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<center><b>Potter & Potter Auctions<br>Nobu Shirase and the Japanese Antarctic Expedition: the Collection of Chet Ross<br>October 12, 2023</b><b>Potter & Potter, Oct. 12:</b> [BYRD]. VEER, Willard Van der and Joseph T. RUCKER, cinematographers. The 35mm motion picture Akeley camera that filmed the Academy Award-winning documentary “With Byrd at the South Pole”. $30,000 to $50,000.<b>Potter & Potter, Oct. 12:</b> [SHIRASE, Nobu, his copy]. RYUKEI, Yano. <i>Young Politicians of Thebes: Illustrious Tales of Statesmanship.</i> Tokyo(?), 1881-84. $15,000 to $20,000.<b>Potter & Potter, Oct. 12:</b> SHACKLETON, Ernest H. <i>The Antarctic Book.</i> Winter Quarters 1907-1909 [dummy copy of the supplement to: <i>The Heart of the Antarctic</i>]. London, 1909. $10,000 to $15,000.<b>Potter & Potter, Oct. 12:</b> [USS BEAR]. The original auxiliary deck wheel from the famed USS Bear, 1874-1933. “PROBABLY THE MOST FAMOUS SHIP IN THE HISTORY OF THE COAST GUARD” (USCG). $10,000 to $15,000.<b>Potter & Potter, Oct. 12:</b> HENSON, Matthew. <i>A Negro Explorer at the North Pole.</i> With a forward by Robert Peary. Introduction by Booker T. Washington. New York, [1912]. $3,000 to $4,000.
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<center><b>Gonnelli: Auction 46 Books<br>Autographs & Manuscripts<br>Oct 3rd-5th 2023</b><b>Gonnelli:</b> Tilson - Zanotto, Il vero tema. 2011. Starting price 150 €<b>Gonnelli:</b> Munari, Storia di un filo. Starting price 400 €<b>Gonnelli:</b> Debord, Contre le cinéma. 1964. Starting price 150 €<b>Gonnelli:</b> Futurism books and ephemera<b>Gonnelli:</b> Travel books<b>Gonnelli:</b> Medicine books<b>Gonnelli:</b> Levaillant, Histoire naturelle des perroquets. 1801-1805. Starting price 52.000 €<b>Gonnelli:</b> Carrera, Il gioco de gli scacchi. 1617. Starting price 3200 €<b>Gonnelli:</b> Vergilius, Opera. 1515. Starting price 800 €
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<b><center>Forum Auctions<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper<br>28th September 2023</b><b>Forum Auctions, Sep. 28:</b> Asia.- Mandeville (Sir John). <i>Tractato bellissimo delle piu maravigliose cose & piu motabile che sitrovino nelle parte delmondo,</i> Florence, [Lorenzo Morgiani], [?1505] or possibly, 1496-99. £40,000 to £60,000.<b>Forum Auctions, Sep. 28:</b> Arabic ms.- Ghazaliyaat Kan'at al-Arabi [Divan of Poetry written in Arabic], illuminated manuscript in Arabic, Safavid Persia (probably Isfahan), [second quarter of 16th century]. £12,000 to £16,000.<b>Forum Auctions, Sep. 28:</b> Foxe (John). <i>Actes and monuments of these latter and perillous dayes, touching matters of the Church…,</i> first edition, dwellyng ouer Aldersgate, [20th March, 1563]. £15,000 to £20,000.<b><center>Forum Auctions<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper<br>28th September 2023</b><b>Forum Auctions, Sep. 28:</b> Barrie (J.M.) <i>Peter Pan or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up,</i> first play edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "To my dear Jane Pan", 1928. £3,000 to £4,000.<b>Forum Auctions, Sep. 28:</b> Gillray (James). John Bull taking a Luncheon: -or- British Cooks, cramming Old Grumble-Gizzard, with Bonne-Chére, etching with hand-colouring, 1798. £1,500 to £2,000.<b>Forum Auctions, Sep. 28:</b> Middle East.- Roberts (David). <i>The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia,</i> 6 vol. bound as 4, first edition, 1842-49. £12,000 to £18,000.<b><center>Forum Auctions<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper<br>28th September 2023</b><b>Forum Auctions, Sep. 28:</b> Greenwood (C. & J.) <i>Map of London made from an Actual Survey in the Years 1824, 1825 & 1826...,</i> first edition, engraved map, 1827. £15,000 to £20,000.<b>Forum Auctions, Sep. 28:</b> Newton (Sir Isaac). <i>Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light…,</i> first edition, 1704. £15,000 to £20,000.<b>Forum Auctions, Sep. 28:</b> Smith (Percy John Delf). Collection of 19 original preliminary drawings for "Twelve Drypoints of the War 1914-1918", circa 1914-1918; together with 11 drypoints from "Twelve Drypoints of the War 1914-1918", 1925. £15,000 to<b><center>Forum Auctions<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper<br>28th September 2023</b><b>Forum Auctions, Sep. 28:</b> Guild of Women Binders.- Watts (Alaric A.) <i>Lyrics of the Heart: with other poems</I>, in a stunning richly gilt green crushed morocco by the Guild of Women Binders, Longman, 1851. £12,000 to £18,000.<b>Forum Auctions, Sep. 28:</b> Cosway binding.- Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge). "Lewis Carroll". <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,</i> in a Cosway binding with miniatures by Miss C.B. Currie, 1868. £10,000 to £15,000.<b>Forum Auctions, Sep. 28:</b> Fleming (Ian). <i>Casino Royale,</i> first edition, first impression, 1953. £18,000 to £22,000.
