November 5 Neurology, History of Medicine, Alfred Adler & Shakespeare: Rare Books, Signed Firsts & Ephemera

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.

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    October 29, Updike, Garcia Marquez, Transition & Cuala Press: Signed Firsts, Rare Books & Ephemera

    Our October 29th auction presents 200 lots spanning several centuries of printed culture, manuscript material, and paper ephemera, with particular depth in modern American and European literature, the history of printing and typography, and the graphic arts. Among the highlights are three signed John Updike first editions in dust jackets, signed copies from Garcia Marquez and Joyce Carol Oates, a Cuala Press Rossi with its characteristic blue paper boards, and a remarkable 1935 Transition pamphlet bearing contributions from Braque, Matisse, and Tristan Tzara in response to Gertrude Stein. Collectors of illustrated and finely produced books will find the Skira Raynal volume on Fauvism and Expressionism with its tipped-in colour plates, the Ginzkey limited edition in decorated calf with mounted lithographs from Karl Scheibe’s workshop, and British Museum portfolios of illuminated manuscript reproductions alongside Dillmann’s scarce 1865 Ethiopic-Latin lexicon. The auction also rewards those drawn to ephemera and Americana: WWII ration books from Boston, an engraved Franklin rebus broadside, a rare woodcut-illustrated 1829 slavery narrative, Civil War election ballots, 1939 World’s Fair printed matter, and promotional booklets for the Hotel Astor and Hotel Knickerbocker that document early twentieth-century New York in vivid halftone and colour lithography. Latvian displaced persons’ children’s books from an Augsburg camp, Latvian Baptist publications, genealogical volumes on Macau and Portuguese India, and science fiction fanzines from Columbia University extend the reach of the sale into genuinely uncommon collecting territory.

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