  • <b>Bonhams 28 Oct 2014:</b> The Gemini Collection of Modern Prints and Illustrated Books.
    <b>Bonhams 28 Oct 2014:</b> Lot 48. CHAGALL, MARC. 1887-1985.<br>Est. US$ 300,000-500,000.
    <b>Bonhams 28 Oct 2014:</b> Lot 59. DALI, SALVADOR. SPANISH, 1904-1989. OVID. Est. US$ 8,000-12,000.
    <b>Bonhams 28 Oct 2014:</b> Lot 85. GANYMED. MEIER-GRAEFE, JULIUS, editor. Est. US$ 10,000-15,000.
    <b>Bonhams 28 Oct 2014:</b> Lot 112. MIRÓ, JOAN. SPANISH, 1893-1983. ÉLUARD, PAUL. À toute épreuve.<br>Est. US$ 35,000-55,000.
    <b>Bonhams 22 Oct 2014:</b> Lot 48. KEPLER, JOHANNES. 1571-1630.<br>Est. US$ 25,000-35,000.
    <b>Bonhams 22 Oct 2014:</b> Lot 58. RITCHEY, GEORGE WILLIS. 1864-1945. Est. US$ 450,000-550,000.
    <b>Bonhams 22 Oct 2014:</b> Lot 74. WALLICH, NATHANIEL. 1786-1854. Est. US$ 35,000-55,000.
    <b>Bonhams 22 Oct 2014:</b> Lot 80. DARWIN, CHARLES. 1809-1882. Autograph Letter Signed ("C. Darwin"). Est. US$ 20,000-30,000.
    <b>Bonhams 22 October 2014:</b><br>HISTORY OF SCIENCE.
    <b>Bonhams 22 Oct 2014:</b> Lot 245. HELMHOLTZ SOUND SYNTHESIZER. HELMHOLTZ, HERMANN VON. 1821-1894. Est. US$ 20,000-30,000.
    <b>Bonhams 22 Oct 2014:</b> Lot 262. MANHATTAN PROJECT VIEWING WINDOW. Heavily leaded glass.<br>Est. US$ 150,000-250,000.
    <b>Bonhams 22 Oct 2014:</b> Lot 271. WOVEN SILK PORTRAIT OF JACQUARD. Est. US$ 20,000-30,000.
    <b>Bonhams 22 Oct 2014:</b> Lot 286. APPLE. Apple 1 Motherboard.<br>Est. US$ 300,000-500,000.
  • <b>Archives International October 25 AIA XXI Wall Street Auction Oct-Nov 2014.</b> Sale starts at 10:30 am EST.
    <b>Archives International Oct 25:</b> Lot 15. [Gold Rush] The way they go to California. Est. $2,000-$4,000
    <b>Archives International Oct 25:</b> Lot 24. Missouri Gazette, Tuesday 26, 11808, St. Louis, Louisiana.<br>Est. $400 to $800
    <b>Archives International Oct 25:</b> Lot 73. San Francisco City Stock, 1851 Gold Rush Era Bond. Est. $100-200
    <b>Archives International Oct 25:</b> Lot 334. Lake Ontario, Auburn and New York Railroad Company Stock Certificate – Subscription Agreement. Est. $100 to $200
    <b>Archives International Oct 25:</b> Lot 444. Early Pennsylvania Turnpike Trio ca. 1811 to 1864. Est. $130 to 260
    <b>Archives International November 4 AIA XXI Wall Street Auction Oct-Nov 2014.</b> Sale starts at 10:30 am EST.
    <b>Archives International Nov 4:</b> Lot 950. South Carolina 1778 Colonial Note. Est. $700 to $1,000
    <b>Archives International Nov 4:</b> Lot 951. Virginia Colonial Note, $50 BP15], Fr#VA-162, October 5, 1778, S/N 8633. Est. $200 to $400
    <b>Archives International Nov 4:</b> Lot 952. State of Massachusetts, April 1, 1779 State Lottery Bond.<br> Est. $250 to $500
    <b>Archives International Nov 4:</b> Lot 953. State of Massachusetts, February 5, 1780 State Lottery Bond.<br> Est. $250 to $500
    <b>Archives International Nov 4:</b> Lot 954. Uncut Sheet of East Haddam Obsoletes Higher Denominations.. Est. $150 to $300
    <b>Archives International November 4 AIA XXI Wall Street Auction Oct-Nov 2014.</b> Sale starts at 10:30 am EST.
    <b>Archives International Nov 4:</b> Lot 956. Jasper County, By Order of the Inferior Court, 1862 Obsolete Scrip Note. Est. $100 to $200
    <b>Archives International Nov 4:</b> Lot 963. Kidd’s Purchase Scrip Note Sheet from MD. Est. $400 to $800
    <b>Archives International Nov 4:</b> Lot 966. National Base Ball League, ca. 1880’sAdvertising Note from Minnesota. Est, $800 to $1,600
