Early Hemingway, Mars Globe, Tereshkova Notebook: Auction Preview
Leaf from Valentina Tereshkova's ground practice journal written before her space flight, offered at Bonhams this week.
Here are the sales I'll be watching this week:
At New England Book Auctions on Tuesday, October 22, 225 lots of Fine Books & Ephemera.
Chiswick Auctions sells 296 lots of Photographica on Wednesday, October 23, including the deluxe "Museum Edition" of 21st: The Journal of Contemporary Photography (1998–2004), expected to sell for £5,000–7,000. A copy of the deluxe edition of MacLean Gander's poem The New City, with photographs by Jefferson Hayman (21st Editions, 2008) is estimated at £2,500–3,500. The 21st Editions publication Mont-Saint-Michel (2006), with photographs by Michael Kenna, is expected to sell for £2,000–3,000.
At Bonhams New York on Wednesday, History of Science and Technology, in 42 lots. An Apple "Twiggy" Macintosh prototype (1983) rates the top estimate at $80,000–120,000, while three Alan Turing articles from the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, including "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem" (1936) are estimated at $30,000–50,000.
Bonhams Los Angeles sells 170 lots of Space History on Wednesday, including Valentina Tereshkova's ground practice journal before her space flight, expected to sell for $25,000–35,000. A Mars globe made by Emmy Ingeborg Brun, a self-taught Danish astronomer, is estimated at $15,000–20,000.
At Swann Galleries on Thursday, October 24, 339 lots of Fine Books, with a Second Shakespeare Folio (1632) rating the top estimate at $120,000–180,000. Two 1520s works by Agostino Nifo, Libellus de Rege Tyranno and De Regnandi Peritia ad Carolum VI, in a 19th-century binding likely by Theodore Hagué, could sell for $25,000–35,000. A copy of the first edition of Hemingway's in our time (1924) is estimated at $20,000–30,000.
On Thursday at Freeman's | Hindman, Visions of America: The Stephen White Collection, in 201 lots. A twenty-volume extra-illustrated copy of Hay and Nicolay's Abraham Lincoln: A History (1890) is expected to sell for $50,000–70,000. A first edition copy of Theodor de Bry's Admiranda narratio (1590), with Thomas Hariot's description of Virginia and illustrations after John White's watercolors is estimated at $30,000–50,000.
At Bonhams New York on Thursday, 102 lots of Americana, Natural History, and Travel, including a first edition copy of Thomas Paine's Common Sense, along with the later Large Additions to Common Sense ($120,000–180,000); a second edition of Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands (1754) could sell for $100,000–150,000; and an 1817 Thomas Jefferson letter to the Paris booksellers Debures Freres is expected to sell for $40,000–60,000.
On Friday, October 25, 302 lots of American Historical Ephemera and Photography at Freeman's | Hindman, including an 1850s daguerreotype portrait believed to be of an interracial couple ($30,000–50,000); a group of early photographs related to South Carolina planter Samuel Smith including several which appear to include enslaved people ($20,000–30,000); and Eadweard Muybridge's eleven-photograph Panorama of San Francisco from California St. Hill (1877),expected to sell for $12,000–16,000.
