• <b>Freeman’s | Hindman, Oct. 24:</b><br>A Superb Extra-illustrated Copy of Nicolay and Hay’s Work About Lincoln. $50,000 – 70,000. <b>Freeman’s | Hindman, Oct. 24:</b><br>The First Volume of De Bry's Great Voyages, Thomas Hariot's Description of Virginia. $50,000 – 70,000. <b>Freeman’s | Hindman, Oct. 24:</b><br>An autographed cabinet card of Custer as lieutenant colonel. From his last sitting. $800 – 1,200. <b>Freeman’s | Hindman, Oct. 24:</b><br>The Congressional Committee, Lincoln's Funeral Springfield Illinois, 3 May 1865. $4,000 – 6,000. <b>Freeman’s | Hindman, Oct. 25:</b><br>A remarkable ninth plate daguerreotype of an interracial couple. $30,000 – 50,000. <b>Freeman’s | Hindman, Oct. 25:</b><br>What may be the earliest known images of an identified plantation and enslaved African Americans posed with their owner. $20,000 – 30,000. <b>Freeman’s | Hindman, Oct. 25:</b><br><i>Through Tickets to All Principal Points West Via Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad For Sale at This Office.</i> $500 – 700. <b>Freeman’s | Hindman, Oct. 25:</b><br>15th New York Infantry / Regiment of Engineers GAR regimental colors. Ca 1880. $1,500 – 2,500.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, Oct. 24:
    A Superb Extra-illustrated Copy of Nicolay and Hay’s Work About Lincoln. $50,000 – 70,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, Oct. 24:
    The First Volume of De Bry's Great Voyages, Thomas Hariot's Description of Virginia. $50,000 – 70,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, Oct. 24:
    An autographed cabinet card of Custer as lieutenant colonel. From his last sitting. $800 – 1,200.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, Oct. 24:
    The Congressional Committee, Lincoln's Funeral Springfield Illinois, 3 May 1865. $4,000 – 6,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, Oct. 25:
    A remarkable ninth plate daguerreotype of an interracial couple. $30,000 – 50,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, Oct. 25:
    What may be the earliest known images of an identified plantation and enslaved African Americans posed with their owner. $20,000 – 30,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, Oct. 25:
    Through Tickets to All Principal Points West Via Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad For Sale at This Office. $500 – 700.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, Oct. 25:
    15th New York Infantry / Regiment of Engineers GAR regimental colors. Ca 1880. $1,500 – 2,500.
  • <b><center>Jeschke Jádi<br>Auction 153<br>Friday October 25 and Saturday October 26, 2024</center></b> <b>Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 25-26:</b> Lot 1556. Senghor, Les Élégies Majeures. Geneve 1978. <b>Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 25-26:</b> Lot 1572. Lew Tolstoy. Anna Karenina. First Edition, Moscow, 1878. <b>Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 25-26:</b> Lot 49. Petrarca. Das Gluecksbuch, Augsburg, 1536. <b><center>Jeschke Jádi<br>Auction 153<br>Friday October 25 and Saturday October 26, 2024</center></b> <b>Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 25-26:</b> Lot 1060. Immanuel Kant, Critik der reinen Vernunft. First Edition, Riga, 1781. <b>Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 25-26:</b> Lot 585. Bonaparte, Iconografia della fauna Italica. Rome, 1832f. <b>Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 25-26:</b> Lot 548. Robert Fludd. Utriusque cosmi maioris, Frankfurt, 1617f. <b><center>Jeschke Jádi<br>Auction 153<br>Friday October 25 and Saturday October 26, 2024</center></b> <b>Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 25-26:</b> Lot 1496. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956. <b>Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 25-26:</b> Lot 571. Christian von Wolff. Works, Halle 1741f. <b>Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 25-26:</b> Lot 969. Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Dekorationen innerer Raeume. Berlin 1874. <b><center>Jeschke Jádi<br>Auction 153<br>Friday October 25 and Saturday October 26, 2024</center></b> <b>Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 25-26:</b> Lot 1457. Goethe. Das Tagebuch. Print on Vellum. Berlin, Officina Serpentis. 1934. <b>Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 25-26:</b> Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948. <b>Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 25-26:</b> Lot 30. Michael de Hungaria. Sermones praedicabiles, Strasbourg, 1494.
    Jeschke Jádi
    Auction 153
    Friday October 25 and Saturday October 26, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 25-26: Lot 1556. Senghor, Les Élégies Majeures. Geneve 1978.
    Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 25-26: Lot 1572. Lew Tolstoy. Anna Karenina. First Edition, Moscow, 1878.
    Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 25-26: Lot 49. Petrarca. Das Gluecksbuch, Augsburg, 1536.
    Jeschke Jádi
    Auction 153
    Friday October 25 and Saturday October 26, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 25-26: Lot 1060. Immanuel Kant, Critik der reinen Vernunft. First Edition, Riga, 1781.
    Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 25-26: Lot 585. Bonaparte, Iconografia della fauna Italica. Rome, 1832f.
    Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 25-26: Lot 548. Robert Fludd. Utriusque cosmi maioris, Frankfurt, 1617f.
    Jeschke Jádi
    Auction 153
    Friday October 25 and Saturday October 26, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 25-26: Lot 1496. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 25-26: Lot 571. Christian von Wolff. Works, Halle 1741f.
    Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 25-26: Lot 969. Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Dekorationen innerer Raeume. Berlin 1874.
    Jeschke Jádi
    Auction 153
    Friday October 25 and Saturday October 26, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 25-26: Lot 1457. Goethe. Das Tagebuch. Print on Vellum. Berlin, Officina Serpentis. 1934.
    Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 25-26: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Oct. 25-26: Lot 30. Michael de Hungaria. Sermones praedicabiles, Strasbourg, 1494.
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  • <b><center>Sotheby’s<br>Bibliothèque de Pierre Bergé : le dernier chapiter<br>28 October 2024</center></b> <b>Sotheby’s, 28 Oct:</b> Gide, André. Les Cahiers d'André Walter, 1891 <b>Sotheby’s, 28 Oct:</b> Flaubert, Gustave. <i>Salammbô.</i> Paris, Michel Lévy frères, 1863. Édition originale <b>Sotheby’s, 28 Oct:</b> Scève, Maurice. <i>Microcosme.</i> Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1562. Maroquin vert de Lortic fils. Rarissime édition originale. <b>Sotheby’s, 28 Oct:</b> Whitman, Walt. <i>Leaves of Grass.</i> Brooklyn, 1855. Édition originale, imprimée par Whitman lui-même et reliée sur ses instructions. Avec un exemplaire de "Calamus", Boston, 1897 <b><center>Sotheby’s<br>Bibliothèque de Pierre Bergé : le dernier chapiter<br>28 October 2024</center></b> <b>Sotheby’s, 28 Oct:</b> García Lorca, Federico. <i>Poema del cante jondo.</i> Madrid, 1931. Édition originale. Exemplaire offert par Lorca au journaliste basque Pedro Mourlane Michelena <b>Sotheby’s, 28 Oct:</b> Ronsard, Pierre de. <i>Les Amours.</i> 1553. [Suivi de:] <i>Continuation des amours.</i> 1557. In-8. Vélin. Troisième édition des Amours et deuxième édition de la Continuation <b>Sotheby’s, 28 Oct:</b> Vivaldi, Antonio. <i>L’Estro Armonico...</i> Amsterdam [1712]. Édition originale. Rares partitions de 12 concertos, gravées sur cuivre
    Sotheby’s
    Bibliothèque de Pierre Bergé : le dernier chapiter
    28 October 2024
    Sotheby’s, 28 Oct: Gide, André. Les Cahiers d'André Walter, 1891
    Sotheby’s, 28 Oct: Flaubert, Gustave. Salammbô. Paris, Michel Lévy frères, 1863. Édition originale
    Sotheby’s, 28 Oct: Scève, Maurice. Microcosme. Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1562. Maroquin vert de Lortic fils. Rarissime édition originale.
