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<center><b>Jeschke Jadi Auctions Berlin<br>Rare Books, Prints, Historical Photography<br>29 September 2023</b><b>Jeschke Jádi, Sep. 29:</b> Jan Theodor de Bry. <i>Anthologia magna sive Florilegium novum.</i> 1626. 9,000 €<b>Jeschke Jádi, Sep. 29:</b> John Locke. <i>Epistola de tolerantia ad Clarissimum Virum T.A.R.P.T.O.L.A.</i> 1689. 9000 €<b>Jeschke Jádi, Sep. 29:</b> F. T. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella, Carrà, a.o. <i>Collection of 35 Futurist manifestos.</i> 1909-1933. 7000 €<b>Jeschke Jádi, Sep. 29:</b> Johann Elert Bode, Rare engraved celestial globe. (1804). 6000 €<b>Jeschke Jádi, Sep. 29:</b> Sebastian Brant (ed.). <i>Tertia pars huius operis in se continens glosam ordinariam cum expositione lyre litterali et morali.</i> 1498. 5000 €
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<center><b>Christie’s<br>Charlie Watts: Literature and Jazz<br>London and online auction<br>15–29 September</b><b>Christie’s, Explore now:</b><br>F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940). <i>The Great Gatsby.</i> New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. £100,000–150,000<b>Christie’s, Explore now:</b><br>Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930). </i>The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes.</b> London: George Newnes, 1902. £70,000–100,000<b>Christie’s, Explore now:</b><br>Agatha Christie (1890–1976). <i>The Thirteen Problems.</i> London: for the Crime Club Ltd. by W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1932. £40,000–60,000<b>Christie’s, Explore now:</b><br>Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961). <i>The Maltese Falcon.</i> New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. £30,000–50,000
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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 €
Rare Book Monthly
Book Catalogue Reviews - January - 2007 Issue
93 Blake Plates from John Windle, Antiquarian Bookseller
By Michael Stillman
This catalogue is for collectors of William Blake, the 18th-19th century artist-illustrator-engraver-poet whose admirers are among the most passionate known to man. Blake is one of the hardest people to place. As an artist and poet, he was more his own man than a follower of some particular school. Besides which, how many people are both visual artists and poets? He was certainly an eccentric man, some would say mad. As a youth he saw religious visions, yet he would become an opponent of most organized religion and a follower of radical politics. His intensity matched those of his present-day admirers. His work has been considered everything from fair to perhaps the greatest art ever produced. John Windle, Antiquarian Bookseller, who produced this catalogue, is undoubtedly closest to the latter point of view. He has long specialized in Blake, and has provided a major source of material for those in awe of his work.
Windle's 42nd catalogue is a collection of Blake Plates, 93 in all. There are plates available for just about any budget. In his introduction, Windle notes, "It still astonishes me that original prints by an artist who is regularly ranked with Durer, Rembrandt, and Goya as one of the great masters of the medium can be purchased for nominal sums." If Blake's work is surprisingly affordable today, it was even more so in his time. His reputation took a long time to develop. During his lifetime, Blake was never highly respected nor rewarded financially, generally depending on a benefactor or two to enable him to earn a living. Then again, a lack of recognition in one's lifetime is hardly unusual for great artists.
Included in the catalogue is a range of prints from early engravings made by Blake to some of his finest original art. There are 25 Blake illustrations taken from his 1825 Book of Job. This was the last series Blake completed, it having been commissioned by his friend John Linnell in 1823, essentially to enable Blake to support himself. The drawings are quintessentially Blake, otherworldly and spiritual. Blake, with his own share of struggle in attempting to understand God, surely could have related to poor Job.
There are four impressions from Blake's two books of poetry, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, originally published in 1789 and 1794. Included are plates from the Nurse's Song, different versions of which appeared in the Songs of Innocence vs. Experience. In the former, the nurse is herself childlike, joyful and sympathetic to the playfulness of the children in her care. In the latter, she is cynical and embittered, seeing their play as a waste of time. Five years of raising children can do this to you.
Twelve images are from Dante's Divine Comedy. This was Blake's final work, as he died in 1827, after completing just seven. The twelve here offered of necessity means that some are available in multiple copies. As with Job, John Linnell commissioned this final work of Blake, who had worked on many drawings for the book, but had completed the engraving of just the seven.
Shown on the front cover is an image of Spring, taken from the Songs of Innocence. John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller may be found online at www.johnwindle.com, telephone 415-986-5826.