Potter & Potter to Auction Science, Americana, and more at October Sale
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Gaius Julius Caesar's The Commentaries, edited by Samuel Clarke (1712).
Potter & Potter to Auction Science, Americana, and more at October Sale
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species
- Item On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
- Published 1860
- Price Est. $8,000–10,000
This is a second edition, second issue with an 1860 imprint and "fifth thousand” on the title page. In actuality, 3,000 copies were printed, bringing the total to 4,250. "It is the most influential and important biological work ever produced on any continent," Brink said. "This scarce second edition was considered by Darwin as 'little more than a reprint of the first edition' and was the largest printing of any edition or issue in Darwin’s lifetime."
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Thomas Hawkins's The Book of the Great Sea-Dragons, Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri…Extinct Monsters of the Ancient Earth.
- Item The Book of the Great Sea-Dragons, Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri…Extinct Monsters of the Ancient Earth.
- Published 1840
- Price Est. $3,000–4,000
"This first edition is of one of the first scientific studies of dinosaurs by the paleontologist and fossil collector and dealer, Thomas Hawkins, whose specimens are still on display at the Natural History Museum in London," Brink said.
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Lord John Joinville's The History of Saint Louis from the Gregynog Press
- Item The History of Saint Louis
- Published 1937
- Price Est. $1,200–2,000
This limited edition is number 27 of 200 copies on handmade paper and is finely bound by the Gregynog Press. "This is considered to be the most impressive book to ever come from the Gregynog Press," Brink said.
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Jonathan Swift's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World By Capt. Lemuel Gulliver. Vol. III
- Item Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World By Capt. Lemuel Gulliver. Vol. III
- Published 1727
- Price Est. $1,500–2,500
"The third pretended volume anonymously published in 1727 is considered the best known spurious third volume to Gulliver’s travels and is frequently offered with the two volumes of the genuine 'Travels' published one year prior," Brink said. "Part I, 'A Second Voyage to Brobdingnag and A Voyage to Sporunda,' Teerink describes as an 'imitation' and Part II 'A Voyage to Sevarambia' as being 'stolen from "‘The History of the Sevarites and Sevarambi" by one Captain Siden… (1675-9).' In Sir Walter Scott’s 'Memoirs of Jonathan Swift', Scott referred to this work as 'the most impudent combination of piracy and forgery that ever occurred in the literary world'."
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Gaius Julius Caesar's The Commentaries
- Item The Commentaries
- Published 1712
- Price Est. $7,000–9,000
This copy includes a double-page engraved title; portraits of the Duke of Marlborough and Caesar; six double-page engraved maps; 78 plates, most of which are also double-page; and numerous engraved headpieces, tailpieces, and initials. "This work was considered by Lowndes to be 'The most sumptuous classical work which this country has produced'," Brink said. "It also includes a complete double-page plate of the the wild bull."
John Ashbery's The Poems
- Item The Poems
- Illustrator Joan Mitchell, Frank O'Hara, Michael Goldman, and more.
- Published 1960
- Price Est. $4,000–6,000
"This outstanding and important post-war American artist book features collaborations between four of the most influential American poets of the second half of the twentieth century and four important second-generation New York School artists," said Christopher D. Brink, Fine Books and Manuscripts Specialist at Potter & Potter Auctions. "According to the prospectus, the collaborators all 'lived in New York City where they knew one another well for a number of years and followed one another's work with involved interest. Tiber Press left the choice of partners in this project to the individuals themselves, and, in collaborating, the poet and painter were acknowledging an awareness of some real relationship between their work"
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Walker Evans's American Photographs
- Item American Photographs
- Published 1938
- Price Est. $1,500–2,500
This very fine first edition, first printing is one of only 5,000 copies and is rarely seen in this condition. "This is considered to be one of the foremost American photography books and the first to be devoted to the work of a single photographer," Brink said.
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Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species
- Item On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
- Author Charles Darwin
- Published 1860
- Price Est. $8,000–10,000
This is a second edition, second issue with an 1860 imprint and "fifth thousand” on the title page. In actuality, 3,000 copies were printed, bringing the total to 4,250. "It is the most influential and important biological work ever produced on any continent," Brink said. "This scarce second edition was considered by Darwin as 'little more than a reprint of the first edition' and was the largest printing of any edition or issue in Darwin’s lifetime."
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Thomas Hawkins's The Book of the Great Sea-Dragons, Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri…Extinct Monsters of the Ancient Earth.
- Item The Book of the Great Sea-Dragons, Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri…Extinct Monsters of the Ancient Earth.
- Author Thomas Hawkins
- Published 1840
- Price Est. $3,000–4,000
"This first edition is of one of the first scientific studies of dinosaurs by the paleontologist and fossil collector and dealer, Thomas Hawkins, whose specimens are still on display at the Natural History Museum in London," Brink said.
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Lord John Joinville's The History of Saint Louis from the Gregynog Press
- Item The History of Saint Louis
- Author Lord John Joinville
- Published 1937
- Price Est. $1,200–2,000
This limited edition is number 27 of 200 copies on handmade paper and is finely bound by the Gregynog Press. "This is considered to be the most impressive book to ever come from the Gregynog Press," Brink said.
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Jonathan Swift's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World By Capt. Lemuel Gulliver. Vol. III
- Item Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World By Capt. Lemuel Gulliver. Vol. III
- Author Jonathan Swift
- Published 1727
- Price Est. $1,500–2,500
"The third pretended volume anonymously published in 1727 is considered the best known spurious third volume to Gulliver’s travels and is frequently offered with the two volumes of the genuine 'Travels' published one year prior," Brink said. "Part I, 'A Second Voyage to Brobdingnag and A Voyage to Sporunda,' Teerink describes as an 'imitation' and Part II 'A Voyage to Sevarambia' as being 'stolen from "‘The History of the Sevarites and Sevarambi" by one Captain Siden… (1675-9).' In Sir Walter Scott’s 'Memoirs of Jonathan Swift', Scott referred to this work as 'the most impudent combination of piracy and forgery that ever occurred in the literary world'."
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Gaius Julius Caesar's The Commentaries
- Item The Commentaries
- Author Gaius Julius Caesar, edited by Samuel Clarke
- Published 1712
- Price Est. $7,000–9,000
This copy includes a double-page engraved title; portraits of the Duke of Marlborough and Caesar; six double-page engraved maps; 78 plates, most of which are also double-page; and numerous engraved headpieces, tailpieces, and initials. "This work was considered by Lowndes to be 'The most sumptuous classical work which this country has produced'," Brink said. "It also includes a complete double-page plate of the the wild bull."
John Ashbery's The Poems
- Item The Poems
- Author John Ashbery
- Illustrator Joan Mitchell, Frank O'Hara, Michael Goldman, and more.
- Published 1960
- Price Est. $4,000–6,000
"This outstanding and important post-war American artist book features collaborations between four of the most influential American poets of the second half of the twentieth century and four important second-generation New York School artists," said Christopher D. Brink, Fine Books and Manuscripts Specialist at Potter & Potter Auctions. "According to the prospectus, the collaborators all 'lived in New York City where they knew one another well for a number of years and followed one another's work with involved interest. Tiber Press left the choice of partners in this project to the individuals themselves, and, in collaborating, the poet and painter were acknowledging an awareness of some real relationship between their work"
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Walker Evans's American Photographs
- Item American Photographs
- Author Walker Evans
- Published 1938
- Price Est. $1,500–2,500
This very fine first edition, first printing is one of only 5,000 copies and is rarely seen in this condition. "This is considered to be one of the foremost American photography books and the first to be devoted to the work of a single photographer," Brink said.
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