Booker T. Washington Presentation Copy, Dali Bible, Ricky Jay Selections: Auction Preview
Design binding by Rose Adler on a 1947 edition of Descartes' Discours, offered at Aguttes this week.
Here are the sales I'll be watching this week:
At Aguttes on Wednesday, February 26, Livres & Manuscrits, in 240 lots. Bernard Buffet's album of lithographs of Paris, accompanied by poems by Baudelaire (1962) rates the top estimate at €20,000–22,000. A copy of the five-volume Biblia Sacra illustrated by Salvador Dali (1967) could sell for €6,000–8,000. Some interesting design bindings in this sale too, including a Rose Adler binding on a 1947 edition of Descartes' Discours with illustrations by Camille-Paul Josso; this is accompanied by Adler's binding model and templates (€5,000–6,000).
On Wednesday at Heritage Auctions, History in Pen & Ink: A Century of Cartoons & Illustrations, in 315 lots. Lots include Thomas Nast's original illustration "Darkness of Indulgence," and a Garth Williams ink drawing "And He Played in the Grass" from around 1945.
At Chiswick Auctions on Thursday, February 27, 225 lots of Books & Works on Paper, with a group of eighty-one letters from Georges Clemenceau to Admiral Frederick Maxse from 1882 to 1899 rating the top estimate at £4,000–6,000. A 1617 edition of Vesalius' Anatomia viri could sell for £3,500–4,500.
Forum Auctions sells 211 lots from the Ricky Jay Collection on Thursday, with Daniel Mendoza's Memoirs (1816) sharing the top estimate at £1,500–2,000 with a copy of the 1795 publication Hocus Pocus: or the Art of Conjuration. A lot of interesting advertising broadsides, some magic-themed, will go on the block in this sale.
At Freeman's | Hindman on Thursday, 284 lots of American Historical Ephemera & Photography, including African Americana. An early pamphlet copy of the Emancipation Proclamation is expected to lead the way at $7,000–10,000. Booker T. Washington's The Story of the Negro (1909) inscribed by Washington to President William Howard Taft is estimated at $6,000–8,000. Tom Bullock's The Ideal Bartender (1917), the first bartender's book by an African American author, is expected to sell for $5,000–7,000.
