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Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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![<b>Swann, Nov. 25:</b> Cunard [Slavonia] / New York Mediterranean. Circa 1905. $3,000 to $4,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/4a5b5e65-4194-475f-9e08-b3fbbd8ece29.png "<b>Swann, Nov. 25:</b> Cunard [Slavonia] / New York Mediterranean. Circa 1905. $3,000 to $4,000.")
Swann
Rare & Important Travel Posters
November 25, 2025Swann, Nov. 25: James Northfield. Australia / Koala. 1931. $800 to $1,200.Swann, Nov. 25: Mitsuharu Horiuchi. The North China Railway Co. Circa 1939. $3,000 to $4,000.Swann, Nov. 25: Cunard [Slavonia] / New York Mediterranean. Circa 1905. $3,000 to $4,000.Swann
Rare & Important Travel Posters
November 25, 2025Swann, Nov. 25: White Star Line / Types of World Famous Liners. Circa 1927. $2,500 to $3,500.Swann, Nov. 25: Visit the USSR. 1958. $1,000 to $1,500.Swann, Nov. 25: Stefan Norblin. Wilno. Circa 1930. $800 to $1,200.Swann
Rare & Important Travel Posters
November 25, 2025Swann, Nov. 25: Samuel Henchoz. Villars Chesières Suisse. 1948. $800 to $1,200.Swann, Nov. 25: Roger Broders. Marseille / Porte de l'Afrique du Nord. 1929. $5,000 to $7,500.Swann, Nov. 25: Arthur Vivian Farrar. Time is Money / Underground. Gouache maquette. 1930. $1,000 to $1,500.Swann
Rare & Important Travel Posters
November 25, 2025Swann, Nov. 25: Hawaii / Paradise of the Pacific. 1908. $800 to $1,200.Swann, Nov. 25: David Klein. New York / Fly TWA. 1956. $7,000 to $10,000.Swann, Nov. 25: Leslie Ragan. The New 20th Century Limited / New York Central System. 1939. $15,000 to $20,000. -
Pandolfini Casa d’Aste
Books, Manuscripts, Autographs and Prints
18 November 2025Pandolfini, Nov. 18: Dante. De la volgare eloquenzia. Vicenza, Janiculo, 1529. € 1.500 / 2.000Pandolfini, Nov. 18: San Tommaso d’Aquino. Scriptum secundum luculentissimum angelico. Legato con Problemata. Lione, Jacques Myt e Francesco Giunta, 1520. € 2.500 / €3.500Pandolfini, Nov. 18: Palladio, Andrea. I quattro libri dell'architettura. Venezia, de' Franceschi, 1570. € 13.000 / 15.000Pandolfini Casa d’Aste
Books, Manuscripts, Autographs and Prints
18 November 2025Pandolfini, Nov. 18: De Saint Amant, Pierre Charles. Voyages en Californie et dans l'Orégon. Parigi, Maison, 1854. € 400 / 500Pandolfini, Nov. 18: Description de l’Égypte, ou Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l’expédition de l’armée française. Parigi, 1820-1829. € 35.000 / 40.000Pandolfini, Nov. 18: Allioni, Carlo. Flora Pedemontana sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii. Torino, Briolo, 1785. € 6.000 / 8.000Pandolfini Casa d’Aste
Books, Manuscripts, Autographs and Prints
18 November 2025Pandolfini, Nov. 18: First edition of John Gould's first work with uncolored backgrounds. € 5.000 / 7.000Pandolfini, Nov. 18: Rossini, Luigi. Le Antichità dei contorni di Roma. Roma, presso l'autore e Scudellari, 1824-26. € 2.500 / 3.500Pandolfini, Nov. 18: Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. New York, Appleton & Co., 1866. € 6.000 / 8.000Pandolfini Casa d’Aste
Books, Manuscripts, Autographs and Prints
18 November 2025Pandolfini, Nov. 18: Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf. Monaco, Franz Eher, 1925-27. € 15.000 / 20.000Pandolfini, Nov. 18: Interesting autograph from Proust to his dear little Daudet. € 3.000 / 4.000Pandolfini, Nov. 18: Beautiful and rare poetic manuscript, first draft, of an airy lightness by De Saint-Exupéry. € 4.000 / 5.000 -
![<b>Sotheby’s, Nov. 6-20:</b> [Hugo, Victor] — Charles Hugo, François-Victor Hugo ou Auguste Vacquerie. Portrait de Victor Hugo. Daguerréotype réalisé à Jersey vers 1852-1853. €20,000 to €30,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/2eb975fd-c434-48f2-b4fa-0c65aa245d45.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Nov. 6-20:</b> [Hugo, Victor] — Charles Hugo, François-Victor Hugo ou Auguste Vacquerie. Portrait de Victor Hugo. Daguerréotype réalisé à Jersey vers 1852-1853. €20,000 to €30,000.")
