Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 4639. Estimate $50.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $30. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Rice, David Talbot, ed. The Dawn of European Civilization. (London, 1965). A huge folio volume, 360 pages, with numerous photographs in b&w and color, drawings and maps describing the rise of the West during the period know as the Dark Ages. Includes a chapter on the reign of Charlemagne by Philip Grierson, as well as other information on coins of the period. Gray cloth covers with pictorial dust jacket. Fine condition, pages a bit browned, dust jacket torn. ($50)