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<b><center>Sotheby's<br>The Joanne Woodward & Paul Newman Collection<br>26 May - 12 June</b><b>Sotheby’s, May 26 – Jun. 12:</b> "Cool Hand Luke" | Paul Newman Academy Award® Nomination Plaque. USD$2500 - $3500<b>Sotheby’s, May 26 – Jun. 12:</b> "Hud" | Bound presentation script incorporating photographic stills. USD$1000 - $1500<b>Sotheby’s, May 26 – Jun. 12:</b> "The Long, Hot Summer" | Movie Poster. USD$1000 - $1500<b>Sotheby’s, May 26 – Jun. 12:</b> Joseph Heller | "Catch-22," inscribed to Woodward & Newman by author. USD$500 - $800<b><center>Sotheby's<br>The Joanne Woodward & Paul Newman Collection<br>26 May - 12 June</b><b>Sotheby’s, May 26 – Jun. 12:</b> George H. W. Bush | Typed Letter Signed, Issuing a "Pardon" to Paul Newman. USD$1500 - $2000<b>Sotheby’s, May 26 – Jun. 12:</b> William Jefferson Clinton | Inscribed Color Photograph. USD$1000 - $1500<b>Sotheby’s, May 26 – Jun. 12:</b> Ken Kesey | Typed letter to “Paulnewman,” asking for further compensation for "Sometimes a Great Notion". USD$1000 - $1500<b>Sotheby’s, May 26 – Jun. 12:</b> "They Might Be Giants" | Costume sketches by Edith Head. USD$1000 - $2000
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<b><center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers<br>June 14/15<br>Printed Books, Maps, Playing Cards & Games, English Literature, Private Press & Illustrated Books</b><b>Dominic Winter, June 14/15:</b> Chinese School. Album of Chinese rice paper paintings of St Helena and Napoleon, circa 1830s/1840s. £700 to £1,000.<b>Dominic Winter, June 14/15:</b> Speed (John).<i> The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine...,</i> 1676. £3,000 to £5,000.<b>Dominic Winter, June 14/15:</b> Laroon (Marcellus). <i>The Cryes of the City of London drawne after the Life,</i> 1st edition, 1688. £1,000 to £1,500.<b><center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers<br>June 14/15<br>Printed Books, Maps, Playing Cards & Games, English Literature, Private Press & Illustrated Books</b><b>Dominic Winter, June 14/15:</b> Thomas Sedgley binding. <i>The Holy Bible,</i> London, 1701, large folio. £2,000 to £3,000.<b>Dominic Winter, June 14/15:</b> Kipling (Rudyard). The Sussex Edition of the <i>Complete Works in Prose and Verse,</i> 1937-1939. £5,000 to £8,000.<b>Dominic Winter, June 14/15:</b> Dodgson (Charles). <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,</i> 1886, presentation copy. £500 to £800.<b><center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers<br>June 14/15<br>Printed Books, Maps, Playing Cards & Games, English Literature, Private Press & Illustrated Books</b><b>Dominic Winter, June 14/15:</b> German tarot cards. Napoleon tarock, Leipzig: Johann Gottfried Herbert, circa 1808. £1,500 to £2,000.<b>Dominic Winter, June 14/15:</b> Milne (A.A.). <i>The House at Pooh Corner,</i> 1928, inscribed limited deluxe edition of 20. £15,000 to £20,000.<b>Dominic Winter, June 14/15:</b> Peter Pan. A unique 13.5m (44ft) long needlework nursery frieze, by Helen Stebbing M.R.S.T., 1936. £7,000 to £10,000.<b><center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers<br>June 14/15<br>Printed Books, Maps, Playing Cards & Games, English Literature, Private Press & Illustrated Books</b><b>Dominic Winter, June 14/15:</b> Peak (Bob, 1928-1992). <i>U.S.A,</i> a mural produced for Trans World Airlines (TWA), 1971. £200 to £400.<b>Dominic Winter, June 14/15:</b> Austen (Jane). <i>Pride and Prejudice: a novel,</i> 3 volumes, 2nd edition, London: T. Egerton, 1813. £8,000 to £12,000.<b>Dominic Winter, June 14/15:</b> Hughes (Ted). Crow, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1970, signed presentation copy. £400 to £600.
