Annonce de publication : Stefan Krmnicek, Hadrien Rambach (Eds), The Numismatic World in the Long Nineteenth Century

Sortie prévue le 10 mars 2023

Deux volumes

Volume 1 : Academia and Trade, The Numismatic World in the Long Nineteenth Century, ISBN 9780367651800, 222 pages  & 27 illustrations

Volume 2 : Institutions and Individuals, The Numismatic World in the Long Nineteenth Century, ISBN 9780367651831, 226 pages  & 25 illustrations

Description du volume 1

This first part of a 2-volume collection comprises a collection of essays in English by leading scholars on the 19th-century Academia and Trade presenting the latest developments in international scholarship on the numismatic world in the long 19th century.

In the 19th century, developments in the study and collection of coins set the cornerstone for modern numismatics. This volume comprises a collection of essays in English by international leading scholars that highlight significant figures of the 19th-century research and the state of the numismatic trade in their time. Centering around collectors and scholars of ancient, medieval, and modern numismatics, and on non-Western coinage and medals against the backdrop of the political, cultural, economic, and social changes of the era, this book presents the latest scholarship on numismatics’ contribution to the cultural history of the 19th century.

This volume is essential for students and scholars alike interested in 19th -century history and the history of coins.

 

Description du volume 2

This second part of the 2 volume collection comprises a collection of essays in English by leading scholars on 19th century institutions and individuals presenting the latest developments in international scholarship on the numismatic world in the long 19th century.

In the 19th century, developments in the study and collection of coins set the cornerstone for modern numismatics. This volume comprises a collection of essays in English by international leading scholars that highlight significant figures of 19th century research and the state of the numismatic trade in their time. Centering around collectors and scholars of ancient, medieval, modern, as well as on non-Western coinage and medals against the backdrop of the political, cultural, economic, and social changes of the era, this book presents the latest scholarship on numismatics’ contribution to the cultural history of the 19th century.

This volume is essential for students and scholars alike interested in 19th century history and the history of coins.

Contenu (vol. 1)

1. Academia and Trade—The numismatic world in the long 19th century: An introduction.

2 Parva Burghesia: Two unpublished numismatic manuscripts by Bartolomeo Borghesi.

3. Numismatics and collections in Southern Italy: Some case studies.

4. Churchill Babington (1821–1889) and the Cambridge coin collection.

5. Eugène Hucher (1814–1889), ‘hoards historian’.

6. The Beginnings of collecting and research into Byzantine coinage in 19th-century Italy.

7. The small world of Byzantine coins at Parisian auction: Agents, collectors and value.

8. Numismatics in Bulgaria during the 19th century.

9. Collecting, learning and connecting: A case from 19th century Sweden.

10. The Delhaes-collection: Relation between Vienna and Budapest.

11. Dattàri and Egyptian numismatics.

12. Reconstructing the provenance of the Chinese coin collection at KBR. A story of 19th century collectors and gift giving.

13. Russian medallic art of the 19th century: Back to the national roots.

14. Vercingetorix and national identity in 19th-century France.

15. G. N. Olcott and the didactic importance of ancient coin collections. 16. Evolution and revolution: Four sculptors and the 19th amendment.

Contenu (vol. 2)

1. Institutions and individuals—the numismatic world in the long 19th century: An introduction.

2. The coin collector Baron von Schellersheim (1752–1836).

3. Collectors and their coins—the sale of coins and medals at public auctions: The role that the Messrs. Christie played in the numismatic world in the early part of the ‘long 19th century’ (1766–1831).

4. Giacomo Verità, collector of coins and gems.

5. Domenico Promis (1804–1874), the Turin Royal Coin Cabinet and the birth of archaeological numismatics in Piedmont.

6. General Charles Richard Fox (1796–1873), coin collector.

7. From private collection to public museum—Nicola Bottacin (1805–1875), his numismatic collection and the birth of the Museo Bottacin of Padua (1865).

8. Western collectors of East Asian coins in the 19th century.

9. Chen Jieqi (1813–1884), a coin collector in 19th-century China.

10. A Collector at the periphery of the Austro-Hungarian Empire: Ormós Zsigmond (1813–1894).

11. Jan Pieter Six, a numismatist revisited.

12. Franciszek Piekosiński (1844–1906), his collection of ancient coins, the National Museum and 19th-century Krakow.

13. Greek and Swiss coins: Friedrich Imhoof-Blumer’s networks in two scientific communities.

14. The Spöttl collection in the Vienna Museum.

15. August Numismatist—Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia (1863—1919): Fate and legacy.

16. Collector and dealer at the end of the long 19th century: Calouste Gulbenkian and Jacob Hirsch.