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Sotheby's
Bibliothèque Jacques Dauchez - Autour de Dubuffet
5-19 JuneSotheby’s, June 5-19: Bissière, Roger. Cantique à notre frère soleil de saint François. 1954. 1,000 - 1,500 EURSotheby’s, June 5-19: Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. La vie & l’œuvre de Philippe Ignace Semmelweis. 1924. Rare édition originale, avec envoi. Joint : La Quinine en thérapeutique, 1925. 4,000 - 6,000 EURSotheby’s, June 5-19: Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. Mort à crédit. 1936. Édition originale. Bel exemplaire sur Hollande. 2,500 - 3,500 EURSotheby's
Bibliothèque Jacques Dauchez - Autour de Dubuffet
5-19 JuneSotheby’s, June 5-19: Chillida, Eduardo ─ Emil Cioran. Face aux instants. 1985. Un des 100 exemplaires sur Arches. Eau-forte signée. 600 - 800 EURSotheby’s, June 5-19: Dubuffet, Jean. Ler dla canpane. L’Art Brut, 1948. Édition originale. 3,000 - 5,000 EURSotheby’s, June 5-19: Dubuffet, Jean. L'Herne Jean Dubuffet. 1973. Un des 100 exemplaires du tirage de luxe avec une sérigraphie originale en couleurs. 1,000 - 1,500 EUR -
Finarte
Books, Autographs & Prints
June 24 & 25, 2025Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE / LANDINO, CRISTOFORO. Comento di Christophoro Landino Fiorentino sopra la Comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta fiorentino, 1481. €40,000 to €50,000.Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. La Commedia [Commento di Christophorus Landinus]. Aggiunta: Marsilius Ficinus, Ad Dantem gratulatio [in latino e Italiano], 1487. €40,000 to €60,000.Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. Il Convivio, 1490. €20,000 to €25,000.Finarte
Books, Autographs & Prints
June 24 & 25, 2025Finarte, June 24-25: BANDELLO, MATTEO. La prima [-quarta] parte de le nouelle del Bandello, 1554. €7,000 to €9,000.Finarte, June 24-25: LEGATURA – PLUTARCO. Le vies des hommes illustres, grecs et romaines translates, 1567. €10,000 to €12,000.Finarte, June 24-25: TOLOMEO, CLAUDIO. Ptolemeo La Geografia di Claudio Ptolemeo Alessandrino, Con alcuni comenti…, 1548. €4,000 to €6,000.Finarte
Books, Autographs & Prints
June 24 & 25, 2025Finarte, June 24-25: FESTE - COPPOLA, GIOVANNI CARLO. Le nozze degli Dei, favola [...] rappresentata in musica in Firenze…, 1637. €6,000 to €8,000.Finarte, June 24-25: SPINOZA, BARUCH. Opera posthuma, 1677. €8,000 to €12,000.Finarte, June 24-25: PUSHKIN, ALEXANDER. Borus Godunov, 1831. €30,000 to €50,000.Finarte
Books, Autographs & Prints
June 24 & 25, 2025Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - LECUIRE, PIERRE. Ballets-minute, 1954. €35,000 to €40,000.Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - MAJAKOVSKIJ, VLADIMIR / LISSITZKY, LAZAR MARKOVICH. Dlia Golosa, 1923. €7,000 to €10,000.Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - MATISSE, HENRI / MONTHERLANT, HENRY DE. Pasiphaé. Chant de Minos., 1944. €22,000 to €24,000. -
Rose City Book & Paper Fair
June 14-15, 2025
1000 NE Multnomah, Portland
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Swann, June 17: Lot 13: Arthur Rackham, Candlelight, pen and ink, circa 1900.Swann, June 17: Lot 28: Harold Von Schmidt, "I Asked Jim If He Wanted To Accompany Us To Teach The Hanneseys A Lesson.", oil on canvas, 1957.Swann, June 17: Lot 96: Arthur Szyk, Thumbelina, gouache and pencil, 1945.Swann, June 17: Lot 101: D.R. Sexton, The White Rabbit And Bill The Lizard, watercolor and gouache, 1932.Swann, June 17: Lot 127: Miguel Covarrubias, Bradypus Tridactilus. Three-Toed Sloth, gouache, circa 1953.Swann, June 17: Lot 132: William Pène Du Bois, 2 Illustrations: Balloon Merry Go Round On The Ground And In The Air, pen and ink and wash, 1947.Swann, June 17: Lot 137: Lee Lorenz, Confetti Hourglass, mixed media, 1973.Swann, June 17: Lot 181: Norman Rockwell, Portrait Of Floyd Jerome Patten (Editor At Boy's Life Magazine), charcoal, circa 1915.Swann, June 17: Lot 188: Ludwig Bemelmans, Rue De Buci, Paris, casein, watercolor, ink and gouache, 1955.Swann, June 17: Lot 263: Maurice Sendak, Sundance Childrens Theater Poster Preliminary Sketch, pencil, 1988.
Rare Book Monthly
Articles - December - 2009 Issue
Are You Missing These Books?
By Michael Stillman
Are you missing some valuable Civil War books? If so, New York City police would like to speak to you. In a twist on the normal book theft case, this is the story of some found books, rather than missing ones. The problem is, police do not know from whom they were stolen. They do not show up in the ABAA or other registries of missing books.
On November 14, officers from New York's Document Fraud Squad conducted a search of the Brooklyn home of Mary Kolompar. The 64-year-old Mrs. Kolompar was suspected of welfare fraud and document counterfeiting. However, in their search, police came across eleven Civil War books in excellent condition. Perhaps you or I would have assumed Ms. Kolompar was a Civil War book collector, but police are a suspicious lot. They assumed the heavily accented Romanian immigrant was a thief.
It was not so much her ethnic background as a her rap sheet that made police suspicious that Ms. Kolompar was not really an American Civil War book collector. Mary Kolompar has a rap sheet longer than War and Peace, dating back to 1978. She has been arrested in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Florida... at least. It's hard to be sure as she has used various aliases, including Mary Shero, Maria Kolompar, Mary Kolomar, Zofia Wloch and Susan Brown. That's only the start, as she has used at least 25 aliases at various times. Her birth date has also been unclear, her having used at least 10 of these. She has generally worked small-time crimes with a group of associates, including her son. Fraudulently gaining entry into the homes of elderly people to rob them is typical of the types of offenses for which she has been arrested. At the time of this search, she and two of her associates were already out on bond from Pennsylvania for possession of instruments of crime with the intention to use them. Obviously Ms. Kolompar not only knows how to steal, but equally well how to work the U.S. justice system. One can only wonder how and why someone with her record is out on the street.
Now, here is the list of books New York City police found:
South-Side View of Slavery by Nehemiah Adams. 1855.
The Church and Slavery by Albert Barnes. 1857.
The Public Life of Captain John Brown by James Redpath. 1860.
The Impending Crisis of the South by Hinton Rowan Helper. 1860.
The Cotton Kingdom by Frederick Law Olmstead (two volumes). 1861.
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (two volumes). 1862.
Infantry Tactics by Silas Casey. 1862.
Officers of our Union Army and Navy by Dean Dudley. 1862.
Rifle and Infantry Tactics by William J. Hardee. 1863.
Police have valued the collection at around $20,000. If you are missing these books, or know someone who is, you should contact Detective Michael McFadden of the New York Police Department at 212-923-1188 or michael.mcfadden@nypd.org. If you own these books, live somewhere between Florida and New England, and haven't checked on them lately, we suggest you look now. Police have no idea where or when Ms. Kolompar came into possession of them. She isn't talking.