Our November 27 auction brings together 240 lots spanning several centuries of print culture, with particular strength in nineteenth-century American periodicals, Yale college history, and institutional records — among them multiple bound volumes of the German Lutheran paper Der Lutheraner printed in St. Louis through the 1840s to 1860s, a remarkable run of Yale Triennials and Yale Record volumes in half-leather bindings, and the inaugural issue of the Yale News from January 28, 1878. Fine and decorative bindings appear throughout, from a 1684 Amsterdam edition of Machiavelli's Le Prince in gilt-spined leather with an engraved portrait to a seventeenth-century French theological work in contemporary calf, while collectors of travel and geography will find an early eighteenth-century Ogilby roads guide in panelled calf, a souvenir booklet of photographic views of the Panama Canal, and an Amsterdam Olympics rowing programme from 1928. Literary highlights include a first American edition of Tolkien's The Silmarillion in dust jacket, an inscribed first edition of Helmericks's We Live in the Arctic, and a signed copy of Elworthy's The Evil Eye with its folding plate; the sale also takes in manuscript material ranging from Yale course notebooks and a hand-illustrated tree study on birch-bark boards to a typescript of Paul Schmidt's English translation of Genet's The Screens, making this a genuinely varied offering for collectors of books, ephemera, and associated curiosities.
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