    <b>Archives International Nov 4:</b> Lot 973. Important Historical Vignette. NY. New York. Nassau Bank. $1. Proof on card. Est. $600 to $1,200
    <b>Archives International Nov 4:</b> Lot 974. Inverted Back Error. F.R.N., Chicago, $10, 1934A, Fr.#2006-G [GA Block]. Est. $1,250 to $2,000
  • <b>Bid now! Auction Ends October 29th.</b>
    <b>Ends Oct 29th oakauctions.com:</b> Daniel Boone autograph. Boon confirms receipt of payment for surveying work. Min Bid $500.
    <b>Ends Oct 29th oakauctions.com:</b> CROCKETT, David (1786-1836). Autograph free frank ("Free D. Crockett") on envelope.<br>Min Bid $500.
    <b>Ends Oct 29th oakauctions.com:</b> James K. Polk Signed "Executive Documents". Min Bid $500.
    <b>Ends Oct 29th oakauctions.com:</b> James Buchanan, Rare Signed Constitutional Law Book.<br>Min Bid $500.
    <b>Ends Oct 29th oakauctions.com:</b> Rare Abraham Lincoln 1841 Legal Document. "Sangamon Circuit Court", dated March 11, 1841. Min Bid $300.
    <b>Bid now! Auction Ends October 29th.</b>
    <b>Ends Oct 29th oakauctions.com:</b> William Mckinley 25th President of the U.S. Historic Signed Photo.<br>Min Bid $200.
    <b>Ends Oct 29th oakauctions.com:</b> William Mckinley 25th President of the U.S. Signed book. Speaches and Addresses, 1894. Min Bid $250.
    <b>Ends Oct 29th oakauctions.com:</b> William Howard Taft 27th President of the U.S. "Ethics in Service", inscribed 1921. Min Bid $250.
    <b>Ends Oct 29th oakauctions.com:</b> John F. Kennedy 35th President of the U.S. Signed image. Min Bid $200.
    <b>Ends Oct 29th oakauctions.com:</b> Historical Oliver Hazard Perry ALS "We Have Defeated The Enemy Completely..." 1812. Min Bid $500.
    <b>Bid now! Auction Ends October 29th.</b>
    <b>Ends Oct 29th oakauctions.com:</b> Certificate of Discharge Edward J. Smith. English naval officer (1850-1912) in command of the RMS Titanic. Min Bid $400.
    <b>Ends Oct 29th oakauctions.com:</b> Charles Dickens Author Letter Signed and Original Photo. Min Bid $400.
    <b>Ends Oct 29th oakauctions.com:</b> Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs. Important Disney original comic art work from this 1937 classic.<br>Min Bid $500.
    <b>Ends Oct 29th oakauctions.com:</b> Signed Certificate for Heroism Rescue for the Akron search and<br>Air Ship AJ3. Min Bid $300.
    <b>Ends Oct 29th oakauctions.com:</b> 1986 STS-51L CHRISTA MCAULIFFE and BARBARA MORGAN SIGNED DISPLAY. Min Bid $400.
    <b>Ends Oct 29th oakauctions.com:</b> 1951 World Series New York Yankees Team Signed Baseball. Featuring the 1951 Bronx Bombers. Min Bid $200.
  • <b>19th Century Shop</b>. 30th anniversary catalogue of landmark rare books, autographs and manuscripts, and historical photographs of all ages.
    <b>19th Century Shop</b>. Abraham Lincoln, "a previously unknown portrait of exceptional quality." From the collection of John Hay.
    <b>19th Century Shop</b>. <i>The Federalist</i> (1788). An important association copy in original boards, untrimmed.
    <b>19th Century Shop</b>. Isaac Newton. <i>Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica</i> (1687).
    <b>19th Century Shop</b>. Shakespeare's <i>Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies</i> (1632).
    <b>19th Century Shop</b>. John Rockefeller. Ambrotype, the earliest known photograph of Rockefeller.
    <b>19th Century Shop</b>. Muybridge, <i>Animal Locomotion</i> (1887) subscriber's copy.

