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.
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