<center>Forum Auctions Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins 26th September 2023

Forum, Sep. 26: Alken (Henry), Thomas Egerton et al. The Melange of Humour, first collected edition, Printed by W. Lewis, [c.1835]. £2,000 to £3,000.

Forum, Sep. 26: [Cheny (John) and Thomas Butler, publishers]. [Horses & Their Pedigrees], Cheny & Butler, 1740-1746 or 1751-1753. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum, Sep. 26: Dikenman (R.) Voyage en Suisse, Zurich, [c.1830]. £2,000 to £3,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins 26th September 2023

Forum, Sep. 26: Eckert (H.A.) Monten (Dietrich) and F. Schlever. Das K.K. Russische Militair aus dem grossen Werke Saemmtliche Truppen von Europa, first edition, Wuerzburg, 1840 [but c.1842]. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum, Sep. 26: Havell, Junior (Robert). Costa Scena, or a Cruise along the Southern Coast of Kent, hand-coloured aquatint panorama with original boxwood drum, 1823. £3,000 to £4,000.

Forum, Sep. 26: Heideloff (Victor). Ansichten des Herzoglich Württembergischen Landsitzes Hohenheim, first edition in original 6 parts, Nuremberg, 1795-1800. £4,000 to £6,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins 26th September 2023

Forum, Sep. 26: Jones (Owen) and Jules Goury. Views on the Nile: from Cairo to the Second Cataract, first edition, Graves and Warmsley, 1843. £3,000 to £4,000.

Forum, Sep. 26: Meyer (Johann Heinrich). Der Rigiberg in Zeichnungen nach der Natur, Zurich, Fuessli, 1807. £3,000 to £4,000.

Forum, Sep. 26: Nichol (Andrew). Five Views of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, first edition, Dublin, William Frederick Wakeman, 1834. £5,000 to £7,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins 26th September 2023

Forum, Sep. 26: Schetky (J. C.) A series of four sketches, illustrative of various situations of His Majesty's Ship Pique, Portsea, Trives & Maynard, 1835. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum, Sep. 26: Stackelberg (Otto Magnus von). Costumes et Usages des Peuples de la Grece Moderne, first edition, Rome, 1825. £20,000 to £30,000.

Forum, Sep. 26: Stucchi (Stanislao). Raccolta di Scene Teatrali eseguite o disegnate dai più celebri Pittori Scenici in Milano, 3 vol., Milan, 1817. £6,000 to £8,000.
$Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light…, first edition, 1704. £15,000 to £20,000.$

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28th September 2023

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Asia.- Mandeville (Sir John). Tractato bellissimo delle piu maravigliose cose & piu motabile che sitrovino nelle parte delmondo, Florence, [Lorenzo Morgiani], [?1505] or possibly, 1496-99. £40,000 to £60,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Arabic ms.- Ghazaliyaat Kan'at al-Arabi [Divan of Poetry written in Arabic], illuminated manuscript in Arabic, Safavid Persia (probably Isfahan), [second quarter of 16th century]. £12,000 to £16,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Foxe (John). Actes and monuments of these latter and perillous dayes, touching matters of the Church…, first edition, dwellyng ouer Aldersgate, [20th March, 1563]. £15,000 to £20,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28th September 2023

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Barrie (J.M.) Peter Pan or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up, first play edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "To my dear Jane Pan", 1928. £3,000 to £4,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Gillray (James). John Bull taking a Luncheon: -or- British Cooks, cramming Old Grumble-Gizzard, with Bonne-Chére, etching with hand-colouring, 1798. £1,500 to £2,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Middle East.- Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia, 6 vol. bound as 4, first edition, 1842-49. £12,000 to £18,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28th September 2023

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Greenwood (C. & J.) Map of London made from an Actual Survey in the Years 1824, 1825 & 1826..., first edition, engraved map, 1827. £15,000 to £20,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light…, first edition, 1704. £15,000 to £20,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Smith (Percy John Delf). Collection of 19 original preliminary drawings for "Twelve Drypoints of the War 1914-1918", circa 1914-1918; together with 11 drypoints from "Twelve Drypoints of the War 1914-1918", 1925. £15,000 to

