Auction features almost 300 lots of printed Americana, Literature, Fishing, Art, Maps, Prints, and more, led by an incredible rarity of with a remarkable association: English Romantic poet John Keats's personal copy of The Works of Edmond Spenser… Renowned book collector A. Edward Newton considered it as the centerpiece of his legendary collection ($50,000-$80,000). Other top lots include an impressive 1615 illuminated portolan chart of the Mediterranean by ($20,000-$30,000), and the very rare 1698 first edition of Gabriel Thomas’s foundational An Historical and Geographical Account of the Province and Country of Pensilvania; and of West-New-Jersey in America... ($25,000-$35,000)
The sale proudly offers 55 lots of books and prints from the Fishing and Sporting library of American naturalist and adventurer Brooke Dolan II, including the very rare 1653 first edition of Izaak Walton’s masterpiece The Compleat Angler ($30,000-50,000), , as well as Sir Humphrey Davy’s copy of Sarah Bowdich’s 1828 The Freshwater Fishes of Great Britain, considered the rarest work on ichthyology ($25,000-$35,000).
Rounding out the auction is a land patent signed by Benjamin Franklin selling a tract of land confiscated from loyalist Joseph Galloway ($12,000-$18,000), the first complete edition of the Hebrew Bible published in America, in 1814 ($7,000-$10,000); an 1838 first edition of Carswell’s Pathological Anatomy ($8,000-$12,000), a near-complete set of James Otto Lewis’s 1835 The Aboriginal Port Folio ($8,000-$12,000), a fine association copy of George Edwards’s The Natural History of Uncommon Birds..., 1743-51 ($15,000-$25,000), an extremely scarce original ticket to Charles Willson Peale’s American Museum ($3,000-$5,000), the first-ever game based on Alice in Wonderland, 1882 ($2,000-$3,000), letters signed by Sigmund Freud ($5,000-8,000) and Albert Einstein ($3,000-$5,000), Presidential material including a photograph of their famous televised debate, inscribed by John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon ($10,000-$15,000), a signed copy of Theodore Roosevelt’s African Game Trails ($4,000-6,000), a pen used by JFK to sign the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty of 1963 ($3,000-$5,000), documents signed by Abraham Lincoln, John Quincy Adams, James Monroe, William McKinley and more.
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