<center>Doyle: Angling Books from the Collection of Arnold "Jake” Johnson Online Only Auction ending Dec. 18

Doyle, Arnold “Jake” Johnson Online-Only Auction, ending Dec 18: WETZEL, CHARLES M. American Fishing Books. $400 to $600

Doyle, Arnold “Jake” Johnson Online-Only Auction, ending Dec 18: BISSELL, ALFRED E., In Pursuit of Salar. $400 to $600

Doyle, Arnold “Jake” Johnson Online-Only Auction, ending Dec 18: The Settler and Sportsman in Anticosti. $400 to $600

<center>Doyle: Angling Books from the Collection of Arnold "Jake” Johnson Online Only Auction ending Dec. 18

Doyle, Arnold “Jake” Johnson Online-Only Auction, ending Dec 18: CARLETON, HENRY GUY, Advice to Young Anglers. $300 to $500

Doyle, Arnold “Jake” Johnson Online-Only Auction, ending Dec 18: ROBINSON, ROLAND EVANS, Forest and Stream Fables. By Awahsoose the Bear. $300 to $500

Doyle, Arnold “Jake” Johnson Online-Only Auction, ending Dec 18: SAWADA, KEN, The Art of the Classic Salmon Fly. $300 to $500

<center>Doyle: Angling Books from the Collection of Arnold "Jake” Johnson Online Only Auction ending Dec. 18

Doyle, Arnold “Jake” Johnson Online-Only Auction, ending Dec 18: SOUTHARD, CHARLES ZIBEON, The Evolution of Trout and Trout Fishing in America. $400 to $600

Doyle, Arnold “Jake” Johnson Online-Only Auction, ending Dec 18: SOUTHARD, CHARLES ZIBEON, Trout Fly-Fishing in America. $400 to $600
19th Century Shop: Charles Darwin on sexuality and the transmission of hereditary characteristics: Autograph Letter Signed to Lawson Tait. Down, 17 January [1877].

19th Century Shop: MILTON, JOHN. Paradise Lost. A Poem written in ten books. London: 1667. A very rare example with the contemporary binding untouched and with a 1667 title page.

19th Century Shop: Hamilton secures the ratification of the Constitution: The Debates and Proceedings of the Convention of the State of New-York, assembled at Poughkeespsie, on the 17th June, 1788.

19th Century Shop: The social contract “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains”: ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUES. Principes du Droit Politique [Du Contract Social]. Amsterdam: Michel Rey, 1762

19th Century Shop: “The first English textbook on geometrical land-measurement and surveying”: BENESE, RICHARD. This Boke Sheweth the Maner of Measurynge All Maner of Lande…
Bonhams New York: Fine Books and Manuscripts Including the World of Hilary Knight. December 5, 2018

Bonhams, Dec 5: KNIGHT, HILARY. The Original Portrait of Eloise that Hung at the Plaza Hotel. $100,000 to 150,000

Bonhams, Dec 5: WARHOL, ANDY. "Iced Lemon Delight," an Original Watercolor Presented to Hilary Knight's cat, Phoebe $8,000 to 12,000

Bonhams, Dec 5: SENDAK, MAURICE. Where the Wild Things Are. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED with drawing to Hilary Knight in the month following publication. $10,000 to 15,000

Bonhams New York: Fine Books and Manuscripts Including the World of Hilary Knight. December 5, 2018

Bonhams, Dec 5: NOLAND, KENNETH. Original circle painting, untitled, acrylic and ink on cloth, for cover of monograph $8,000 to 12,000

Bonhams, Dec 5: TOULOUSE-LAUTREC. Histoires Naturelles, 1899. With 22 original lithographs. $10,000 to 15,000

Bonhams, Dec 5: SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. A Collection of Poems, [1711]. The first authoritative and complete collected Sonnets.$15,000 to 20,000

Bonhams New York: Fine Books and Manuscripts Including the World of Hilary Knight. December 5, 2018

Bonhams, Dec 5: LONDON, JACK. The Call of the Wild. 1903. First edition, first state jacket. $2,000 to 3,000

Bonhams, Dec 5: FROST, ROBERT. Autograph Manuscript of "Build Soil," 12 pp, 1932-1936. $15,000 to 20,000

Bonhams, Dec 5: GOULD, GLENN. Glenn Gould's extensively annotated copy of Bach's Goldberg Variations $100,000 to 150,000

Bonhams New York: Fine Books and Manuscripts Including the World of Hilary Knight. December 5, 2018

Bonhams, Dec 5: PLATH, SYLVIA. EARLY Autograph Letter Signed, about her beginnings as a writer, Northampton, MA, 1951. $7,000 to 10,000

Bonhams, Dec 5: HOUDINI, HARRY. A collection of 11 cast iron shackle and lock items from Houdini's personal collection. $20,000 to 30,000

