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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.

Our November 19 auction presents 240 lots spanning several centuries of book and ephemera collecting, from a finely bound 1832 two-volumes-in-one edition of Medwin’s Conversations of Lord Byron to M. F. K. Fisher’s celebrated translation of Brillat-Savarin’s Physiology of Taste, with Sylvain Sauvage’s annotations and illustrations. Gastronomy, art history, military history, travel, and American sport are all well represented, with highlights including André Malraux’s The Voices of Silence in its original slipcase, the 1935 Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft, Laurence Stallings’s 1933 photographic survey of the First World War, and a two-volume 1886 Harvard edition of Shakespeare annotated and edited by Henry N. Hudson. Collectors of Americana will find the 1829 Constitution of the Protestant Episcopal Clerical Association of New-York, an 1845 leather-bound Greenleaf arithmetic, the 1965 Johnson–Humphrey inaugural program, and a remarkable run of travel ephemera covering Egypt, Italy, Japan, Canada, and beyond. Fine bindings appear throughout — quarter leather over marbled boards on a Dante Divina Commedia, half leather on Peterson’s American Wars with its engraved Washington portrait — while signed and inscribed copies, scarce institutional histories, and an eclectic spread of science fiction, juvenile fiction, and philatelic material round out a sale with genuine breadth and character.