Books, Maps & Prints 2021

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Interview: new ABA president Pom Harrington page 6-7

Geopolitical maps value messages over accuracy page 8-10

Beauty of the livre d’artiste page 12-15

Letters on a military theme page 16-18

Auction previews page 24-30

Photo: Christie’s - Max Ernst’s Maximiliana Modern prints in the spotlight page 32-36

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E E R 50years D V A I R IN ASSOCIATION WITH N T G T H E Books, Maps & Prints 2021 Sponsor’s message Onwards, upwards and new frontiers Forum Auctions’ Rupert Powell celebrates the easing of lockdown – and the rm’s fth anniversary

Welcome to the sixth annual supplement produced by Antiques Trade Gazette showcasing the world of rare With selling rates in books and works on paper. excess of 90%, the These past 12 months have “ undoubtedly been the most ‘timed online’ sale challenging period in so many of format pioneered by our lives; indeed, it remains the Forum in 2016 is now case that the tragedy of Covid continues to blight so many regions the work horse of our of the world. However, and in the sales calendar spirit of optimism, I look forward to the months ahead with a growing ranging from the David Beazley condence that we in the UK appear Collection of Angling Prints to to be emerging from the worst. a fascinating selection of space On the whole, the book world photography from the renowned seems to have coped remarkably Stephen White Space Collection. well with the diculties imposed by I am equally excited at the lockdowns, social distancing and expectation that our landmark other necessary restrictions. ‘traditional’ live sales will be Nascent ‘virtual’ bookfairs emerging from behind closed doors alongside ‘behind closed doors’ and and returning to The Westbury ‘online only’ auctions have thrived Hotel from July, and it is tting that and expanded audiences. Certainly, our 250th auction falls on the fth we at Forum have observed a anniversary of our rst such event in considerable increase in rst-time July 2016. buyers utilising some of their new- Above: only pollo 17, the final pollo mission, saw the Earth fully illuminated and A highlight amidst our rich found spare time to discover the joys largely free of cloud. This photo, known as The Blue Marble, has become one of the most calendar of forthcoming sales is an of book collecting. reproduced in history. The dye-transfer print, number 18 from an edition of 250 made from immaculate single-owner collection I dare say another silver lining the original transparency at ohnson pace Center in 1992, has a guide of £2000-3000 as of inscribed and association copies emerging from recent experiences part of the tephen hite pace Collection that will be sold online on une 10. of modern literary treasures. has been the streamlining of client I, for one, cannot wait to be services and improvements in Below: this exceptional first edition of Christopher Isherwoods All the Conspirators (1928) is a raising my gavel again to an post-sale fullment. I can almost signed presentation copy from the author to raham reene and comes with two autograph audience of room bidders in imagine a time when successful letters. It forms part of a sale titled igned and Inscribed entlemans Library of Modern preference to the impersonality of bidders are delivered purchases by a Literature at orum uctions on uly 7. Estimate £6000-8000. the video camera transmitting into daily release of squadrons of carrier the ether. drones from our rooftop! I feel it is fair to observe that the As I reect on our trading pandemic has not compromised highlights of the past ve years, many our enduring aim to oer buyers of which feature in this supplement, it and sellers alike the optimum is striking how much the market has platform, service and experience for changed. The eciency and apparent handling the sale at auction of books ease with which my colleagues and all other works on paper. As plough through the cataloguing and ever, we warmly welcome hearing illustration of our near-weekly online from our established clients, and I sales disguises the detailed attention enthusiastically oer my assurance that ensures our presentation of lots to those readers who have not yet is consistent, regardless of whether dealt with us of our unfailing focus a £100 mixed lot or a £100,000 on fullling any requests made of us masterpiece. to the very best standards. With selling rates in excess I end by making the cheery of 90% and realisations always observation that the seemingly exceeding mid-estimates, the ‘timed universal consensus among online’ sale format pioneered by economic commentators predicting Forum in 2016 is now the work horse a post-lockdown consumer-spending of our sales calendar. spree will benet our niche world as Looking ahead to the summer I much as the wider economy over the am equally struck by the diversity coming months. of properties we are preparing Very best wishes for the summer. for auction. Alongside the mixed disciplines of our weekly timed Rupert Powell, deputy chairman and auctions are single-owner entries head of books, Forum Auctions 2 | 15 May 2021 | BOOKS, MAPS & PRINTS antiquestradegazette.com Books, Maps & Prints 2021 News Spitting image: Napoleon mocked London gallery devotes catalogue to items from the era to mark bicentenary of his death

by Gabriel Berner

May 5, 2021, marked the 200th anniversary of the death of Napoleon, who breathed his last on the remote British-held island of St Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. To mark the bicentenary, Grosvenor Prints, London specialist in antique prints from the 17th-early 20th centuries, has dedicated its latest catalogue to Napoleonic items. Broadsides, posters, and of course prints, including satirical works, portraits of Napoleon and battle scenes, are among the 420 items for sale. French feast Priced at £360, this coloured British satirical cartoon etching shown here depicts Napoleon on a spit rotated by a Westphalian bear, while the Russian General Levin August von Bennigsen (a German) bastes him with a ladle. Captioned Polish Diet with French Desert, it was created by William Elmes (active 1804-16) after the Russian defeat of Joachim Murat’s Above: British satirical French at the Battle of Tarutino on cartoon, Polish Diet with October 18, 1812 and the French French Desert, by William retreat from Moscow. ■ This coloured British satirical Elmes – priced £360 at grosvenorprints.com “cartoon depicts Napoleon on a spit Grosvenor Prints.

