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Fine Books and Works on Paper (Forum Auctions)
July 10, 2017
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475 Lots. Literature and History, Manuscripts and Letters, Maps, Modern First Editions, Travel and Atlases, Science, Private Press, and more. Including:
Slavery.- Clarkson (Thomas) The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament, 2 vol., first edition, presentation copy to William Wilberforce with long inscription, modern half calf, 8vo, 1808. £1,500-2,000
Aesop. Esopi appologi sive mythologi cum quibusdam carminum et fabularum additionibus Sebastiani Brant, Basel, Jacob Wolff de Pforzheim, 1501.. £15,000-20,000
Americana.- Vespucci (Amerigo) S’ensuyt le Nouveau Monde et navigations faictes par Emeric de Vespuce , Paris, Jean Trepperel, 1516; bound with 2 other early unrelated French works. £6,000-8,000
Galenus (Claudius) [Opera], 5 vol., Venice, Heirs of Aldus Manutius and Andrea Torresano, 1525. £25,000-35,000
Burne-Jones (Edward) Original sketches, collection of 14 drawings, [1890’s]. £1,000-1,500
Archive of letters to Robert Catterson-Smith from William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, Georgiana Burne-Jones and others. £1,500-2,000
[Brontë (Charlotte, Emily & Anne)], “Currer, Ellis & Acton Bell”. Poems, first edition, first issue, with A.L.s from Charlotte Brontë tipped in, first issue binding, Aylott and Jones, 1846. £30,000-40,000
[Brontë (Charlotte, Emily & Anne)], “Currer, Ellis & Acton Bell”. Poems, first edition, first issue, Aylott and Jones, 1846. £15,000-20,000
[Brontë (Emily and Anne)], “Ellis and Acton Bell”.Wuthering Heights; Agnes Grey, together 3 vol., first editions, Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847. £60,000 – 80,000
[Brontë (Charlotte)] Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell, 3 vol., first edition, Smith, Elder and Co., 1847. £20,000 – 30,000
Bell (Vanessa, 1879-1961) ‘Charlotte Brontë’, plate design for Kenneth Clark, 1932. £5,000-6,000
Hardy (Thomas) The Return of the Native, 3 vol., first edition in book form, first issue, original cloth, 8vo, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1878. £2,000-3,000
Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) Poems by the Way, one of 300 copies, original limp vellum, small 4to, Kelmscott Press, 1891. £1,000-1,500
Dickens (Charles) The Works, 80 vol., extra-illustrated with A.L.s. by Dickens, 1906-08. £6,000-8,000