. 2 copies in OCLC, with 2 others at the American Numismatic Society (without the interleaving).
