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.
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