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28th September 2023

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Guild of Women Binders.- Watts (Alaric A.) Lyrics of the Heart: with other poems, in a stunning richly gilt green crushed morocco by the Guild of Women Binders, Longman, 1851. £12,000 to £18,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Cosway binding.- Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge). "Lewis Carroll". Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in a Cosway binding with miniatures by Miss C.B. Currie, 1868. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, first impression, 1953. £18,000 to £22,000.
<center>Swann Auction Galleries View Our Record Breaking Results

Swann: Charles Monroe Schulz, The Peanuts gang, complete set of 13 drawings, ink, 1971. Sold June 15 — $50,000.

Swann: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Family Archive of Photographs & Letters. Sold June 1 — $60,000.

Swann: Victor H. Green, The Negro Motorist Green Book, New York, 1949. Sold March 30 — $50,000.

Swann: William Shakespeare, King Lear; Othello; [and] Anthony & Cleopatra; Extracted from the First Folio, London, 1623. Sold May 4— $185,000.

<center>Swann Auction Galleries View Our Record Breaking Results

Swann: William Samuel Schwartz, A Bridge in Baraboo, Wisconsin, oil on canvas, circa 1938. Sold February 16 — $32,500.

Swann: Lena Scott Harris, Group of approximately 65 hand-colored botanical studies, all apparently California native plants, hand-colored silver prints, circa 1930s. Sold February 23 — $37,500.

Swann: Suzanne Jackson, Always Something To Look For, acrylic & pencil on linen canvas, circa 1974. Sold April 6 — $87,500.

Swann: Gustav Klimt, Das Werk von Gustav Klimt, complete with 50 printed collotype plates, Vienna & Leipzig, 1918. Sold June 15 — $68,750.
<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers September 27 The Library of the Late Christopher Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey: Part One

Dominic Winter, Sep. 27: Bible, Dominican Use, in Latin. Illuminated manuscript on vellum, [France: probably Paris, c. 1240]. £10,000-15,000

Dominic Winter, Sep. 27: Book of Hours, in French with Latin cues. Illuminated manuscript on vellum [France, Normandy, early(?) 15th century]. £10,000-15,000.

Dominic Winter, Sep. 27: Book of Hours, Use of Rouen, in Latin and French. Illuminated manuscript on vellum, [France: Rouen, c. 1480]. £30,000-40,000

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers September 27 The Library of the Late Christopher Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey: Part One

Dominic Winter, Sep. 27: Mary I (1516-1558). Queen of England, 1553-1558. Letter signed, ‘Marye the Quene’, Greenwich, 7 January 1558. £15,000-20,000

Dominic Winter, Sep. 27: Jonson (Ben). Works, 1st collected edition, 3 volumes, 1640. £7,000-10,000

Dominic Winter, Sep. 27: Essex. A sammelband of 27 English Civil War pamphlets mostly relating to the siege of Colchester, Essex, 1648. £5,000-8,000

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers September 27 The Library of the Late Christopher Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey: Part One

Dominic Winter, Sep. 27: Latham (Simon). Latham’s Faulconry, or the Faulcons Lure and Cure, 2 parts in one, 1658/. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, Sep. 27: Exquemelin (Alexandre Olivier). The History of the Bucaniers of America, 2 volumes in 1, 2nd edition, 1695. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, Sep. 27: Campbell (Patrick). Travels in the interior inhabited parts of North America..., 1st ed., 1793. £5,000-8,000

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers September 27 The Library of the Late Christopher Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey: Part One

Dominic Winter, Sep. 27: Burton (Richard F.). Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah, 3 volumes, 1st edition, 1855-56. £5,000-8,000

Dominic Winter, Sep. 27: Cosway-style binding. Napoleon and the Fair Sex, 1894. One of 9 similar lots. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, Sep. 27: Shepard (Ernest Howard, 1879-1976). Pooh and Piglet, original pen and ink drawing, 1958. £20,000-30,000

Rare Book Monthly

Articles - April - 2012 Issue

To Helen Back

The world changes

These past ten years no name has so often crossed my lips,

The cheery solitude of certainty, she

And reality the darker hand maiden

Together have traversed the printed landscape

Kept me company, praised and caterwauled

Celebrated and despised, now mocking and sincere

Her agents long grown weary

Lamenting the cascade of details inconvenient

They that daily paint a picture clear and unsettling

A story built on facts that send baloney to the butcher

To be cut down or overlooked, the one worse than the other

Both unacceptable.