    Sotheby’s, 28 Oct: Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, 1855. Édition originale, imprimée par Whitman lui-même et reliée sur ses instructions. Avec un exemplaire de "Calamus", Boston, 1897
    Sotheby’s
    Bibliothèque de Pierre Bergé : le dernier chapiter
    28 October 2024
    Sotheby’s, 28 Oct: García Lorca, Federico. Poema del cante jondo. Madrid, 1931. Édition originale. Exemplaire offert par Lorca au journaliste basque Pedro Mourlane Michelena
    Sotheby’s, 28 Oct: Ronsard, Pierre de. Les Amours. 1553. [Suivi de:] Continuation des amours. 1557. In-8. Vélin. Troisième édition des Amours et deuxième édition de la Continuation
    Sotheby’s, 28 Oct: Vivaldi, Antonio. L’Estro Armonico... Amsterdam [1712]. Édition originale. Rares partitions de 12 concertos, gravées sur cuivre

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Old Books / New Editions. Part III of III. New Work on Margaret Cavendish’s "The Blazing World" (1666; 2016)

- by Maureen E. Mulvihill, Guest Writer

Welcome to this third and final installment in my Guest Series on new editions of 17th-century women writers. This last essay discusses an extraordinary figure whose writings are a rich weave of interests, from feminism, politics, and education, to astronomy, astrology, and cosmography. This is none other than the remarkable Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (c1623-1673), a writer of many qualities who took English literature to a whole new level. She owned a telescope. She collected optical lenses. She designed her own haut coutoure. Her visit to the new London Royal Society in 1667 was a sensation. Confident in her abilities and certain of “a glorious Fame”, she published under her own name and her record of publication (plays, poetry, essays, letters, prose fiction, autobiography) was substantial. She described her manuscripts as “paper Bodies”, living things creating “a great Blazing Light” after her death. (An expanding cohort of advocates would say: Yea, she was right!) Her masterpiece and signature work is an astonishing futuristic text, The Blazing-World (London, 1666, 1668), considered the first-ever science fiction novel written and published by a woman writer. It is now available in a new edition for 21st-century readers, prepared by Sara H. Mendelson, a respected scholar on Cavendish and a former president of the Margaret Cavendish Society. Fasten your seatbelts, Duchess Margaret will take you right out of this world. < Click here for essay > 

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  • <b>Bonhams, now to Oct. 24:</b> CATESBY, MARK. 1683-1749. <i>The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands.</i> $100,000 - $150,000 <b>Bonhams, now to Oct. 24:</b> AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. 1785-1851. <i>The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories.</i> $30,000 - $50,000 <b>Bonhams, now to Oct. 24:</b> ADAMS ON HIS PEAR TREES AND A LOST PORTRAIT BY SALEM ARTIST HANNAH CROWNINSHIELD. ADAMS, JOHN. 1735-1826. $10,000 - $15,000 <b>Bonhams, now to Oct. 24:</b> EARLIEST MAP DEVOTED TO NORTH AMERICA. FORLANI, PAULO. fl.1560-1571. $20,000 - $30,000 <b>Bonhams, now to Oct. 24:</b> HAMILTON DEFENDS THE CONSTITUTION. HAMILTON, ALEXANDER. 1757-1804. $20,000 - $30,000 <b>Bonhams, now to Oct. 24:</b> NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION BROADSIDE. Boston, September 14, 1768. $5,000 - $8,000 <b>Bonhams, now to Oct. 23:</b> ONE OF THE EARLIEST ILLUSTRATIONS OF A SURGICAL PROCEDURE. BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS. $10,000 - $15,000 <b>Bonhams, now to Oct. 23:</b> RICHARD FEYNMAN'S ANNOTATED COPY, WITH TWO EARLY FEYNMAN AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS. $15,000 - $25,000 <b>Bonhams, now to Oct. 23:</b> THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN COMPUTING. TURING, ALAN MATHISON. 1912-1954. $30,000 - $50,000 <b>Bonhams, now to Oct. 23:</b> FINE OIL PORTRAIT OF ALBERT EINSTEIN BY EUGEN SPIRO. $40,000 - $60,000 <b>Bonhams, now to Oct. 23:</b> PENICILLIN MOLD MEDALLION INSCRIBED BY ALEXANDER FLEMING. FLEMING, ALEXANDER. 1881-1955. $30,000 - $50,000 <b>Bonhams, now to Oct. 23:</b> APPLE "TWIGGY" MACINTOSH PROTOTYPE USED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF DEMONSTRATION SOFTWARE. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: CATESBY, MARK. 1683-1749. The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands. $100,000 - $150,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. 