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<b><center>Swann Auction Galleries<br>Fine Books, Autographs & Illustration Art:<br>At Auction June 15, 2023</b><b>Swann June 15:</b> J.R.R. Tolkien, <i>The Lord of the Rings</i> trilogy, first American editions, finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery, Boston, 1954-56. $9,000 to $12,000.<b>Swann June 15:</b> John Carleton Atherton, <i>Fall Bounty,</i> oil on board, cover design for The Saturday Evening Post, 1943. $10,000 to $15,000.<b>Swann June 15:</b> George Washington, Endorsement Signed, “G:Washington,’ as President of the Potomac Company, 1787.<b>Swann June 15:</b> Gustav Klimt, <i>Das Werk von Gustav Klimt,</i> complete with 50 collotype plates, one of 300 copies, Vienna, 1918. $25,000 to $35,000.<b>Swann June 15:</b> Pancho Villa, Autograph Letter Signed, to the governor of Chihuahua soliciting help in persuading authorities to release him from prison, Mexico City, 1912. $7,000 to $10,000.<b>Swann June 15:</b> Charles Monroe Schulz, <i>The Peanuts gang,</i> Complete set of 13 drawings, 1971. $8,000 to $12,000.
Rare Book Monthly
Book Catalogue Reviews - August - 2010 Issue
Antiquarian Books from Librairie Thomas-Scheler
By Michael Stillman
Librairie Thomas-Scheler has issued its 41st catalogue of Livres Ancien, or Antiquarian Books. This catalogue is written in French, and most books are also in the French language, though there are a good number of titles in Latin as well. Many of these books are quite old. Subjects are varied, ranging from travel to science, mathematics, medicine, literature, politics, and whatever else was on people's minds a few centuries ago. Here are some of these works.
Item 30 is a first edition account of one of the most important of French voyages, the first to make it around the world: Voyage autour du mond, par la fregate du Roi La Boudeuse... by the explorer Louis de Bougainville. Bougainville established a French colony on the Falkland Islands (only to have France cede them to Spain in the interests of maintaining peace). Heading further west, he discovered some Pacific islands, and thought he discovered Tahiti, only to find someone else had beaten him there. However, Bougainville's description of Tahiti as some sort of island paradise remains a part of the island's image to this day. If Bougainville himself is not that well known outside of France today, his name is more familiar. His botanist named a plant he discovered in South America for his captain - the bougainvillea. Published in 1771. Priced at €6,000 (euros, or about $7,736 in U.S. dollars).
Item 4 is the 1751 French edition (following the 1748 first in English) of another voyage around the world, that of George Anson. Anson was not a true explorer like Bougainville, and probably a lot less popular with his men, though he came home to England a hero in 1744. He was the captain sent out with five ships to harass the Spanish in South America. He lost all but one of his ships, and most of his men died, but his capture of a Spanish ship laden with treasure near the end of his voyage enabled him to return home a wealthy man. The book is entitled Voyage autour du monde, fait dans les annees MDCCXL... This book comes with the account of some of his men who made a daring escape of a shipwreck of one of Anson's ships, along with an arduous journey to eventual rescue: Voyage a la Mer du Sud... published in 1756. €6,500 (US $8,388).
If you think a trip to the dentist is scary today, what must it have been like two centuries ago? Here is the answer: L'art du dentiste ou Manuel des operations de chirurgie... This is an 1802 treatise by Louis Laforgue on the art of dentistry, including dental surgery. Dental surgery in the era of crude instruments and no novocaine or antibiotics is just one reason not to want to return to Napoleonic times. Item 136. €1,200 (US $1,552).
We don't know what language his dogs spoke, but item 201 is the first French edition of Le travail des glandes digestives, or the work of the digestive glands, by the great Russian scientist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov. Pavlov's dogs were the ones whose digestive juices began flowing at the ringing of a bell, after they learned that the bell signified dinnertime. The work described in this book earned its author the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1904. €1,000 (US $1,295).
Leonhard Euler was a prominent Swiss mathematician and physicist of the 18th century, often regarded as the greatest mathematician of his time. He wrote an enormous amount of material most of us couldn't possibly understand. However, he did publish a book that was designed to help the layman understand complex concepts. It's called Lettres a une Princesse d'Allemagne, sur divers sujets de Physique et Philiosophie. The title translates to Letters to a German Princess. Frederick the Great had asked Euler to teach his niece, the Princess of Anhalt-Dessau, some basic science. He wrote her a series of letters which could be called the Popular Science of the day. In it he explains such diverse topics as why the moon looks larger on the horizon, the sky is blue, and why the tops of mountains are cold. His letters were published in book form, a book very popular in its day. This French edition was published in 1812. €850 (US $1,100).
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