Sale: CNG 73, Lot: 2425. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 13 September 2006.  Sold For $1050. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Svoronos, J.N. Numismatique de la Crète ancienne. (Macon, 1890.) ix, 358 pages, with 35 photographic plates. Text in French. Purple quarter leather covers with marbled boards, gilt spine titles and raised bands, original paper covers bound in. Fine condition, upper corners of the plates have been creased, some small tears. The rare original edition, much superior to the reprint.