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Dominic Winter Auctioneers
Auctions on June 19
and June 20Dominic Winter, June 19: Lot 70 - Warner (Robert). The Orchid Album, 11 volumes, 1882-1897. £5,000 to £8,000Dominic Winter, June 19: Lot 151 - United States. Melish (John), Map of the United States with..., British & Spanish Possessions, 1816. £40,000 to £60,000Dominic Winter, June 19: Lot 159 - World. Speed (John), A New and Accurat Map of the World, 1676. £4,000 to £6,000.Dominic Winter Auctioneers
Auctions on June 19
and June 20Dominic Winter, June 20: Lot 503 - American Civil War playing cards. Union Cards, New York: American Card Co., 1862. £500 to £800Dominic Winter, June 20: Lot 573 - Shepard (Ernest Howard), 'The Hour is Come’, original watercolour, [1959]. £10,000 to £15,000Dominic Winter, June 20: Lot 922 - Wilde (Oscar). An Ideal Husband, large paper limited issue, 1899. £4,000 to £6,000Dominic Winter Auctioneers
Auctions on June 19
and June 20Dominic Winter, June 20: Lot 744 - Disney (Walt). “Sketch Book” [of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs], 1938. £700 to £1,000Dominic Winter, June 20: Lot 771 - Auden (Wystan Hugh). Portrait of the head of W. H. Auden, 1970. £1,000 to £1,500Dominic Winter, June 20: Lot 822 - Fleming (Ian). Goldfinger, 1st edition, signed by the author, 1959. £6,000 to £8,000Dominic Winter Auctioneers
Auctions on June 19
and June 20Dominic Winter, June 20: Lot 895 - Rowling (J. K.). A complete inscribed set of Harry Potter books plus ephemera. £8,000 to £12,0000Dominic Winter, June 20: Lot 883 - Orwell (George). Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1st edition, London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. £3,000 to £5,000Dominic Winter, June 20: Lot 700 - Ashendene Press. T. Lucreti Cari De Rerium Natura Libri Sex, Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1913. £4,000 to £6,000 -
Doyle, June 20: CLAUDE MCKA. Home to Harlem. New York: Harpers, 1928. First edition. $700 to $1,000.Doyle, June 20: Haydn's VI Original Canzonettas, signed by the composer. $4,000 to $6,000.Doyle, June 20: A rare EP sleeve inscribed by John Lennon. $800 to $1,200.Doyle, June 20: An extremely rare 1961 concert set list and autograph letter from The King. $7,000 to $10,000.Doyle, June 20: Bryan Batt's copy of the Mad Men Yearbook, 2008-2014. $600 to $800.Doyle, June 20: An original Al Hirschfeld depicting comedian Fred Allen. $1,000 to $1,500.Doyle, June 20: A signed note from George Gershwin with reference to Porgy and Bess. $1,000 to $1,500.Doyle, June 20: An original Harold Arlen manuscript musical quotation from "Over the Rainbow.” $1,000 to $1,500.Doyle, June 20: A fine original Edith Head sketch for Grace Kelly's wedding trousseau. $3,000 to $5,000.Doyle, June 20: The poster for New Faces with inscriptions and the signature of Eartha Kitt. $200 to $300.Doyle, June 20: The classic "Jazz" Bowl by Viktor Schreckengost for Cowan Pottery. $15,000 to $25,000.Doyle, June 20: Tony Award Medallion won for "Kismet." $3,000 to $5,000.
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Heritage Auctions, June 27
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925Heritage Auctions, June 27
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus
London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, 1818Heritage Auctions, June 27
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1937Heritage Auctions, June 27
Jane Austen
Emma: A Novel. In Three Volumes. By the Author of "Pride and Prejudice," &c. &c.