Bonhams, Dec 5: M4 ENGIMA MACHINE, with very rare RARE HYDRA KEY ENVELOPE. $400,000 to 600,000
Arenberg Auctions: Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps, and Works on Paper. December 14 & 15, 2018

Arenberg Auctions, Dec 14-15: LÉOPOLD II of Belgium. Autograph letter signed to Ferdinand de Lesseps. (Brusselss, 30th of August 1881. € 500 / 600

Arenberg Auctions, Dec 14-15: Unique collection of c. 280 satirical postcards on Léopold II of Belgium. € 3.000 / 3.500

Arenberg Auctions, Dec 14-15: Horae, use of Rouen, c. 1475. € 22.000 / 30.000

Arenberg Auctions: Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps, and Works on Paper. December 14 & 15, 2018

Arenberg Auctions, Dec 14-15: Sensuyt la tresplaisante hystoire du preux et vaillant Guerin de Montglaue [...]. € 6.000 / 8.000

Arenberg Auctions, Dec 14-15: SCUTENAIRE, Louis. Mes inscriptions. 1945-1963. € 1.000 / 1.200

Arenberg Auctions, Dec 14-15: Études Gèographiques [puzzle]. € 70 / 100

Arenberg Auctions: Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps, and Works on Paper. December 14 & 15, 2018

Arenberg Auctions, Dec 14-15: Unique series of fifty 19th-c. Persian miniatures. € 1.500 / 2.500

Arenberg Auctions, Dec 14-15: SIXTUS IV. De sanguine Christi et De potentia Dei, 1474. € 4.500 / 6.000

Arenberg Auctions, Dec 14-15: Joan Miró, lithographies. € 200 / 300

Arenberg Auctions, Dec 14-15: MERIAN, Anna Maria Sibylla. [Metamorphosis of a brown butterfly]. € 4.000 / 5.000

Rare Book Monthly

Articles - May - 2018 Issue

Auctions in May

- by Bruce E. McKinney

The May calendar is thick with possibilities

We are moving into the spring seasonal strength in the auction field for rare books, manuscripts, maps and ephemera. These fields have been strong all spring as the number of sales posted over the first three months, 309 for January-March, increased by 12.7%, from 274 posted for the same period in 2017.

For April 2018 the statistics have yet to be developed but it is clear that May will be an important month.

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<center>Sotheby’s New York Fine Books & Manuscripts Online Ending December 17

Sotheby’s Online, Now - Dec 17: SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies… The Second Impression. 1632. $100,000 to $150,000

Sotheby’s Online, Now - Dec 17: GEORGE CURZON, 1ST MARQUESS CURZON OF KEDLESTON. “Curzon Tiger Hunt.” [India: circa 1901]. 120 albumen photographs. $3,000 to $5,000

Sotheby’s Online, Now - Dec 17: (CASSADY, NEAL). Kerouac, Jack. On the Road. New York: Viking Press, 1957. Inscribed. $10,000 to $15,000

Sotheby’s Online, Now - Dec 17: VEGA, JOSEPH PENSO DE LA. Confusion de Confusiones. Dialogos curiosos entre un Philosopho agudo, un Mercader discrete... Amsterdam, 1688. $200,000 to $300,000

Sotheby’s Online, Now - Dec 17: RACKHAM, ARTHUR — [WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE]. "The Moon Like to a Silver Bow New-Bent in Heaven," original illustration for A Midsummer Night's Dream. $12,000 to $18,000
Swann Auction Galleries: Jean de Mandeville, Reysen und Wanderschafften durch das Gelobte Land, Strassburg, 1488. Sold for $106,250.

Swann Auction Galleries: José González Cabrera Bueno, Navegación Especulativa, y Práctica, Manila, 1734. Sold for $55,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Francis W. Winton, manuscript on pow-wows with indigenous Canadians, 1881. Sold for $65,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Louise Bourgeois, He Disappeared Into Complete Silence, portfolio with complete text & 9 engravings, 1947. Sold for $413,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, first American edition, Boston, 1929. Sold for $9,375.

Swann Auction Galleries: Sir William Russell Flint, gouache & watercolor illustration for Homer's Odyssey, 1924. Sold for $22,500.

Swann Auction Galleries: Kurt Vonnegut, archive of 12 letters, signed to his family, 6 illustrated, 1930s-40s. Sold for $12,500.

Swann Auction Galleries: Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, first edition, presentation copy, signed & inscribed, London, 1893. Sold for $27,500.

Swann Auction Galleries: Emil Cardinaux, St. Moritz, 1918. Sold for $17,500.

Swann Auction Galleries: R.J. Waters, 3 panoramas of the San Francisco earthquake & fire, 1906. Sold for $21,250.

Swann Auction Galleries: Album with 200 cartes-de-visite, including images by Felice Beato, John Thompson & F.W. Sutton, Japan & China, 1863-69. Sold for $35,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, Fishkill, NY, December 1776. Sold for $40,000.

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