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Dominic Winter Auctioneers
June 18 & 19
Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First EditionsDominic Winter, June 18-19: World. Van Geelkercken (N.), Orbis Terrarum Descriptio Duobis..., circa 1618. £4,000-6,000.Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Moll (Herman). A New Exact Map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain..., circa 1715. £2,000-3,000.Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Churchill (Winston S.). The World Crisis, 5 volumes bound in 6, 1st edition, 1923-31. £1,000-1,500Dominic Winter Auctioneers
June 18 & 19
Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First EditionsDominic Winter, June 18-19: Darwin (Charles). On the Origin of Species, 2nd edition, 2nd issue, 1860. £1,500-2,000.Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, 6 volumes in 3, 1st quarto ed, 1855-56. £1,500-2,000.Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Saint-Exupéry (Antoine de, 1900-1944). Pilote de guerre (Flight to Arras), 1942. £10,000-15,000.Dominic Winter Auctioneers
June 18 & 19
Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First EditionsDominic Winter, June 18-19: Austen (Jane, 1775-1817). Signature, cut from a letter, no date. £7,000-10,000Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Huxley (Aldous). Brave New World, 1st edition, with wraparound band, 1932. £4,000-6,000Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Tolkien (J. R. R.) The Hobbit, 1st edition, 2nd impression, 1937. £3,000-5,000Dominic Winter Auctioneers
June 18 & 19
Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First EditionsDominic Winter, June 18-19: Rackham (Arthur, 1867-1939). Princess by the Sea (from Irish Fairy Tales), circa 1920. £4,000-6,000Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Kelmscott Press. The Story of the Glittering Plain, Walter Crane's copy, 1894. £3,000-4,000Dominic Winter, June 18-19: King (Jessie Marion, 1875-1949). The Summer House, watercolour. £4,000-6,000 -
Bonhams, June 16-24: KELMSCOTT PRESS. RUSKIN. The Nature of Gothic. 1892. $1,500 - $2,500Bonhams, June 16-24: ASHENDENE PRESS. The Wisdom of Jesus. 1932. $2,000 - $3,000Bonhams, June 16-24: CHARLOTTE BRONTE WRITES AS GOVERNESS. Autograph Letter Signed, 1851. $15,000 - $25,000Bonhams, June 16-24: FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF WUTHERING HEIGHTS. BRONTE, Emily. New York, 1848. $3,000 - $5,000Bonhams, June 16-24: IAN FLEMING ASSOCIATION COPY. You Only Live Twice. London, 1964. $7,000 - $9,000Bonhams, June 16-24: DELUXE EDITION WITH ORIGINAL PAINTING. BUKOWSKI, Charles. War All the Time. 1984. $3,000 - $5,000Bonhams, June 16-24: EINSTEIN'S MOST POWERFUL STATEMENT ON THE ATOMIC BOMB. Original Typed Manuscript Signed, "On My Participation in the Atom Bomb Project," 1953. $100,000 - $150,000Bonhams, June 16-24: EINSTEIN ON SCIENCE, WAR AND MORALITY. Autograph Letter Signed, 1949. $20,000 - $30,000Bonhams, June 16-24: SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. WASHINGTON, George. Engraved document signed, 1786. $8,000 - $12,000Bonhams, June 16-24: AN EARLY CHINESE-MADE 34-STAR U.S. CONSULAR FLAG. $8,000 - $12,000Bonhams, June 16-24: SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF LINCOLN WITH HIS SON TAD. 1864. $60,000 - $90,000Bonhams, June 16-24: MALCOLM X WRITES FROM KENYA. Postcard signed, 1964. $4,000 - $6,000
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Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 567. One of the Earliest & Most Desirable Printed Maps of Arabia - by Holle/Germanus (1482) Est. $55,000 - $65,000Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 681. Zatta's Complete Atlas with 218 Maps in Full Contemporary Color (1779) Est. $27,500 - $35,000Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 347. MacDonald Gill's Landmark "Wonderground Map" of London (1914) Est. $1,800 - $2,100Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 1. Fries' "Modern" World Map with Portraits of Five Kings (1525) Est. $4,000 - $4,750Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 539. Ortelius' Superb, Decorative Map of Cyprus in Full Contemporary Color (1573) Est. $1,100 - $1,400Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 51. Mercator's Foundation Map for the Americas in Full Contemporary Color (1630) Est. $3,250 - $4,000Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 667. Manuscript Bible Leaf with Image of Mary and Baby Jesus (1450) Est. $1,900 - $2,200Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 226. "A Powerful Example of Color Used to Make a Point" (1895) Est. $400 - $600Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 290. One of the Most Decorative Early Maps of South America - from Linschoten's "Itinerario" (1596) Est. $7,000 - $8,500Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 62. Coronelli's Influential Map of North America with the Island of California (1688) Est. $10,000 - $12,000Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 589. The First European-Printed Map of China - by Ortelius (1584) Est. $4,000 - $5,000
