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Our November 5 sale brings together 280 lots spanning an admirably broad range of subjects, with particular depth in neurology and the history of medicine — highlights include Emil Seletz's illustrated Surgery of Peripheral Nerves, R. Lindsay Rea's Neuro-Ophthalmology, and Shinji Takahashi's Rotation Radiography, inscribed by the author — alongside strong representation in the history of science, physics, and mathematics, where Thomas Muir's four-volume Theory of Determinants and a substantial gathering of spectroscopy and nuclear data publications will reward specialist collectors. The Alfred Adler material, led by a 1927 Leipzig first edition of Menschenkenntnis, anchors a thread of psychology and psychoanalysis that runs through the sale, complementing offerings in literature and the arts ranging from the Cornell Yeats and Moore manuscript materials and advance proof copies of Pablo Neruda's Song of Protest to Rex Whistler's Königsmark Drawings in its original slipcase and a facsimile of Shakespeare's First Folio in publisher's quarter morocco. Ephemera and Americana collectors will find much to consider as well, from a 1938 New York World's Fair bulletin with its folding bird's-eye map to Central Intelligence Agency cartographic publications and a richly illustrated 1876 Asher & Adams Pictorial Album of American Industry. Across all categories, the sale is characterised by a pleasing mixture of scholarly substance and visual appeal, with signed and inscribed copies, scarce imprints, and fine bindings distributed throughout.

Our November 9 auction brings together 200 lots spanning an exceptionally broad sweep of American and British material, with a particularly strong concentration of Rhode Island local history — city directories, church records, genealogies, colonial town documents, regimental histories, and architectural studies that together form a remarkable research archive for the region. Highlights in this area include an 1844 Providence imprint of Might and Right, the anonymous account of the Dorr Rebellion; an 1835 memoir with Rhode Island imprint; early Pawtucket and Newport histories with heliotype and lithograph plates; and a fine copy of the 1897 Men of Progress with biographical portraits of the state’s leading figures. Beyond Rhode Island, the auction ranges confidently into American history and technology, with United States Census volumes from 1860–1864 in period leather bindings, a vivid 1855 railroad travel narrative illustrated in publisher’s cloth, a scarce 1816 American edition of Valuable Secrets in Arts, Trades, &c., and an Ernie Pyle scrapbook compiled from wartime newspaper clippings at the moment of his death on Ie Shima. Collectors of illustrated books and decorative bindings will find much to admire as well, from Doré-illustrated travel writing and a leporello viewbook of the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial to a New York legislative manual bound in gilt-tooled red morocco presentation binding, a miniature olive wood New Testament, and a lively run of trade and technical manuals covering subjects from fish-breeding and blow-pipe mineralogy to paper-hanging, dynamo-building, and early motoring.