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Rare Books & Manuscripts - Fine Press - Illustrated Books
Among the highlights:
Rare Books & Manuscripts - Fine Press - Illustrated Books
Among the highlights:
- Rare manuscript in grand format of Werner Rolewinck's world history, Fasciculus temporum, c.1471, one of 13 known examples. Estimate: $100,000/150,000.
- Robert McCloskey's Make
Way for Ducklings, winner of the 1942 Caldecott Medal, in rare
original dust jacket. Estimate: $10,000/15,000.
- Robert McCloskey's Make
Way for Ducklings, winner of the 1942 Caldecott Medal, in rare
original dust jacket. Estimate: $10,000/15,000.
- Two Arabic Folk Tales, translated by T.E. Lawrence, an early printing from the Corvinus Press of Viscount Carlow, one of 35 copies. Estimate: $4,000/6,000.
- First editions in English of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, 1611 & c.1615, the translation of George Chapman, in their combined issue. Estimate: $30,000/50,000.
- El Lissitzky & Hans Arp on The Isms of Art, 1925, a tribute to the avant-garde art movements of the post-war world. Estimate: $3,000/5,000.
- Two notebooks recording abstracts of lectures by naturalist Louis Agassiz, kept by a young woman at the school run by his wife. Estimate: $3,000/5,000.
- Important English edition of the works of Jacob Behmen, German theosophist and mystic, with engraved plates cabalistic and astrological in nature. Estimate: $3,000/5,000.
- Henry James' The Beast in the Jungle from the Allen Press, with the rare portfolio of artist's proofs by Blair Hughes-Stanton, part of a large collection of Allen Press printings offered in the sale. Estimate: $2,000/3,000.
- Giovanni Wincklemann's Monumenti Antichi Inediti, 2 volumes, 1767, with over 200 fabulous engravings of antiquities. Estimate: $2,000/3,000.
Each
lot illustrated in the online version of the catalogue.
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Please visit our website to view more than 350 lots of rare books, manuscripts, fine press books, illustrated and children's books, and more, ranging from a very rare 15th century manuscript world history to the modern phenomenon The Hunger Games, with important early printings of Homer, Pliny, Livy and other classical authors; fine printings from the Allen and other fine presses; limited editions by Arthur Rackham and other illustrative rarities; finely bound books and sets; and much, much more..
Bid directly from the site. Now available in the Live Auction Catalogues section
Please visit our website to view more than 350 lots of rare books, manuscripts, fine press books, illustrated and children's books, and more, ranging from a very rare 15th century manuscript world history to the modern phenomenon The Hunger Games, with important early printings of Homer, Pliny, Livy and other classical authors; fine printings from the Allen and other fine presses; limited editions by Arthur Rackham and other illustrative rarities; finely bound books and sets; and much, much more..
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Letter by Napoleon
Letter by Napoleon
A
letter written by Napoleon in English, sold at auction in Paris recently for
€325,000. The letter suggests the French Emperor struggled with the language of
the enemy, Britain.
The standard-sized sheet of paper is a homework exercise Napoleon sent to an English teacher for correction in 1816 and was sealed with the imperial eagle wax stamp. It is one of three such English-language letters by Napoleon in the world, according to the auction organisers, and was bought by the Museum of Letters and Manuscripts in Paris in a dramatic bidding war near the Chateau of Fontainebleau, originally belonging to Napoleon.
The selling price, five times that which was predicted, suggests the document's historic value, as rare proof that Napoleon, who famously dismissed England as a "nation of shopkeepers," learned to speak the language late in life.
The standard-sized sheet of paper is a homework exercise Napoleon sent to an English teacher for correction in 1816 and was sealed with the imperial eagle wax stamp. It is one of three such English-language letters by Napoleon in the world, according to the auction organisers, and was bought by the Museum of Letters and Manuscripts in Paris in a dramatic bidding war near the Chateau of Fontainebleau, originally belonging to Napoleon.
The selling price, five times that which was predicted, suggests the document's historic value, as rare proof that Napoleon, who famously dismissed England as a "nation of shopkeepers," learned to speak the language late in life.
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