AE Monthly

Book Catalogue Reviews - June - 2014 Issue

Material from the Olympia Fair Offered by Samuel Gedge Ltd.

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Material from the Olympia Fair.

Samuel Gedge Ltd. Rare Books issued a catalogue for the recently concluded Olympia Book Fair 2014. Gedge offers a selection of books, manuscripts and ephemera, most quite old - 16th-19th century. Many are handwritten or partly printed documents concerning activities of another time. Most are in English, though continental languages can also be found. These are a few samples of the material that made their way to London for the recent Fair.

 

We start with a naval pass signed by two important people. It is issued for the Hope of London, a 58-ton vessel operated by four men. It applied to a single voyage in 1828. One signatory is Lord High Admiral John Barrow. Barrow had traveled through southern Africa, but he is more closely associated with the Arctic regions. He ardently promoted exploration of these northern areas during his tenure at the Admiralty. Several places, including the northern most community in the United States, Barrow, Alaska, are named for him. The second signature is that of the Duke of Clarence. The Duke was not expected to be much more than another royal, he being the third son of George III, but when both of his older brothers died without legitimate issue, he ascended to the thrown at the age of 64. He was, and still is, the oldest person to ascend to the British crown. He took the name William IV. His reign began two years after he signed this document, in 1830, and lasted until his death in 1837. Item 11. Priced at £750 (British pounds, roughly $1,260 U.S. dollars).

 

Item 69 is another document signed by a future king, though a current one as well. This signature is that of James VI, King of Scotland. It is dated 1602. James would take on the more significant role of King James I of England as well the following year, when Elizabeth I's long rule finally came to an end. This document is a letter of safe passage, to last for a term of 7 years, issued to Sir John Vans of Barnbarroch and a “friend in company.” Vans was the son of diplomat Patrick Vans, and many years earlier had been appointed as a “Gentleman of the Bedchamber” to James VI. He would later serve as an MP. Evidently, he was a favorite of James, opening the possibility that this trip, whose purpose is not known, may have been some sort of diplomatic mission. At the time, James wanted to prepare continental princes for his plans of ascending to the thrown. £3,500 (US $5,884).

 

Item 102 is Beschreibung einer neuen Gronlandischen Thierpflanze. This is the 1753 first edition of a book that would later be issued in English under the title “An account of a new zoophyte, or animal plant, from Greenland...” An English whaler had dredged up a couple of the unusual specimens, one of which made its way to the author, Christlob Mylius. Mylius was an 18th century German naturalist and journalist specializing in scientific topics. The unusual creature would not be spotted again for over a century. Today, we know this unusual creature as a crinoid, or “sea lily.” The confusion was natural, as these are animals, but look remarkably like plants, flowers specifically, their limbs resembling petals. £750 (US $1,260).

 

Back in the days when no one had any idea how to cure most illnesses, one of the favorite “cures” was medicinal springs. Wherever water flowed from the ground, some entrepreneur would discover the curative powers of those waters and soon money would flow like the water. Item 105 is A full relation concerning the wonderfull and wholesome fountain. At first discovered in Germany, two miles from the city of Halberstadt, by a certain youth upon the fifth of March1646. as he was coming home from school. This pamphlet was published in the same year as the “discovery,” and undoubtedly was intended to lure English sufferers to these German springs. It promised cures for all sorts of diseases, noting that 5,000 people were already visiting the spot from all over Germany. It included a prayer to be recited at the springs, and then 215 examples of people who had been cured. “A childe of Barby, which had crooked heeles, so that they went inward, were made straight againe...” Water did that? Amazing. A deaf and dumb “girle,” a deaf soldier, were among the others cured. £1,250 (US $2,087).

 

Item 62 is the will of George Glover, of Deptford, county Kent, dated March 10, 1654. Glover was going on a dangerous journey, “now bounde fforth in a perilous voyage to the East India beyond the seas...” No wonder he saw a need to make a will. The will mentioned property he owned, and appointed his wife, Elizabeth, as executrix. It is likely Glover was headed to the East Indies to work for the East India Company, as they needed skilled shipwrights to repair ships that were constantly being damaged. And it also clear that Glover needed a will, as this document is accompanied by another proving the will, dated October 7, 1656, and signed off by two judges. Glover lost his gamble on this job. £450 (US $751).

 

Samuel Gedge Ltd. Rare Books may be reached at +44 (0)1263 768 471 or rarebooks@samuelgedge.com. Their website is www.samuelgedge.com

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