PBA Galleries – October 29 – 11am
Sale 572
Rare Cartography, Exploration & Voyages: The Warren Heckrotte Collection, Part One Exploration & Early Approaches
Among the highlights:
Aaron Arrowsmith's Atlas to Thompson's Alcedo; or Dictionary of America & West Indies, 1816, with five important wall maps, on 19 sheets, colored in outline, bound in marbled boards. Estimate: $30,000-$50,000.
Rare first edition of Gavrilla Andreevich Sarychev's account of the Billings expedition to explore the north Pacific and part of the American continent, 1802, complete with the desirable and important atlas volume. Estimate: $30,000-$50,000.
First issue of Gerhard Friedrich Müller's very rare and important map, Nouvelle Cartes Des Decouvertes Faites Par Des Vaisseaux Russes Aux Côtes Inconnues De L'Amerique Septentrionale, 1754, presenting the discoveries made by the second Bering expedition. Estimate: $20,000-$30,000.
A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World, by George Vancouver, 1798, the first edition complete in three quarto volumes and the folio atlas of charts and coastal views. Estimate: $25,000-$35,0000.
The first printed map to show San Francisco, Miguel Costansó's Carta Reducida Del Oceano Asiatico, Ó Mar Del Sur, 1771, showing the West Coast from south of Baja California to Cape Blanco, of great rarity. Estimate: $20,000-$30,000.
A Map Exhibiting all the New Discoveries in the Interior Parts of North America by Aaron Arrowsmith, 1802, one of a series of maps by Arrowsmith in the sale, this one of grave importance as being the rare issue taken by Lewis and Clark on their immortal trek across the continent. Estimate: $20,000-$30,000.
Remarks in Support of the New Chart of North and South America, by John Green, the first edition, 1753, both the text and the large six-sheet map bound in contemporary morocco stamped with the arms of a Portuguese marquis, extremely rare and important. Estimate: $20,000-$30,000.
Cornelius Wytfliet's Histoire Universelle des Indes Occidentales…, 1605, the French language edition of the first atlas of America, with an important and influential series of engraved maps. Estimate: $15,000-$20,000.
The exceedingly rare first state of Nicolas Sanson's Amerique Septentrionale, 1650, one of only two copies known of this state of the seminal map of North America, the first printed map to delineate the five Great Lakes in a recognizable form. Estimate: $10,000-$15,000.
Each lot illustrated in the online version of the catalogue.
Bid directly from the site. Now available in the Bid Live Now section
Built over a span of more than fifty years, the superb Warren Heckrotte Collection of Rare Cartography, Exploration and Voyages features rare and important landmarks in the exploration of the Americas, particularly the Pacific slope and the northwest coast. Part One concentrates on the time from the beginning of the mapping of the New World through the epic discoveries of Lewis and Clark. Included are maps and printed books of great rarity and import, many of which are seldom on the market.
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Fine Press Book Fair
The U.K. Fine Press Book Fair will be held on 31st October (11am – 6pm) and 1st November (10am – 5pm) at Oxford Brookes University, Main Hall, Gipsy Lane, Oxford OX3 OBP. Some parking is available at the campus and more plentifully at the Headington Hill Hall site which is no more than a few hundred yards away.
This is a large biennial event organised by the PBFA in conjunction with the Fine Press Book Association. The fair began in this format in 1999 and has become a major international event in the private press world. There will be about 100 exhibitors including private presses from many countries (nearly all the currently working U.K. presses plus others from America, Canada, Chile, Russia, Germany, Holland, Italy, Scandinavia etc.). Also specialist private press booksellers, societies and trade suppliers showing papers, marbling, bindings, leathers, type etc.
Admission is £5 which covers the weekend and includes a substantial catalogue and access to a programme of lectures on the Sunday. The 2015 lecturers are Joe Pearson on Noel Carrington, Sebastian Carter and Alice Ford-Smith on Rampant Lions Press and the Fine Book Bindery, and Alan Powers on 20th century printing journals. Various awards and prizes will be given on the Sunday at 1pm and will include an anonymously donated cash award in honour of the late Toby English. The 2015 fair is being managed by Michael Taylor.
Further information concerning the fair is available on the websites of both the PBFA and the Fine Press Book Association.
