Brontë Presentation Copy, Dumas First Edition, Dunbar Letters: Auction Preview
Hand-colored map of the New England region from John Ogilby's America (1671), offered at Forum Auctions this week.
Here are the sales I'll be watching this week:
At New England Book Auctions on Tuesday, March 25, 210 lots of Early Printing, Americana, Exploration & Selections from the Inventory of Periodyssey.
ALDE sells 227 lots of the Bibliothèque Patrice de Bailliencourt – Souvenirs provenant de Félicité Baudelaire on Wednesday, March 26. A first edition copy of Dumas' Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, in eighteen volumes, is estimated at €20,000–30,000, while Stendhal's Histoire de la Peinture en Italie (1817) could sell for €10,000–12,000. Among the Baudelaire material, a seven-volume set of the Oeuvres Complètes (1868–1870) is expected to fetch €3,000–4,000.
At Forum Auctions on Wednesday, 243 lots from the Library of Barry Humphries, including a set of four Evelyn Waugh novels from a 1937 limited edition, each signed and numbered by Waugh and presented to publisher Thomas Balston (£10,000–15,000). Eight original illustrations by Hans Pellar for the 1923 book Der Verliebte Flamingo are estimated at £6,000–8,000, and William Beckford's 1797 novel Azemia could sell for £4,000–6,000. The same estimate range is assigned to a first edition copy of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal (1857) and a copy of the 1896 edition of Pope's Rape of the Lock on Japanese vellum with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley.
Forum sells 273 lots of Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper on Thursday, March 27. Albrecht Dürer's Hierin sind begriffen vier bücher von menschlicher Proportion (1528) rates the top estimate at £30,000–40,000. A manuscript of Pope Gregory I's Homiliae XL in Evangelia (England, c.1475) is expected to sell for £25,000–35,000, as is a manuscript Book of Hours from Lyon from the same period. A first edition of Charlotte Brontë's Villette (1853) inscribed by the author to William Makepeace Thackeray is estimated at £10,000–15,000.
At Freeman's | Hindman on Thursday, Books and Manuscripts, in 283 lots. Sharing the top estimate of $20,000–30,000 are a copy of the Journal and Proceedings of the First Continental Congress (1774) and a first edition of Locke's Two Treatises of Government (1690). Three autographed books and four letters by Paul Laurence Dunbar are expected to sell for $10,000–15,000.
PBA Galleries sells 333 lots of Books in All Fields with Literature, Americana, Maps, Photograph, Art on Thursday, with all lots sold without reserve, starting at $10.
