This Thursday’s sale of 280 lots ranges impressively across neurology and the history of science, Virginia Woolf and Alfred Adler, and brings together a genuinely diverse gathering of rare books, manuscripts, and ephemera that rewards collectors with varied tastes. Medical and scientific holdings are particularly strong, from R. Lindsay Rea’s 1941 Neuro-Ophthalmology and Emil Seletz’s Surgery of Peripheral Nerves to specialist volumes on spectroscopy, radiobiology, and nuclear data, while the history of science thread runs through Thomas Muir’s four-volume Theory of Determinants and Brian Greene’s The Fabric of the Cosmos. Americana collectors will find Morris Birkbeck’s 1818 Notes on a Journey in America in half calf, Clarence B. Moore’s presentation copies on Gulf Coast and Ouachita Valley archaeology, and Henry Keppel’s Expedition to Borneo with its folding map, alongside fine bindings including a full morocco William Cullen Bryant and a limp morocco Episcopal Hymnal. Art and design are well represented by Michel Tapie’s folio on Sofu Teshigahara, the Picasso lithographs paired with Balzac’s Hidden Masterpiece, Roland Penrose on Miró, and multiple advertising art annuals, while literary ephemera — from uncorrected proofs of Pablo Neruda to Hudson Review issues and mid-century little magazines — round out a sale that consistently rewards the specialist and the generalist alike.
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