London: Printed for John Murray, 1816Heritage Auctions, June 27
Robert Louis Stevenson
An Inland Voyage
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1878Heritage Auctions, June 27
Ernest Hemingway
Three Stories & Ten Poems
Paris: Contact Publishing Co., 1923Heritage Auctions, June 27
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark
Philadelphia, 1814Heritage Auctions, June 27
Emily Dickinson
Autograph letter signed ("Emily and Vinnie"), to Mary Adelaide Hills
Amherst, MA, Late April, 1880Heritage Auctions, June 27
John Keats
Autograph letter signed ("John Keats"), to Mrs. Jeffrey
Honiton 4 or 5 May 1818Heritage Auctions, June 27
Samuel Johnson
A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are deduced from their Originals…
London, 1765Heritage Auctions, June 27
H. P. Lovecraft
Small archive of nine lengthy autograph letters signed variously over a period of six years to J. Vernon Shea.
Various places, 1931-1937Heritage Auctions, June 27
Izaak Walton
The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation…
London: T. homas Maxey for Rich. ard Marriot, 1653 -
Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: [Keats, John] Spenser, Edmund: The Works of that Famous English Poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser. $50,000 - $80,000.Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: (Walton, Izaak): The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing. $30,000 - $50,000.Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: Thomas, Gabriel: An Historical and Geographical Account of the Province and Country of Pensilvania; and of West-New-Jersey in America. $25,000 - $35,000.Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: [Carroll, Lewis]: The Game of Alice in Wonderland. $2,000 - $3,000.Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: Athias, Joseph, et al.: Biblia Hebraica. $7,000 - $10,000.Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: [Warhol, Andy, and Jens Quistgaard] Dansk Designs Salesman's Presentation Catalogue. $2,500 - $3,500.
Rare Book Monthly
Articles - October - 2008 Issue
Connecting Word and Image
Here is some further detail on the living room east wall.
[1] Glens Falls. A painting by Henry A. Ferguson painted around 1865;
[2] A photograph of the Reuben Clark, that ran aground at Marlborough in 1882;
[3] Two small broadsides. One captures that fleeting moment when the railroad reaches only as far as Poughkeepsie and the onward leg is yet by steamboat [1851]. The other small broadside is an 1856 flyer for the Independent Day Boat. The railroad is now cutting into the trade and this broadside includes this statement:
"Passengers by taking this boat, enjoy the delightful scenery that flanks the Hudson, and escape the annoyance, confusion and dust incident to Railroad traveling."
[4] Three lithographs from the presses of Charles Magnus of New York. All are thought to date from the mid 1850's. Two are cities plans for Albany and Buffalo, the third is a city view of Troy as the town looked ten years after the Swallow [see 5] set out on its final voyage;
[5] A broadside of the Loss of the Swallow in 1845.
[6] A broadside advertisement for a sailing of the Swallow on Wednesday May 25th, 1844. This ship exploded while making the same trip on April 7th, 1845, just 318 days later.
[7] Map of Albany and Schenectady [1840] by Stone & Clark;
[8] "The Roundhouse," an engraving by Roland Mousseau of Rondout [1934];
[9] An unidentified painting. It seems to be a Hudson River scene. The colors don't seem quite right but as an after thought, set above and out of the way, it seems to fit well enough.
[10] The Catskill Mountain House in the far distance, a painting by Paul Weber, 1855;
[11] A Map of Dutchess and Putnam Counties by David Burr, 1829;
[12] A painting by Anna Young of Marlborough. She is a distant relative of F. B. Morse who lived on the east side of the Hudson about 7 miles north. The scene seems to be the Hudson, from the Marlborough side looking east. It feels right. In the 1950's my father bought Desotos from Young's Motors and on the 4th of July, we and hundreds of other patriotics, assembled on their farm to relive the "rockets' red glare."
[13-14] Off to the right are two Currier & Ives images of ships that plied the Hudson in its golden era;
All these many years later, as I begin to do yoga in the living room at 6:00 am, I turn to face this Hudson wall, look deeply in the scene of the Catskill Mountain House on which the sun is always shining late into the day. I glance right and left, and am once again in the embrace of history, slipping back in time, glad to be alive, and privileged to have learned to appreciate and uncover such extraordinary material. What a love of books has began only time will tell what the outcome of all this may be.
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