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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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<b><center>CONSIGN NOW</b><b>Ketterer Rare Books, Preview:</b></br> H. Scherer, <i>Atlas novus exhibens orbem terraqueum,</i> 1702-10.<br>Est: € 15,000<b>Ketterer Rare Books, Preview:</b></br> L. de Varthema, <i>Die Ritterlich und lobwirdig rayß,</i> 1515.<br>Est: € 60,000<b>Ketterer Rare Books, Preview:</b></br> G. Heym, <i>Umbra vitae,</i> 1924.<br>Est: € 8,000<b>Ketterer Rare Books, Preview:</b></br>F. de Wit, <i>Orbis maritimus ofte Zee Atlas,</i> around 1680.<br>Est: € 15,000
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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 - July - 2007 Issue
More Historic Americana from David Lesser Antiquarian Books
By Michael Stillman
David M. Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books has issued their 98th catalogue of Rare Americana. Here are 124 new items pertaining to American history, primarily from colonial times to the First World War. The issues of the day are once again debated before our eyes in a David Lesser catalogue. We hear the arguments over slavery, pro and con, along with witnessing the disintegration of the Union, each side blaming the other. We hear revolutionaries calling out for independence from Britain, and theologians arguing the theological issues of the day. And, of course, there are the politicians, their supporters slandering each other with a vehemence that resembles politics today. If you are fascinated by American history, you will want to see this catalogue, and perhaps, own a few of the intriguing documents within its pages.
Here is something you didn't know about Lincoln, courtesy of the New York Minute Guard in October of 1864: "there is not an intelligent man in America who believes him fit for the Presidency of this Republic." Apparently, Lincoln was re-elected entirely by stupid people. The Minute Guard favored the election of General George McClellan, as Lincoln had changed the "War for the Union to a war for forcible Emancipation, Conscription, and Miscegenation." Unfortunately for the Minute Guard, McClellan proved no more successful as a political candidate than he was as a general. Item 77. Priced at $850.
Item 29 is one of those documents that signified the end of any hope of holding the Union together through compromise. From 1860, it is Breckenridge and Lane Campaign Documents, No. 9. Reply of Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, to the Speech of Senator Douglas, in the U.S. Senate, May 17 and 18, 1860. Stephen Douglas was still trying to push his policy of Popular Sovereignty, an anathema through much of the North as it allowed territories once barred from having slavery to choose to permit the hated institution. However, Davis attacked from the other side, claiming the national government was obligated to enforce slaveholders' "property rights" in the territories regardless of the locals' opinions. When Breckenridge and the southern Democrats bolted from Douglas' national party, the stage was set for Lincoln's election and the secession of the southern states. $250.
Item 28 includes twelve issues of The Eclaireur, published by Augustus Cowman (a grown-up cowboy?). Contrary to my initial expectation, this is not about bakers of those wonderful, cream-filled pastries. No, Colonel Cowman explains that an "eclaireur" is a mounted military scout who collects intelligence. This publication ran from 1853-1857, and was published in Franklin D. Roosevelt's hometown of Hyde Park, New York, though long before FDR was born. $500.