Spanning nearly three centuries of print culture, this sale of 294 lots draws together an admirably diverse range of Americana, ephemera, and printed curiosities that will reward collectors across a wide spectrum of interests. Judaica is well represented, from the Vienna-printed Mikraot Gedolot Chumash and Saul Raskin's etched Pirke Aboth to mid-century publications from The Jewish Publication Society, while New England local history surfaces throughout in Maine fisheries pamphlets, Portland Observatory keepsakes, a Clipper Ship master's biography, and an 1888 pictorial tour of Washington, D.C. with original publisher's cloth. Among the more distinctive offerings are Howard Pyle's 1908 illustrated Ruby of Kishmoor, the Matisse Jazz art book, an Ansel Adams-illustrated 1945 issue of the literary journal Twice a Year, a self-published 1991 artist's book from the Haystack School in Maine, and a handsome 1923 Tiranti quarto on the architectural designs of Abraham Swan. Genealogists will find Tuttle, Miller, and St. John family histories alongside New Jersey Jewish community records, while ephemera enthusiasts can pursue a 1961 Hartford Times heralding Yuri Gagarin's flight, 1925 Brunswick record catalogs, Rawleigh's 1938 almanac, vintage Esso road maps, and a curious rustic wooden plaque from the Portland Observatory bearing a Longfellow quotation — the whole forming a sale that reflects the pleasingly unpredictable accumulation of a well-read, widely traveled collecting life.
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