AE Monthly: Interesting eCatalogues in Section III
- by Bruce E. McKinney
Twenty-five Autographs, Drawings, Manuscripts, Printed Books and Views from Antiquariaat Forum
This month Section III of AE Monthly includes 16 presentations from dealers in North and South America, Europe and Australia. These catalogues neatly fit between the world that was, the printed catalogue, and the world that will be – fully interactive illustrated color presentations immediately accessible anywhere in the world.
Among the catalogues this month are six recent releases from the William Reese Company
Catalogue 293: Literary Miscellany: The Secular and the Sacred
Bulletin 26: American Views
Catalogue Two Hundred and Ninety Two: 96 American Manuscripts
Catalogue Two Hundred and Ninety-One: The United States Navy
Bulletin 25: Broadsides
Catalogue Two Hundred Ninety: The American Revolution 1765 – 1783
From ten other dealers –
Cameran TreleavenAquila Books: Charles Van Sandwyck Books and other Things
Michael BuehlerRecent Acquisitions: Fourteen Appealing Possibilities
Maria HoogmaFragmenta Selecta Catalogues 111: Rare and Scholarly Books on Epigraphy, Papyrology & Palaeography
Gustavo Breitfeld South America: A Selection of scarce imprints mostly from small provincial presses
Claudia Schulson New Arrivals: Forty Possibilities
Darren Keyes London International Antiquarian Book Fair Exhibition List: Short title catalogue of books on exhibit
The world every day becomes an increasingly electronic place. We talk by video-phone for free with people around the world. We pay our household bills increasingly without using a postage stamp. We run our businesses and plan our days using programs that only a few years ago did not exist. So its not surprising we are also issuing and receiving electronic catalogues. The world changes and these dealers are changing with it. These presentations are all worth a thorough reading.
Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
Sotheby's Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 1: Bob Dylan, his high school classmate's yearbook with his senior portrait, signed and inscribed to her, 1959. $10,000 to $20,000.
Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 4: Various entertainers, Group of 30 items, signed or inscribed, various dates. $1,500 to $2,500.
Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 27: John Adams, Autograph Letter Signed to Benjamin Rush introducing Archibald Redford, Paris, 1783. $35,000 to $50,000.
Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 36: Robert Gould Shaw, Autograph Letter Signed to his father from Camp Andrew, Boston, 1861. $10,000 to $15,000.
Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 53: Martin Luther King Jr., Time magazine cover, signed and inscribed "Best Wishes," 1957. $5,000 to $7,500.
Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 127: Paul Gauguin, Autograph Letter regarding payment for paintings, with woodcut letterhead, 1900. $6,000 to $9,000.
Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 169: Suck: First European Sex Paper, complete group of eight issues, 1969-1974. $800 to $1,200.
Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 173: Black Panthers, The Racist Dog Policemen Must Withdraw Immediately From Our Communities, poster, 1969. $2,000 to $3,000.
Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 187: Marc Attali & Jacques Delfau, Les Erotiques du Regard, first edition, Paris, 1968. $300 to $500.
Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 213: Andy Warhol, Warhol's Index Book, first printing, New York, 1967. $800 to $1,200.
Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 215: Cookie Mueller, Archive of 17 items, including 4 items inscribed and signed. $3,000 to $4,000.
Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 249: Jamie Reid, The Ten Lessons / The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle; Sex Pistols, chromogenic print with collage, signed, circa 1980. $20,000 to $30,000.
