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Our November 2nd auction brings together 240 lots spanning an admirably wide range of subjects, from Virginia Woolf's first American edition of A Room of One's Own and a 1934 Esquire featuring Hemingway and Dos Passos to an extensive run of neurology and neuroanatomy monographs—including Beck's scarce two-volume study of the chimpanzee brain, Bechterew's Objektive Psychologie, and inscribed copies touching on neurosurgery and reflexology—that will reward specialist collectors and medical historians alike. New York and Connecticut history are well represented, with O'Callaghan's four-volume Documentary History of the State of New-York complete across separate lots with folding maps and plates, Democratic primary ledgers from Waterbury, and an irresistible 1906 folio of Men of Hartford in Cartoon bound in gilt-lettered suede. Among the more unusual items are a 1927 broadside invitation printed on metallic silver paper for a Night in a Persian Garden at the Yale Theater, a shipboard issue of L'Atlantique from aboard the S.S. Normandie dated February 1938, Deems Taylor's opera score inscribed to his wife, and John Henry Nash's marbled-board prospectus for a fine press Dante. Fine bindings, presentation copies, scarce offprints, Latvian diaspora publications, Art Nouveau illustrated books, and ephemera from steamship travel to vinegar valentines round out a sale that rewards both the focused specialist and the broadly curious collector.

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.