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Rare Books & Manuscripts Auction at Skinner
June 2, 2017
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592 Lots. Auctioneer’s note: “A variety of periods and genres, featuring signed historic and literary correspondence and documents, Medieval Books of Hours, incunabula, early American Protestant theology, decorative sets, first editions, 19th century illustrated travel books, Audubon prints, a collection of New World maps and important early works of cartography.”
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Manuscript Document Signed Granting Pensions to Revolutionary War Veterans. $60,000-80,000.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS. Signed Military Commission. $4,000-6,000.
THORNTON, JESSY QUINN. Oregon and California in 1848: Including Recent and Authentic Information on the Subject of Gold Mine. $2,000-3,000.
Archive of Original Material Related to the Sculptor HELEN FARNSWORTH MEARS. $8,000-$12,000.
WYETH, ANDREW. Archive of Forty-three Signed Autograph Letters and Notes, with Sketches. $80,000-120,000.
A first edition of AUGUSTINE’S SERMONS edited, additions by Sebastian Brant (1457-1521). $20,000-30,000.
Bible, New Testament, English, DOUAY-RHEIMS, THE NEVV TESTAMENT. Rheims: John Fogny, 1582. First edition. “Full late 19th century crushed dark blue morocco, gilt extra; surface scuffs, ex library, with a stamp on the title and a few in the text, generally a large, clean copy.” $10,000-15,000.
BOOK OF HOURS. Illuminated Latin Manuscript on Parchment. Rouen, c. 1470-1490. “Quarto-format manuscript featuring eleven full-page miniatures within borders featuring fruit and floral designs, arabesques, and geometric patterns; calendar pages and text leaves bordered in the same fashion… 106 leaves (of 108)… bound in full brown French morocco, likely from the 17th or 18th century”. $40,000-60,000.
WHITMAN, WALT. Leaves of Grass, Presentation Copy, Death-bed Edition. ‘Presented by Walt. Whitman to his friend William Ingram. In the Year 1892 while sick in bed, before he passed away. It is one of ten of the last edition, taken from the printer before they were bound’ $4,500-6,500. (See also 1444 and 1445).
PAOLO FORLANI (fl. circa 1560-1571) Il Disegno del discoperto della nova Franza. “The earliest collectible map to name the strait separating the American and Asian continents and the earliest separately published map of North America.” $40,000-60,000.
QU’RAN, Timbuktu, Mali, 18th Century. $6,000-$8,000.
Khwaja Abdullah Ansari. PERSIAN MANUSCRIPT. $2,000-3,000.
JOURNAL DES DAMES ET DES MODES. $4,000-$6,000.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL, CHARLES DICKENS’S COPY…with Dickens’s bookplate with a lion and a star, pasted inside the front board, along with another plate that reads, “From the Library of Charles Dickens, Gadshill Place, June, 1870,” $4,000-$6,000.
TWAIN, MARK. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court , Signed Copy. $700-900.
Grimm, Jacob & Wilhelm. Hansel and Gretel and Other Stories, ILLUSTRATED AND SIGNED BY KAY NIELSEN. $1,500-2,500.
DANTE ALIGHIERI. The Divina Commedia. First English Edition. $4,000-6,000.
PERSIAN CALLIGRAPHY, an Accordion Book of Twenty-one Examples, 18th-19th Century. $4,000-6,000.
CURIE, MARIE. Traité de Radioactivité. $800-1,000.
Full catalogue is here.