Rare Book Monthly

Articles - January - 2006 Issue

Additions to the <b>AED</b>

Leekley Catalogue 100, Item 172

Leekley Catalogue 100, Item 172


By Bruce McKinney

During the last month of 2005 we added interesting historical source material to the AED, the Americana Exchange Database, which now contains 1.293 million records. In some cases members requested specific material and in other cases our on-going research projects are facilitated by elaborating older source records. We are currently holding more than four million records which we are evaluating for addition to the AED.

Of items recently added three are catalogues issued by important dealers: John Jenkins, Thomas Madigan and Leekley Rare & Scholarly Books. All made important contributions to the field and we include their work both as a service to researchers and to honor their contributions. Two other sources are bibliographies issued by Glen Dawson of Dawson Books as part of the Early California Travel Series.

Leekley Catalogue 100: A Flourish for Wright Howes. This is a catalogue of 369 items issued in 1971 by Leekley Rare & Scholarly Books of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois which includes a tribute to Wright Howes. [Leekley-100]

In 1951 Glen Dawson issued Baja California 1533 - 1950. This is a bibliography of 60 titles on the area. It is No. 4 in the Early California Travel Series. [DawsonECTS-4]

In 1953 Mr. Dawson published "The Books of the Colorado River & the Grand Canyon." This is a selective bibliography by Francis P. Farquhar. It covers 125 titles. It is No. 12 in the Early California Travel Series. [DawsonECTS-12]

In 1929 Thomas F. Madigan of New York issued "A Catalogue of Lincolniana," an extensive collection of well-described Lincoln and Lincoln-related materials that were expensive then and today are exceptionally valuable. There are 211 lots. [Madigan-29]

American Celebration by John H. Jenkins. This catalogue was issued in 1976 to mark the American bicentennial. There are 617 lots, all well described, many exceptionally rare. [Jenkins JJ100]

Rare Book Monthly

  • DOYLE
    Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
    July 23, 2025
    DOYLE, July 23: WALL, BERNHARDT. Greenwich Village. Types, Tenements & Temples. Estimate $300-500
    DOYLE, July 23: STOKES, I. N. PHELPS. The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909. New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1915-28. Estimate: $3,000-5,000
    DOYLE, July 23: [AUTOGRAPH - US PRESIDENT]FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. A signed photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Estimate $500-800
    DOYLE, July 23: [ARION PRESS]. ABBOTT, EDWIN A. Flatland. A Romance of Many Dimensions. San Francisco, 1980. Estimate $2,000-3,000.
    DOYLE, July 23: TOLSTOY, LYOF N. and NATHAN HASKELL DOLE, translator. Anna Karénina ... in eight parts. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., [1886]. Estimate: $400-600
    DOYLE, July 23: ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. London: Bloomsbury, 2000. Estimate $1,200-1,800
  • Freeman’s | Hindman
    Western Manuscripts and Miniatures
    July 8, 2025
    Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8. FRANCESCO PETRARCH (b. Arezzo, 20 July 1304; d. Arqua Petrarca, 19 July 1374). $20,000-30,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8. CIRCLE OF THE MASTER OF THE VITAE IMPERATORUM (active Milan, 1431-1459). $15,000-20,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8. CIRCLE OF ATTAVANTE DEGLI ATTAVANTI (GABRIELLO DI VANTE) (active Florence, c. 1452-c. 1520/25). $15,000-20,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8. FOLLOWER OF HERMAN SCHEERE (active London, c. 1405-1425). $15,000-20,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8. An exceptionally rare, illuminated music leaf from a Mozarabic Antiphonal with sister leaves mostly in museum collections. $11,500-14,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8. Exceptional leaf from a prestigious Antiphonary by a leading illuminator of the late Duecento. $11,500-14,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8. CIRCLE OF THE MASTER OF MS REID 33 and SELWERD ABBEY SCRIPTORIUM (AGNES MARTINI?) (active The Netherlands, Groningen, c. 1468-1510). $10,000-15,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8. Previously unknown illumination from one of the most renowned Gothic Choir Book sets of the Middle Ages. $6,000-8,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Books, Manuscripts and Music from Medieval to Modern
    Now through July 10, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Ending July 10: Book of Hours by the Masters of Otto van Moerdrecht, Use of Sarum, in Latin, Southern Netherlands (Bruges), c.1450. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Sotheby’s, Ending July 10: Albert Einstein. Autograph letter signed, to Attilio Palatino, on his research into General Relativity, 12 May 1929. £12,000 to £18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Ending July 10: John Gould. The Birds of Europe, [1832-] 1837, 5 volumes, contemporary half morocco, subscriber’s copy. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Books, Manuscripts and Music from Medieval to Modern
    Now through July 10, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Ending July 10: Ian Fleming. A collection of James Bond first editions, 8 volumes in all. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Sotheby’s, Ending July 10: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, Ending July 10: J.R.R. Tolkien. Autograph letter signed, to Amy Ronald, on Pauline Baynes's map of Middle Earth, 1970. £7,000 to £10,000.
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