Apple Poster Signed by Steve Jobs, Margaret Bourke-White Photograph, Buffon’s Birds: Auction Preview
An engraved world map from about 1662, showing California as an island, offered at Forum Auctions this week.
At Artcurial on Tuesday, September 24, 120 lots of Livres & Manuscrits, including Buffon's Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (1770–1786) in twenty volumes, estimated at €15,000–30,000 and Hans Bellmer's 1949 Les Jeux de la Poupée, Illustrés de textes par Paul Éluard (€25,000–35,000).
Ader sells 285 lots of Livres Anciens et Modernes on Tuesday, with Jacques Lagniet's Recueil des plus Illustres Proverbes (1657–1663) rating the top estimate at €10,000–15,000. A group of 240 issues of the literary magazine Derrière le miroir (1946–1982) are expected to sell for €3,000–4,000.
At New England Book Auctions on Tuesday, 225 lots of Fine Books & Ephemera, with the usual wide range of material on offer.
Heritage Auctions will sell 391 lots of Historical Manuscripts including Texana on Wednesday, September 25. Highlights are expected to include a 1980 Apple poster inscribed by Steve Jobs; a June 1799 George Washington letter; and a 1952 letter from a college student to Albert Einstein about generalized gravitation, annotated by Einstein's corrections and notes.
At Forum Auctions on Tuesday, September 26, Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper, in 505 lots. Sharing the top estimate of £15,000–20,000 are the 1671 Biblia Sacra Arabica and an original E. H. Shepard illustration for Wind in the Willows, "Toad Escapes from Prison." A copy of the 1778 second edition of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is estimated at £12,000–18,000. A c.1662 Blaeu world map showing California as an island could fetch £8,000–12,000.
Swann Galleries holds their New York Sale on Thursday, in 231 lots, including Margaret Bourke-White's 1930 photograph of the Chrysler Building under construction ($30,000–45,000); a later print of William Klein's 1955 photograph "Atomic Sky" ($15,000–25,000); and more than 140 photographs from the 1890s through the 1940s documenting arrivals at Ellis Island ($8,000–12,000).
At PBA Galleries on Thursday, 485 lots of Books in All Fields, all sold without reserve starting at $10.
