American Historical Ephemera & Photograph comes to Hindman on November 3rd and 4th, following shortly after by Fine Books & Manuscripts including Americana on November 8th and 9th
As we head into November many of the auction houses worldwide present their most interesting material. Hindman of Chicago has two upcoming sales; No. 1095 on November 3rd and 4th, and No. 1097 on November 8th and 9th. They are American Historical Ephemera & Photography and quickly after, Fine Books & Manuscripts including Americana. Both sales deserve collector and institutional attention. The structure of collecting has been adjusting to the increasing possibility that personally relevant material will be found in unexpected places. These interesting sales at Hindman are good examples.
Not so long ago books were the category but over the past twenty years collectible paper has emerged as the rich and complex category heading that subsumes ephemera, maps, manuscripts, books, and related objects all within single sales. These sales celebrate that elaboration of scale.
The first sale is on November 3rd and 4th, the first 50 lots of this 634 lot sale include two books one of which is a sammelband, 2 manuscripts, 2 pamphlets, a powder horn, 6 swords or pikes, one lot of campaign buttons, 2 rifles and a gun, 1 lot of unopened packets of cartridges for Colt’s Pocket, Army, and Navy pistols, 2 Bowie knives, and a significant number of early and Civil War tintype images.
This said, if you sense what this sale includes, you’ll have to set aside time to get deeper because many other collectible categories find kindred spirits here and as you become absorbed in the images and descriptions, you may want to start making notes.
Said another way, this sale would have been at home in the later 19th century auction rooms when rare and obscure material used to be stacked 10 at a time, bringing opening bids of a nickel or a dime. The prices have changed but it’s nice to find that the complexity continues to emerge in the rooms. For potential acquirers the broad range of possibilities suggest you can effectively collect in very focused ways.
This sale conveys that sense of opportunity.
Of course, there is the other sale.
Fine Books & Manuscripts including Americana sale on 8-9 November includes 709 lots of miscellaneous material that will reward the diligent to run your searches on the Hindman site. For instance, in this sale there are 10 lots of fore-edge painted books. While this is an obscure collecting obsession, examples don’t show up often but when they do, they tend to arrive in the rooms in bunches. For reference, in Transactions+ 55,893 [of 12,449,477 ] lots include that term recently.
As well, there’s an appealing group of manuscripts but you’ll have to take my word for it because a keyword search for the term manuscript doesn’t bring them up. Search for lots 632-641. Such material in collections tend to hold up well.
Another example of material that will appeal to the specialist collector whose enthusiasm runs in the direct of Al Capone they will find lots 560-564. Whether Hindman makes offers you can not refuse I’ll let you resolve that amicably.
As to the general run of the material, as was true with No. 1095, it will be worthwhile running through the electronic presentation for chance connections. Many of the items include references to their sellers and one I encourage you to look for is from Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil, a long-time friend of Rare Book Hub, who is now watching the field from semi-retirement. Hindman has been handling the dispersal of his stock.
All in all, these two sales offer chances to experience the field both as it was and as it is becoming. Bon chance!
Here are links to the two sales I mention:
American Historical Ephemera & Photography, Featuring Property the James Milgram, M. D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana & Historical Documents
RareBookBuyer.com We Buy Librairies & Rare Books Nationwide ABAA Dealer
RareBookBuyer.com Specialized in Purchasing Institutional Collections & Deacccessioned Books
RareBookBuyer.com We Buy Librairies & Rare Books Nationwide ABAA Dealer
RareBookBuyer.com Specialized in Purchasing Institutional Collections & Deacccessioned Books
RareBookBuyer.com We Buy Librairies & Rare Books Nationwide ABAA Dealer
RareBookBuyer.com Specialized in Purchasing Institutional Collections & Deacccessioned Books
RareBookBuyer.com We Buy Librairies & Rare Books Nationwide ABAA Dealer
RareBookBuyer.com Specialized in Purchasing Institutional Collections & Deacccessioned Books
RareBookBuyer.com We Buy Librairies & Rare Books Nationwide ABAA Dealer
Sotheby's Fine Books, Manuscripts & More Available for Immediate Purchase
Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. 11,135 USD
Sotheby’s: Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven and Other Poems, 1845. 33,000 USD
Sotheby’s: Leo Tolstoy, Clara Bow. War and Peace, 1886. 22,500 USD
Sotheby’s: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1902. 7,500 USD
Sotheby’s: F. Scott Fitzgerald. This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and Others, 1920-1941. 24,180 USD
Freeman’s | Hindman Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana November 14
Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: LEROUX, Gaston. The Phantom of the Opera. FIRST AM. ED, FIRST ISSUE IN THE VERY RARE DUST JACKET. 1911. $6,000 – 8,000.
Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: GOULD, John. A Monograph of the Trochilidae...Humming-Birds. L., [1849-] 1861. $60,000 – 80,000.
Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: A COMPLETE RUN of Limited Editions Club publications, v.p. [mostly New York], 1929-2010. $50,000 – 60,000.
Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: ORWELL, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Lon., 1949. FIRST EDITION IN A VERY FINE DUST JACKET. $6,000 – 8,000.
Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: GOULD. A Monograph of the Ramphastidae...Toucans. L., [1852-] 54. SECOND ED. $35,000 – 45,000.
Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14:The Federalist. NY, 1788. FIRST EDITION, THICK PAPER COPY. $60,000 – 80,000.
Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: SELBY. Plates to Selby’s Illustrations of British Ornithology. Edin., [1833-] 34. $20,000 – 30,000.
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: APRES DE MANNEVILLETTE Le Neptune Oriental
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: CASSAS Eaux fortes de la Sicile et quelques vues d’Espagne
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: CASSINI DE THURY Carte générale et particulière de la France.
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: JOUY; GARNERAY Vues des côtes de France dans l'Océan et dans la Méditerranée
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: LA PÉROUSE Voyage autour du monde
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: LE GENTIL DE LA GALAISIERE Voyage dans les Mers de l’Inde
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: LICENT Hoang Ho, Pai Ho, Loan Ho, Leao Ho. Itinéraires suivis dans le bassin du golfe du Pei Tcheuly
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: FRENCH SCHOOL FROM THE 19th CENTURY Panorama d’Athènes
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: PEETERS Description des principales villes, havres et isles du golfe de Venise
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: PÉRON; FREYCINET Voyage de découverte aux terres australes
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: STACKELBERG La Grèce : vues pittoresques et topographiques.
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November: VALENTINER Atlas des Sonnensystems.
Forum Auctions Online Sale: The Detective Fiction Collection of John Cooper Ending 7th November, 2024
Forum, Nov. 7: Christie (Agatha). The Thirteen Problems, first edition, The Crime Club, 1932. £15,000 to £20,000.
Forum, Nov. 7: Christie (Agatha). Dumb Witness, first edition, 1937. £3,000 to £4,000.
Forum, Nov. 7: Christie (Agatha). Cards on the Table, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £2,000 to £3,000.
Forum, Nov. 7: [Carr (John Dickson)], "Carter Dickson" and John Rhode. Drop to his Death, first edition, Heinemann, [1939]. £600 to £800.
Forum, Nov. 7: Berkeley (Anthony). Jumping Jenny, first edition, Hodder and Stoughton, 1933. £800 to £1,200.
Forum Auctions Online Sale: The Detective Fiction Collection of John Cooper Ending 7th November, 2024
Forum, Nov. 7: Marsh (Ngaio). Overture to Death, first edition, The Crime Club, 1939. £600 to £800.
Forum, Nov. 7: [Day-Lewis (Cecil)] "Nicholas Blake". The Beast Must Die, first edition, 1938. £750 to £1,000.
Forum, Nov. 7: Brand (Christianna). Green for Danger, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1945. £600 to £800.
Forum, Nov. 7: Christie (Agatha). Murder is Easy, first edition, signed by the author, 1939. £3,000 to £4,000.
Forum, Nov. 7: Sayers (Dorothy L.) Lord Peter Views the Body, first edition, Gollancz, 1928. £6,000 to £8,000.