1785-1851. The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: ADAMS ON HIS PEAR TREES AND A LOST PORTRAIT BY SALEM ARTIST HANNAH CROWNINSHIELD. ADAMS, JOHN. 1735-1826. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: EARLIEST MAP DEVOTED TO NORTH AMERICA. FORLANI, PAULO. fl.1560-1571. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: HAMILTON DEFENDS THE CONSTITUTION. HAMILTON, ALEXANDER. 1757-1804. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION BROADSIDE. Boston, September 14, 1768. $5,000 - $8,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: ONE OF THE EARLIEST ILLUSTRATIONS OF A SURGICAL PROCEDURE. BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: RICHARD FEYNMAN'S ANNOTATED COPY, WITH TWO EARLY FEYNMAN AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS. $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN COMPUTING. TURING, ALAN MATHISON. 1912-1954. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: FINE OIL PORTRAIT OF ALBERT EINSTEIN BY EUGEN SPIRO. $40,000 - $60,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: PENICILLIN MOLD MEDALLION INSCRIBED BY ALEXANDER FLEMING. FLEMING, ALEXANDER. 1881-1955. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: APPLE "TWIGGY" MACINTOSH PROTOTYPE USED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF DEMONSTRATION SOFTWARE. $80,000 - $120,000
  • <b>Swann, Oct. 24:</b> Lot 31: William Shakespeare, <i>Second Folio,</i> 1632. $120,000 to $180,000. <b>Swann, Oct. 24:</b> Lot 175: Agostino Nifo’s <i>De Regnandi Peritia ad Carolum VI,</i> 1523. $25,000 to $35,000. <b>Swann, Oct. 24:</b> Lot 263: Johannes Hevelius, <i>Selenographia: Sive,</i> 1647. $15,000 to $20,000. <b>Swann, Oct. 24:</b> Lot 32: William Shakespeare, <i>Poems,</i> 1640. $15,000 to $20,000. <b>Swann, Oct. 24:</b> Lot 230: Ernest Hemingway, <i>in our time,</i> Limited First Edition; One of 170 Copies Printed, Paris: Three Mountains Press, 1924. $20,000 to $30,000. <b>Swann, Oct. 24:</b> Lot 43: Amadis de Gaule Story Cycle, Various Authors, <i>El Octavo Libro and El Noveno Libro,</i> 1526 and 1542. $8,000 to $12,000. <b>Swann, Oct. 24:</b> Lot 25: John Milton, <i>Poems of Mr. John Milton,</i> 1645. $7,000 to $9,000. <b>Swann, Oct. 24:</b> Lot 259: William Griffith Wilson, <i>Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More than One Hundred Men Have Recovered,</i> 1939. $15,000 to $20,000. <b>Swann, Oct. 24:</b> Lot 242: Harper Lee, <i>To Kill a Mockingbird,</i> 1960. $10,000 to $15,000. <b>Swann, Oct. 24:</b> Lot 69: Miguel de Cervantes, <i>Don Quixote in Spanish, Ibarra's Academy Edition,</i> 1780. $6,000 to $8,000. <b>Swann, Oct. 24:</b> Lot 9: Elizabeth I, Queen of England, <i>The Historie of Guicciardin,</i> 1599. $6,000 to $9,000. <b>Swann, Oct. 24:</b> Lor 103: Francisco Lopez de Ubeda, <i>Libro de Entrentenimiento de la Picara Justina,</i> 1605. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Swann, Oct. 24: Lot 31: William Shakespeare, Second Folio, 1632. $120,000 to $180,000.
    Swann, Oct. 24: Lot 175: Agostino Nifo’s De Regnandi Peritia ad Carolum VI, 1523. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Swann, Oct. 24: Lot 263: Johannes Hevelius, Selenographia: Sive, 1647. $15,000 to $20,000.
    Swann, Oct. 24: Lot 32: William Shakespeare, Poems, 1640. $15,000 to $20,000.
    Swann, Oct. 24: Lot 230: Ernest Hemingway, in our time, Limited First Edition; One of 170 Copies Printed, Paris: Three Mountains Press, 1924. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, Oct. 24: Lot 43: Amadis de Gaule Story Cycle, Various Authors, El Octavo Libro and El Noveno Libro, 1526 and 1542. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Swann, Oct. 24: Lot 25: John Milton, Poems of Mr. John Milton, 1645. $7,000 to $9,000.
    Swann, Oct. 24: Lot 259: William Griffith Wilson, Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More than One Hundred Men Have Recovered, 1939. $15,000 to $20,000.
    Swann, Oct. 24: Lot 242: Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Swann, Oct. 24: Lot 69: Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote in Spanish, Ibarra's Academy Edition, 1780. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Swann, Oct. 24: Lot 9: Elizabeth I, Queen of England, The Historie of Guicciardin, 1599. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Swann, Oct. 24: Lor 103: Francisco Lopez de Ubeda, Libro de Entrentenimiento de la Picara Justina, 1605. $6,000 to $8,000.

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