![<b>Sotheby’s, Nov. 6-20:</b> Chelidonius, Benedictus. <i>Passio Jesu Chriti.</i> [1526?]. Maroquin bleu de Niédrée. 37 bois inspirés par Dürer. €3,000 to €5,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/2fc30244-16a0-4e6b-bc4d-7fcc2cd48e0e.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Nov. 6-20:</b> Chelidonius, Benedictus. <i>Passio Jesu Chriti.</i> [1526?]. Maroquin bleu de Niédrée. 37 bois inspirés par Dürer. €3,000 to €5,000.")
Sotheby’s
Book Week
November & DecemberSotheby’s, Nov. 6-20: Audebert, Jean-Baptiste — Louis-Pierre Vieillot. Oiseaux dorés ou à reflets métalliques, Paris, 1801-1802. €40,000 to €60,000.Sotheby’s, Nov. 6-20: [Hugo, Victor] — Charles Hugo, François-Victor Hugo ou Auguste Vacquerie. Portrait de Victor Hugo. Daguerréotype réalisé à Jersey vers 1852-1853. €20,000 to €30,000.Sotheby’s, Nov. 6-20: Orbigny, Alcide d'. Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale... Paris, Pitois-Levrault et Cie et Strasbourg, Levrault, 1834-1847. €10,000 to €15,000.Sotheby’s, Nov. 6-20: Chelidonius, Benedictus. Passio Jesu Chriti. [1526?]. Maroquin bleu de Niédrée. 37 bois inspirés par Dürer. €3,000 to €5,000.Sotheby’s, Nov. 6-20: Cassini de Thury, César-François. Carte générale de la France faite en 1744. Paris, 1756-1788. 178 cartes entoilées, réunies dans 28 emboîtages. €15,000 to €20,000.
Rare Book Monthly
Book Catalogue Reviews - January - 2005 Issue
Dentistry and Other New Acquisitions at the Antiquariaat Forum
The book offers a new remedy for tooth decay
By Michael Stillman
The Antiquariaat Forum has announced a group of new listings via its website, rather than the printed page. Websites offer the opportunity to make new acquisitions immediately available, something that wasn't practical just a few years ago. The Antiquariaat Forum is located in the Netherlands, but not being an expert on Dutch history, I decided to focus on a group of new acquisitions to which we all can relate with equal dread. The subject is dentistry, and if that can make your teeth chatter today, just think what it must have been like centuries ago. Be thankful you get to read about it, rather than experience it.
Item 18 is L'Art du Dentiste mis à la portée de tout le monde... by Alex Lenti, published by the author in 1810. This was a popular book of dental advice by a Hamburg dentist. On the title is a quote attributed to Rousseau, "With beautiful teeth, there are no ugly women." Rousseau was the cranky French philosopher most noted for the "Social Contract," an influential 18th century tract where he proposes that our freedoms are best assured by following the laws of a social contract on which we all agree. In his personal affairs, Rousseau fathered a number of illegitimate children whom he sent off to foster homes rather than care for himself. Presumably their mothers all had good teeth. €5,500 (Equivalent US $7,442).
Item 23 from A. Schange is Description Treptodonte et de Stéréodonte, appareils nouveaux pour le redressement des Dents... Published in Paris in 1857, this is a book about some new dental instruments which will help rearrange your teeth and keep them in place. This is the wonderful field today known as "orthodontics." It describes the earliest use of "teeth-bracelets," or braces to use the less appealing term. Schange was a respected physician-dentist who was a member of various leaned academies. €2,350 (US $3,179).
C. Delacour was another French dentist who devised an elixir to stop tooth decay and its pain and spare the patient the need for pulling the decaying tooth. The ingredient was an aluminous camphorated chloroform. Directions called for cleaning the tooth as best possible, dipping a ball of cotton in the solution, and then, with the aid of an instrument provided with the medication, applying the soaked cotton ball to the decayed tooth. It probably didn't provide much long term help or we wouldn't be using fillings today, but the solution may well have worked at least to numb the pain. Item 11 is Notice sur la Carie des Dents et sur l'emploi d'une liqueur alumineuse camphrèe au chlorophorme... and it was published in 1848. €3,500 (US $4,736).
![<b>Swann, Nov. 20:</b> Lot 35<br>Matthias C. Sprengel, Allgemeines historisches Taschenbuch, the first published appearance of the American flag, [1784].](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/f0781015-5eab-4da4-863c-33412e7d42b5.jpg "<b>Swann, Nov. 20:</b> Lot 35<br>Matthias C. Sprengel, Allgemeines historisches Taschenbuch, the first published appearance of the American flag, [1784].")
