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Our November 12 auction presents 240 lots spanning nearly five centuries of printed culture, from leather-bound eighteenth-century classics and Victorian periodicals to mid-century scientific monographs and contemporary graphic novels. Psychology and medical literature feature with particular depth, ranging from Samuel Beck's Rorschach volumes and Anna Freud's writings to scarce French neurological texts and inscribed neurosurgery books bearing the bookplate of Dr. William H. Sweet, while the humanities are represented by six French-language Samuel Beckett paperbacks from Les Éditions de Minuit, a 1901 Kipling Kim in illustrated boards, and a 1965 City Lights Pocket Poets Picasso. Collectors of Americana will find the 1886 second volume of Grant's Personal Memoirs complete with its Shenandoah Valley campaign map, Connecticut Civil War service records, and a rare 1912 Bowdoin College Ivy Day program with original advertisements, alongside G. H. Hollister's 1855 History of Connecticut in its original cloth. Graphic arts, bibliography, and the history of the book are well served by Denis Woodfield's Surreptitious Printing in England 1550–1640, Fraenkel's Decorative Music Title Pages for Dover, and a 1937 French printing-arts magazine, Les Arts et Techniques Graphiques, making this a sale of genuine range and scholarly substance.

Our November 16 auction presents 240 lots spanning nearly three centuries of book and paper collecting, drawing together antique literature, engineering history, cartography, military ephemera, and the fine arts in a single wide-ranging sale. Among the most distinguished offerings are the five-volume Collected Papers of Sigmund Freud in dust jackets from Hogarth Press, a 1677 Paris edition of Claudiani Opera in worn original leather, a 1744 illustrated Fables for the Female Sex, and a remarkably early 1730 Paris edition of Martial's Epigrams with marbled endpapers and a dated bookplate. Illustrated works feature prominently throughout, from Apollinaire's Les Mamelles de Tiresias with Picasso plates in the 1946 Editions du Belier edition, to Frederic Remington's Done in the Open and a 1933 study of Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints, while provenance adds interest to a signed Modern Library Tortilla Flat, an Osbert Sitwell five-volume autobiography set in illustrated dust jackets, and a Madeleine L'Engle presentation copy bearing her signature. Railroad history enthusiasts will find a substantial run of North of England Mining Engineers Transactions with folding maps and diagrams, alongside Missouri Pacific Equipment Trust ledgers and Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul mortgage volumes, and collectors of maps and ephemera are well served by hand-coloured nineteenth-century atlas plates, a World War II US First Army operations map, and a group of early New York City bridge traffic charts.