Martin Luther Letter, Bath Aquatints, Bookbinding Tools: Auction Preview
Aquatint from John Claude Nattes' Bath, Illustrated by a Series of Views (1806), offered at Forum Auctions this week.
Here are the sales I'll be watching this week:
Ending on Tuesday, August 13, New England Book Auctions' Fine Books & Ephemera sale, in 229 lots. The usual wide variety of material in this one.
At Dominic Winter Auctioneers on Wednesday, August 14, 300 lots of Books, Maps, Prints & Pictures, Ephemera & Bookbinding Tools, including a substantial but broken run of The Sporting Magazine in 146 volumes; eleven cartons of what is described as "miscellaneous British topographical ephemera"; and a number of lots of nice bookbinding tools.
Heritage Auctions holds a Depth of Field: Photographs Showcase auction on Wednesday, in 88 lots. Tyler Shields' Casablanca (2022) is expected to lead the way at $3,000–5,000, while a 1922 Dorothea Lange portrait photo known as Seated Man with Tie could fetch $2,000–3,000.
At RR Auction on Wednesday, 888 lots of Fine Autographs and Artifacts, including a 1543 Martin Luther letter to George Buchholzer of Berlin, which is estimated at more than $250,000. An April 22, 1816 letter from Beethoven about a house appraisal could sell for upwards of $60,000; a document signed by Johannes Kepler is expected to sell in the same range.
Forum Auctions sells 200 lots of Books and Works on Paper on Thursday, August 15, among them a large paper copy of the 1894 Riverside Press edition of the works of Charles Dickens in thirty-two volumes (£2,000–3,000); John Claude Nattes' 1806 plate book Bath, Illustrated by a Series of Views (£1,000–1,500); and eighty-six volumes of the works of Anthony Trollope, in Tauchnitz editions (also estimated at £1,000–1,500).
