Rare Book Monthly

Articles - August - 2011 Issue

A Book Auction in Maine August 16th

- by Bruce E. McKinney

A selection of some of the interesting books

A Small Portion of the Material

AMERICANA: 1777 Robertson; Best Ed. of Marshall's G. Washington (all maps and plates) and many Howes titles and others. Important BIBLES 1806 to DORE, DALI and others. BEST COLLECTION OF CIVIL WAR BOOKS EVER SOLD AT AUCTION IN MAINE (100+ lots). TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: 1776 ANSON; Fenning’s 1744 NEW...GEOGRAPHY; 1704 BUCKANIERS OF AMERICA; 1823 LONG'S NARRATIVE; 1776 HISTORICAL...USA by Botham. Great collection of FAIRY TALES including GAY'S FABLES (Blake), Dore, Lang, etc. ENGLISH & AMER. NEWSPAPERS 1707-1880 from many States, many Harper's Weeklys (Homers). Many folios on GARDENS and ARCHITECTURE (B.Asher, etc.), and INTERIORS. 1st Amer. ADVENTURES OF S. HOLMES. ILLUSTRATED BOOKS (Dore, Rackham, and others). ART BOOKS (some signed) and books with original etchings, color lithographs (birds, fish, etc.). RARE A. LINCOLN books and many Presidential related books, a medal, portraits, signatures, etc. 32 crisp  BIG LITTLE BOOKS. Complete YELLOW BOOK; VERVEs and others. Paper lots (OHIO, NAUTICAL, MASSIVE ODD FELLOWS ARCHIVE-ECHO LODGE, BERWICK, ME.- 1870S-EARLY 20TH.) and others. Books on GOLF; TENNIS; BASEBALL; HORSES; DOGS; HUNTING; FISHING; CHESS; BIRDS; SCIENCE; PHILOLOGY; RELIGION(some early); NAUTICA and EXPLORATION. Important ANTIQUE REFERENCE BOOKS from a New England Museum. WESTERN AMERICANA.  Clean lots of 19th and 20th century Travel Books from many countries.  Good selection of LAW BOOKS (17th, 18th, and 19th centuries) LAWS...MASS (1799) which includes the D.O.I., TREATY OF PEACE, the U.S. and MASS CONSTITUTIONS; legal works by J. Story and others.  Books on ECONOMICS (Ist Ed. J.Necker, A.Smith etc); POLITICAL ECONOMY; PHILOSOPHY, etc. MANY HUNDREDS OF LEATHER-BOUND BOOKS and DECORATIVE CLOTH BINDINGS- sold in sets, singles and large lots. COOK BOOKS (19th and 20th Cent.). Great lot of 62 1920/30s FORD DEALER MAGS. 1930s FORTUNE MAGAZINES. Small Press, Fine Press and LECs. COLOPHON MAGS;  MAINE & NEW ENGLAND titles and sets.

Rare Book Monthly

  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Isaac Newton on chemistry and matter, and alchemy, Autograph Manuscript, "A Key to Snyders," 3 pp, after 1674. $100,000 - $150,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Exceptionally rare first printing of Plato's Timaeus. Florence, 1484. $50,000 - $80,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: On the Philosophy of Self-Interest: Adam Smith's copy of Helvetius's De l'homme, Paris, 1773. $40,000 - $60,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: "Magical Calendar of Tycho Brahe" - very rare hermetic broadside. Engraved by Merian for De Bry. c.1618. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Author's presentation issue of Einstein's proof of Relativity, "Erklärung der Perihelbewegung des Merkur aus der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie." 1915. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: First Latin edition of Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed. Paris, 1520. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: De Broglie manuscript on the nature of matter in quantum physics, 3 pp, 1954. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Tesla autograph letter signed on electricty and electromagnetic theory. 1894. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Heinrich Hertz scientific manuscript on his mentor Hermann Von Helmholtz, 1891. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: The greatest illustrated work in Alchemy: Micheal Maier's Atalanta Fugiens. Oppenheim, 1618. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Illustrated Alchemical manuscript, a Mysterium Magnum of the Rosicurcians, 18th-century. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Rare Largest Paper Presentation Copy of Newton's Principia, London, 1726. The third and most influential edition. $60,000 - $90,000
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.

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