A CATALOGUE OF THE CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN COLLECTION OF GREEK COINS. Part One: Italy, Sicily, Carthage; Part Two: Greece to East.

First edition. Complete in four volumes. Two text volumes and two plates volumes. Publisher's original oatmeal course cloth with titles in gilt to the spines. Frontispiece to each of the text volumes, a few photographic illustrations in the text volume of part two. Plate volume of part one with a cover sheet and 42 pages of photographic plates (numbered I-XLII); Plate volume of part two with a cover sheet and 56 pages of photographic plates (numbered XLIII-XCVIIII). In very good or better condition, the bindings and plate portfolios are in excellent condition, clean and fresh with sound hinges. The contents, very lightly spotted to the title page in the text volumes, and cover sheet in the plate volumes, are otherwise clean throughout.

A superb catalogue of an exceptional collection, now housed in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. "A magnificent achievement and a record of exceptional coins beyond compare. Mr Gulbenkian collected only coins in perfect mint condition with a concentration on their artistic merit and (as one of the richest men in the world at that time) was able to purchase many of the best pieces from the auctions of the 1930's and 40's as well as significant private purchases from the Vlasto and Jameson collections" - Dennis J. Kroh.