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Articles - February - 2013 Issue

Seven New Catalogues Up for Review

- by Michael Stillman

New catalogues under review.

This month we review seven new bookseller catalogues. The William Reese Company offers a selection of Western Americana. Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books presents material related to the Dutch East Indies. Anywhere in between can be represented by Voyager Books' selection of travel manuscripts and photography.

Aleph-Bet Books has a new collection of children's books. The Lawbook Exchange, naturally enough, features legal books, some serious, others sensational. Antiquates Fine and Rare Books offers antiquarian works, while Joe Rubinfine has a new collection of American historical documents.

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Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15: Frances Palmer, Battle of Buena Vista, chromolithograph, New York, 1847. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15: Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma, the earliest publication concerned solely with chocolate, first edition, Madrid, 1631. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15: Romans Bernard, An Exact View of the Late Battle at Charlestown, June 17th, 1775, engraving, 1776. $40,000 to $60,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15: A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston, English edition, London, 1770. $12,000 to $18,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15: William Soule, Lodge of the Plains Indians, albumen print, 1872. $1,500 to $2,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15: Manuscript document to enforce New York’s “Agreement of Non-Importation” during the heyday of the Sons of Liberty, New York, 1769. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15: Clarence Mackenzie, Drummer Boy of the 13th Regiment of Brooklyn, salt print with applied color, 1861. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15: Moses Lopez, A Lunar Calendar, first Jewish calendar published in America, Newport, RI, 1806. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15: The Book of Mormon, first edition, Palmyra, 1830. $30,000 to $40,000.
<center>Neal Auction Company Spring Estates 2021 April 16-18

Neal Auction Co., Apr. 16: Lyscosthenes, Conrad. Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon, Basilea: Henricus Petrus, c. 1557, first edition, folio. $5,000 to $7,000.

Neal Auction Co., Apr. 16: Collection of Ethiopic Religious Texts, in Ge'ez , illuminated manuscripts on vellum, c. 1700-20th c. (5 pcs.) $5,000 to $7,000.

Neal Auction Co., Apr. 16: Augustinus, Aurelius Sanctus. De Civitate Dei, Venice: Bonetus Locatellus per Octavianus Scotus, 9 Febbraio, 1486, 4to. $5,000 to $7,000.

<center>Neal Auction Company Spring Estates 2021 April 16-18

Neal Auction Co., Apr. 16: Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie Gabriel Comte de. Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, Paris, J.J. Blaise, 1782-1809-1822, first edition. $4,000 to $6,000.

Neal Auction Co., Apr. 16: Rufinus, Tyrannius (c. 345-411). Expositio in symbolum apostolorum, [Cologne, Ulrich Zel, c. 1472], first edition. $3,000 to $5,000.

Neal Auction Co., Apr. 16: Magnus, Albertus. Summa de eucharistiae sacramento, Ulm: Johann Zainer, 1474. $3,000 to $5,000.

<center>Neal Auction Company Spring Estates 2021 April 16-18

Neal Auction Co., Apr. 16: Strabo. Rerum geographicarum libri septemdecim. A Guilielmo Xylandro Augstano magna cura recogniti…, Basel, Henricpetri, (August 1571). $3,000 to $5,000.

Neal Auction Co., Apr. 16: Riou, Stephen (1720-1780). The Grecian Orders of Architecture. Delineated and Explained from the Antiquities of Athens, London, 1768. $3,000 to $5,000.

Neal Auction Co., Apr. 16: Mair, Paul Hektor. Geschlechter Buch...der...Statt Augspurg, Frankfurt am Maim, Sigmund Feyerabend, 1580. $1,800 to $2,500.

<center>Neal Auction Company Spring Estates 2021 April 16-18

Neal Auction Co., Apr. 16: Polybius (c. 200-118 B.C.). Historiarum libri priores quinque, Basel: Johann Herwagen, 1549. $1,200 to $1,800.

Neal Auction Co., Apr. 16: Bellori, Giovanni Pietro. Columna Antoniniana Marci Aurelii Antonini Augusti rebus gestis insignis Germanis simul..., Rome, [1672]. $1,000 to $1,500.

Neal Auction Co., Apr. 16: Ecclesiasticae Historiae, Eusebii Pamphili...Eiusdem de vita Constantini...Socratis..., Paris, Robert Estienne, 1544. $800 to $1,200.
<center>Gonnelli Auction House Books and Graphics 19th, 20th and 21st April 2021

<center>Gonnelli: Apr. 19-21 Books from XVI to XX Century

<center>Gonnelli: Apr. 20 Atlases and Maps<center>Gonnelli: Apr. 21 Veneto and Venice, a Selection of Books from the XVI to XX century

<center>Gonnelli: Apr. 20 Rossini Gioachino, Baguette de chef d'orchestre appartenuta a Gioachino Rossini, dono del Comune di Passy. 1500 €

<center>Gonnelli: Apr. 21 Manetti Saverio, Storia naturale degli uccelli trattata con metodo. Cinque volumi. 1767. 18.000 €

<center>Gonnelli: Apr. 21 Poe Edgar Allan, Double assassinat dans la rue morgue. Illustrations de Cura. 1946.

<center>Gonnelli: Apr. 19-21 Books from XVI to XX Century
<center>Sotheby’s The Passion of American Collectors: Property of Barbara and Ira Lipman Highly Important Printed and Manuscript Americana April 13, 2021

Sotheby’s, Apr. 13: The first book-form printing of the Declaration of Independence. $250,000 to $350,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 13: (Paine, Thomas) The American Crisis. Number I. "These are the times that try men's souls." $70,000 to $100,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 13: First printing of the Treaty of Paris, with distinguished contemporary provenance. $60,000 to $80,000.

<center>Sotheby’s The Passion of American Collectors: Property of Barbara and Ira Lipman Highly Important Printed and Manuscript Americana April 13, 2021

Sotheby’s, Apr. 13: Washington, George. Letter signed as first President-Elect. Washington prepares to embark "again on the ocean of publick affairs." $100,000 to $150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 13: (Hamilton, Alexander). Manuscript document. The launch of one of the most consequential careers in American public life. $180,000 to $250,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 13: (Lexington & Concord). A Bloody Butchery, by the British Troops… $70,000 to $100,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 13: (Yorktown Campaign—Jean-Nicolas Desandrouins). A Yorktown Campaign map from the personal archive of the Comte de Rochambeau. $200,000 to $300,000.

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