Rare Book Monthly
Book Catalogue Reviews - November - 2008 Issue
Americana and the West from Clark Rare Books
By Michael Stillman
Clark Rare Books recently published their Catalog 935 of Americana, The West, and General. This collection includes many new acquisitions, primarily on the westward moving American Frontier. Clark's catalogues are always appealing for those who collect or are interested in the American West. They include both books published when the Old West was still new, and more recent accounts of or reprints from those earlier days. Here are some of the items offered in this latest Clark catalogue.
Item 113 is a Special Edition of the accounts of Zebulon Pike's explorations: The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, to the headwaters of the Mississippi River, through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, during the years 1805-6-7. This three-volume set from Elliott Coues was published in 1895 in just 150 copies. Along with a reprinting of Pike's original work of 1810, it includes extensive commentary, a memoir of Pike, information about the Indian tribes he encountered, and maps. Pike first unsuccessfully sought to locate the headwaters of the Mississippi. However, he is better known for his second expedition into what is now the American Southwest, but much of which was Spanish territory at the time. He was not a welcome visitor, but he did bring back much information, and has been memorialized with Pike's Peak, which he never climbed but viewed from a distance. Editor Coues was an important American naturalist, with a specialty in ornithology. Priced at $2,950.
Item 151 is an interesting Mexican-American document: The Present Condition of Mexico. Message from the President of the United States. The year was 1862, which means the President was Abraham Lincoln. The European powers were messing with Mexico, attempting to unseat its reform leader, Benito Juarez. America, thoroughly occupied by its own civil war, was helpless to do much about it. Only a year later, Juarez would be forced into exile by the French, though he would regain power when the French installed government was routed after America's Civil War. Along with reporting on the activities of the European powers, the report also notes activities by the Confederacy in Mexico. $95.
Not all presidents were created equal. For every Lincoln, there was a couple of Coolidges. Item 44 is the November 1927 issue of The Black Hills Engineer. It covers the President's summer trip to the Black Hills and other points in South Dakota, including a visit with the Sioux. Coolidge did not need to be too engaged with his day job at the time. After all, the economy was humming along just fine in 1927. Item 44. $48.50.
Item 10 is an unusual work from Clark's associate Arthur H. Clark Company publications from 1915. It is Frank M. Gregg's The Foundation of a Nation: The story of the pilgrim fathers...as told in the journals of Francis Beaumont. There was no Beaumont on the Mayflower. He was strictly Gregg's alter ego. This is a piece of historical fiction, quite unusual for Clark publications, which are generally nonfiction works. However, Clark notes its uniqueness in the Clark publishing history by another point - it is the only work they ever published relating to New England. $95.
Here is another unusual item: George W. James' The California Birthday Book: Prose and Poetical Selections from the Writings of Living California Authors, with a Biographical Sketch of each. We will update this title to "not living" authors as the book was published in 1909. It contains pages for each day of the year. On the verso is a short poem or words of prose from a California author, with the recto blank except for the date, allowing the owner to add his or her own thoughts. However, the original owner instead had several of these pages signed by the authors of the words on the opposite side. Item 74. $70.
You may reach Clark Rare Books at 405-307-0088 or info@clarkrarebooks.com.