We are in a hard time

And if we were once hard people

Today we stand together or fall apart

The few who hold back I wish them the best

But know with certain stillness that resistance is for naught.

To those who hold out, slaves to the past,

Fearful of the future I offer you this toast

To Helen Back

Rare Book Monthly

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Ketterer Rare Books, Preview: H. Scherer, Atlas novus exhibens orbem terraqueum, 1702-10. Est: € 15,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Preview: L. de Varthema, Die Ritterlich und lobwirdig rayß, 1515. Est: € 60,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Preview: G. Heym, Umbra vitae, 1924. Est: € 8,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Preview:F. de Wit, Orbis maritimus ofte Zee Atlas, around 1680. Est: € 15,000
<center>Gonnelli: Auction 46 Books Autographs & Manuscripts Oct 3rd-5th 2023

Gonnelli: Tilson - Zanotto, Il vero tema. 2011. Starting price 150 €

Gonnelli: Munari, Storia di un filo. Starting price 400 €

Gonnelli: Debord, Contre le cinéma. 1964. Starting price 150 €

Gonnelli: Futurism books and ephemera

Gonnelli: Travel books

Gonnelli: Medicine books

Gonnelli: Levaillant, Histoire naturelle des perroquets. 1801-1805. Starting price 52.000 €

Gonnelli: Carrera, Il gioco de gli scacchi. 1617. Starting price 3200 €

Gonnelli: Vergilius, Opera. 1515. Starting price 800 €
<center>Sotheby's English Literature and History Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s, Available Now: William Shakespeare. A Midsummer-Night's Dream, 1908. 7,500 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë. Brontës' Novels, 1922. 2,400 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: Lewis Carroll. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872. 25,000 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: Charles Dickens. Collection of Fiction including Oliver Twist and Sketches by Boz, 1838-1865. 6,250 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: Mary Shelley. Frankenstein, 1839. 4,250 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: James Joyce. Ulysses, 1925. 2,500 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: Jane Austen. The Complete Works of Jane Austen, 1901. 5,250 USD
<center>Jeschke Jadi Auctions Berlin Rare Books, Prints, Historical Photography 29 September 2023

Jeschke Jádi, Sep. 29: Jan Theodor de Bry. Anthologia magna sive Florilegium novum. 1626. 9,000 €

Jeschke Jádi, Sep. 29: John Locke. Epistola de tolerantia ad Clarissimum Virum T.A.R.P.T.O.L.A. 1689. 9000 €

Jeschke Jádi, Sep. 29: F. T. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella, Carrà, a.o. Collection of 35 Futurist manifestos. 1909-1933. 7000 €

Jeschke Jádi, Sep. 29: Johann Elert Bode, Rare engraved celestial globe. (1804). 6000 €

Jeschke Jádi, Sep. 29: Sebastian Brant (ed.). Tertia pars huius operis in se continens glosam ordinariam cum expositione lyre litterali et morali. 1498. 5000 €
<center>Christie’s Charlie Watts: Literature and Jazz London and online auction 15–29 September

Christie’s, Explore now: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940). The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. £100,000–150,000

Christie’s, Explore now: Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930). The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, 1902. £70,000–100,000

Christie’s, Explore now: Agatha Christie (1890–1976). The Thirteen Problems. London: for the Crime Club Ltd. by W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1932. £40,000–60,000

Christie’s, Explore now: Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961). The Maltese Falcon. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. £30,000–50,000

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