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<center><b>Swann Auction Galleries View Our Record Breaking Results</b><b>Swann:</b> Charles Monroe Schulz, <i>The Peanuts gang,</i> complete set of 13 drawings, ink, 1971. Sold June 15 — $50,000.<b>Swann:</b> Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Family Archive of Photographs & Letters. Sold June 1 — $60,000.<b>Swann:</b> Victor H. Green, <i>The Negro Motorist Green Book,</i> New York, 1949. Sold March 30 — $50,000.<b>Swann:</b> William Shakespeare, <i>King Lear; Othello;</i> [and] <i>Anthony & Cleopatra;</i> Extracted from the First Folio, London, 1623. Sold May 4— $185,000.<center><b>Swann Auction Galleries View Our Record Breaking Results</b><b>Swann:</b> William Samuel Schwartz, <i>A Bridge in Baraboo, Wisconsin,</i> oil on canvas, circa 1938. Sold February 16 — $32,500.<b>Swann:</b> Lena Scott Harris, <i>Group of approximately 65 hand-colored botanical studies, all apparently California native plants,</i> hand-colored silver prints, circa 1930s. Sold February 23 — $37,500.<b>Swann:</b> Suzanne Jackson, <i>Always Something To Look For,</i> acrylic & pencil on linen canvas, circa 1974. Sold April 6 — $87,500.<b>Swann:</b> Gustav Klimt, <i>Das Werk von Gustav Klimt,</i> complete with 50 printed collotype plates, Vienna & Leipzig, 1918. Sold June 15 — $68,750.
Rare Book Monthly
Book Catalogue Reviews - November - 2005 Issue
Famous Signatures And Documents From The Raab Collection
By Michael Stillman
Catalogue number 50 is now available from The Raab Collection. Raab specializes in signed documents and autographs. You won't find any obscure signatures in this collection. Every signature is from a name you will recognize, or from a person with some important place in history. This is a catalogue of the most collectible names from the past. Here are a few examples.
Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were often on opposite sides when it came to plans for the new republic. Hamilton wanted to see the nation develop as an economic and trading power. Jefferson preferred to see an agrarian democracy. Hamilton had more success in promoting his ideas with President Washington. In 1789-90, he pushed through his program to levy taxes on imported goods, both to operate the government, and most importantly, pay off federal debts from the Revolution and assume those of the states. Jefferson had particularly opposed the assumption of states' debts. The initial duties were insufficient to cover these needs, and so in early 1790, it was necessary for the government to raise those fees. Item 3 is An Act for the Payment of the Debts of the United States, as passed by Congress and certified as a "true copy" by the Secretary of State. Ironically, Washington's Secretary of State whose duty it was to certify this copy was none other than Thomas Jefferson, who opposed many of the expenditures for which taxes had to be raised. Priced at $17,500.
It is probably the most recognizable signature of anyone in America. Item 4 is an example of John Hancock's "John Hancock." Hancock was President of the Continental Congress from 1775-77, and was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence, in the boldest of signatures so the British could not miss it. Hancock would go on to serve as Governor of Massachusetts during most of the years from independence until his death in 1793. This item is the appointment of Peleg Chandler as coroner of Cumberland County (now part of Maine). The signature is the same flourished autograph which graces the Declaration of Independence. $6,000.
Item 13 is a most interesting document concerning Henry Clay's early days in Congress. Clay would go on to be best remembered for his compromises, his battles with Andrew Jackson, and his close but unsuccessful run for the presidency in 1844. However, he first came to Washington as one of the "war hawks," those who successfully pushed to have America go to war with Britain in 1812. One of the major causes, and one which led to great indignation on American shores, was the British habit of impressing U.S. sailors into their navy. The British still recognized these sailors as British subjects. But, once the war was over, America was unable to get Britain to renounce the right to this practice. In this 1839 letter to Robert Chilton, a very early photographer, Clay admits that America was not able to secure everything it wanted, but quit the war because it was "exhausted." Clay then points out that with Britain's various European wars which led to the impressments now over, she would not have any call to use the practice anyway, and the United States could go back to war refreshed if the practice resumed. It never did. $6,300.