Our November 23 auction presents 200 lots drawn from an unusually wide arc of collecting interests, ranging from early printed maps and fine bindings to ephemera, sheet music, and working-library technical sets. Among the bibliographic highlights are Frederick Catherwood's hand-colored lithographic portfolio of Central American monuments, a Rockwell Kent–illustrated Shakespeare printed at the Printing House of Leo Hart, a complete eleven-volume Fabre Souvenirs Entomologiques in a fine Delagrave binding, and Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned in its first-edition publisher's cloth. The maps are particularly strong, with Johnson and Ward atlas sheets, a Robert de Vaugondy 1749 chart of the Americas, and a rare 1854 Uncle John's panorama of European nations with hand-colored wood engravings of national costume. Naval fiction collectors will find multiple first and early editions of Captain Marryat, while those drawn to extra-illustration, provenance, and decorative bindings should note the Wanamaker-bookplated John Bunyan biography in full navy morocco by Henry Young & Sons, the Denis Gouey full-morocco Bakst with multi-colored leather inlays, and the Limited Editions Club bibliography in its binder's copy of Nigerian Oasis goatskin. Scientific and technical literature, Rhode Island local history, anatomical flap-plate volumes, and an illustrated Griendel Micrographia Nova of 1687 round out an auction that rewards browsers across virtually every collecting discipline.
Follow the link to the Auction
Use this form to inquire about this Auction