At Dominic Winter Auctioneers on Wednesday, October 9, 441 lots of Printed Books, Maps & Playing Cards. Hans Meyer's Across East African Glaciers (1891) rates the top estimate at £3,000–5,000, while Eleazar Albin's 1720 Natural History of English Insects is expected to sell for £2,500–3,000. A copy of John Florio's A Worlde of Words (1598) is estimated at £2,000–3,000.
Forum Auctions sells 280 lots of Books and Works on Paper online on Thursday, October 10, with four portrait posters of Russian White Army commanders from about 1919–1920 expected to fetch £1,000–1,500. An album of correspondence to Cambridge University typist Minnie Pate, including notes from George Mallory, E. M. Forster and others, is estimated at £800–1,200.
At Swann Galleries on Thursday, 198 lots of Rare & Important Travel Posters, with Leslie Ragan's 1939 design for The New 20th Century Limited train sharing the top estimate of $12,000–18,000 with Paul George Lawler's poster of the same year for Pan-Am, Hawaii By Flying Clipper.
On Friday, October 11, Heritage Auctions holds a Rare Books Signature sale of 347 lots, including a first edition of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (starting at $75,000); a set of first editions of the Lord of the Rings trilogy (starting at $65,000); and a first edition of the Book of Mormon (starting at $62,500).
