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The Waterbury Auction Gallery catalog for April 28th presents a wide-ranging selection of 160 lots focused on rare and collectible books, documents, and ephemera. The catalog includes photography books with notable artistic contributions—Henri Cartier-Bresson’s The Europeans and The Decisive Moment—with covers designed by Miro and Matisse respectively. These are followed by early Americana, such as facsimile documents related to Major André and Benedict Arnold, 18th-century hymnals, and early U.S. educational and legal texts.
Numerous 19th-century literary works are featured, including volumes by James Whitcomb Riley, W.M. Thackeray, and Seba Smith, along with illustrated adventure narratives like Pioneer Life and Frontier Adventures and Life of Kit Carson. Religious texts and theological treatises, such as Ebenezer Chaplin’s A Treatise on the Sacraments (1802), are also prominent. Several items document early American institutions, including the 1826 Catalogue of the Officers and Cadets from the American Literary, Scientific, and Military Academy in Middletown, CT.
Children’s literature and educational works are well represented, including Victorian-era illustrated magazines and books like Good Things and My Twin Puppies, as well as language learning tools such as Corderius’ Latin dialogues printed by Isaiah Thomas in 1789. This is complemented by an array of books with notable bindings or illustrations, including vellum or publisher’s cloth bindings, with contributions by artists such as N.C. Wyeth and E.W. Kemble.