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Ottawa Antiquarian Book Fair
The Thirty-Fifth annual Ottawa Antiquarian Book Fair will take place on Sunday, October 18th, 2015, at Tudor Hall, 3750 North Bowesville Road (near Hunt Club and Riverside Drive), Ottawa, Ontario, from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Dealers from Quebec and Ontario will present a wide array of books and ephemera, and there's lots of free parking.
Info at: www.ottawabookfair.com
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1477 Nuremburg Vulgate & 1551 Vesalian Piracy in German
in Swann Galleries' October 27 Sale of Early Printed & medical Books
New York: On October 27, 2015, Swann Galleries' Books & Manuscripts department will offer Early Printed & Medical Books, featuring Bibles, incunabula, early grammars and dictionaries of exotic languages, and works on missionary travel and Eastern Church history and liturgy, chiefly from the Library of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
Bible highlights include a 1477 edition of the Vulgate printed in Nuremberg ($10,000 to $15,000); and a first edition of the Roman Catholic version of the New Testament in English, The New Testament Faithfully Translated into English, Rheims, 1582 ($6,000 to $9,000). Other religious items of note are a vellum manuscript of the winter portion of the Breviarium Romanum, Italy, 14th century ($8,000 to $12,000), and St. Antoninus Florentinus's Summa Theologica, Venice, 1474-81 ($6,000 to $9,000).
A section of linguistic works includes some of the earliest grammars and dictionaries of non-European languages to appear in Europe, such as Athanasius Kircher's Prodromus Coptus sive Aegyptiacus, the first European grammar of Coptic, Rome, 1636 ($800 to $1,200).
Noteworthy among the travel books is Antonio Agostino Giorgi's Alphabetum Tibetanum missionum apostolicarum commodo editum, Rome, 1762, the most extensive 18th-century European book on Tibet, containing descriptions of its religion, geography, customs and more, based on reports by Capuchin missionaries ($3,000 to $5,000). Other titles of Asian interest are a first edition of Juan González de Mendoza's Historia de las Cosas mas notables, Ritos y Costumbres, del gran Reyno del China, Rome, 1585, a standard work of its time on China ($1,500 to $2,500); and a first edition of Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn'Arabshah's Vitae et rerum gestarum Timuri, qui vulgo Tamerlanes dicitur, historia, Leiden, 1636, a biography in Arabic of the 14th-century Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur ($1,500 to $2,500).
Literary highlights include a Fourth Folio of William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, London, 1685 ($8,000 to $12,000); a first edition of Sir William Davenant's adaptation of Macbeth, London, 1674 ($2,000 to $3,000); and a first edition in Italian of Dante Alighieri's De la Volgare Eloquenzia, advocating the literary use of the Italian vernacular, Vicenza, 1529 ($2,000 to $3,000).
The medical portion of the sale comes in part from the Stanton A. Freidberg, M.D. Rare Book Collection of Rush University Medical Center at the University of Chicago. The top lots are a first edition of Anatomia Deudsch, an unauthorized German translation of Andreas Vesalius's Epitome, Nuremberg, 1551 ($15,000 to $25,000); and a first edition, second issue, of Robert Hooke's influential Micrographia, the first book devoted to entirely to microscopic observations, London, 1667 ($12,000 to $18,000). Other notable items are first editions of Govert Bidloo's Anatomia humani corporis, Amsterdam, 1685, with 105 anatomical plates after Gerard de Lairesse ($4,000 to $6,000); Antonio Scarpa's Sull'Aneurisma, Pavia, 1804 ($2,000 to $3,000); and Hippolyt Guarinoni's Die Grewel der Verwüstung menschlichen Geschlechts, Ingolstadt, 1610 ($1,500 to $2,500), a huge treatise on the maintenance of spiritual and physical health, with a section on exercise containing the description of a distant forerunner of baseball.
The auction preview will be open to the public, with an exhibition opening October 23 from 10a.m. to 6p.m.; October 24 from noon to 5p.m.; October 26 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and October 27 from 10 a.m. to noon.
An illustrated auction catalogue will be available for $35 from Swann Galleries, Inc., 104 East 25th Street, New York, NY 10010, or online at www.swanngalleries.com.
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