The badges of the Three booksellers’ associations antiquarian booksellers’ associations of Switzerland (below left), Austria (right) open new digital chapter and Germany.

The antiquarian booksellers’ Daniel Crouch Rare Books and associations of Switzerland, Austria Peter Harrington Rare Books – and Germany have joined forces to and in the US, Netherlands, Belgium launch a new online rare and Israel, as well as dealers from book fair. Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The three German-speaking associations say the online initiative, called Folium Digital, allows them to Fresh approach “bundle their resources and reach “This response shows that our out to collectors and the trade in a approach of oering digital fairs and new format”. thus providing dealers and above all The fair platform, which is collectors and institutions with their trade since the beginning of the Twenty vision bilingual in German and English, own trading platforms has been well Covid pandemic. Collectors and The ¦rst Folium Digital fair starts on also oers exhibitors and visitors received,” said Sibylle Wieduwilt, dealers ¦nd each other and the books June 10 and runs online until June 12. from non-German-speaking regions president of the German antiquarian at virtual fairs. All participating antiquarian and countries the opportunity to booksellers’ association, VDA. “We want to remain positive and bookshops and galleries can display participate. Michael Steinbach, president of set new impulses in these di§cult up to 20 objects each and illustrate The event has already received the Austrian association VDAÖ, times and try in this way to open up them with up to 10 photos – see the registrations from dealers in the UK added: “Virtual fairs have dominated the world of beautiful and rare books website below. – including Shapero Rare Books, the international antiquarian book to an even larger audience.” folium.digital antiquestradegazette.com BOOKS, MAPS & PRINTS | 15 May 2021 | 3 Binding.- Bible, Greek.- Privateers in the Caribbean & Bristol merchants.- Arabic manuscript.- Darwin (Charles) The Rothamsted Collection: Rarities from The Birmingham Assay Office Library, 457 lots Selected Books from Rugby School Library, 299 lots Newton (Sir Isaac) Tes Kaines Diathekes Apanta; Nouum... An outstanding archive of printed and manuscript material Qu’ran Scroll, Autograph Letter signed to illiam the Lawes Agricultural Library, 817 lots Total hammer: £750,000, March 2020 Total hammer: £620,000, November 2020 Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Testamentum, of the 18th and early 19th centuries relating to Privateers, purported to have once been displayed above Shah Lonsdale, [1839]. Total hammer: £1,750,000, July 2018 (White Glove Sale) (White Glove Sale) Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light, magnificent early 17th century red Bristol merchants and shipping, and shipping insurance, Jahan’s Peacock Throne, extending to over 16 metres, Est. £4,000-6,000* (White Glove Sale) first edition, presentation copy to Nicolas morocco fanfare binding for Sir Kenelm c.1750-1830. ndia [probably Delhi], [first uarter 17th century]. Fatio de Duillier and with his ink and Digby, Paris, Robert Estienne, 1550. Est. £25,000-35,000* Est. £3,000-5,000* pencil annotations, 1704. Est. £4,000-6,000* Hammer: £155,000, June 2020

Hamilton (Alexander) Madison (James) Virgilius Maro (Publius) The Edge Hall Library, 311 lots [Brontë (Emily and Anne)]. Italy.- Neapolitan School Chaucer (Georey) Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) Hemingway (Ernest) and John Jay. [Opera], Total hammer: £560,000, October 2017 Wuthering Heights; Agnes Grey, The Woorkes, Napoli, The Story of Sigurd the Volsung, In Our Time, The Federalist; a Collection of Essays written Aldus Manutius, Venice, 1501. (White Glove Sale) together 3 vol., first editions, 1847. fifth collected edition, by [Bird’s-eye panoramic view of the Port of Naples], 1898. number 90 of 170 copies, Paris, in favour of the new Constitution, Hammer: £90,000, September 2016 Hammer: £65,000, July 2017 tempera on canvas, [c. 1714-1735]. Jhon Kyngston, for Jhon Est. £5,000-7,000* Three Mountains Press, 1924. 2 vol., first edition, printed on thick paper, Est. £30,000-40,000* ight, 1561. Est. £15,000-20,000* New York, 1788. Est. £6,000-8,000* Hammer: £130,000, March 2021

ieer (Ren, binder).- Louys (Pierre) Shakespeare Head Press.- Shakespeare (William) American Revolution.- Faden (William) New South Wales convict artist.- Catlin (George, 1796-1872) Bouchette (Lt.-Col. Joseph, Canadian Surveyor- Tetley (Joseph Swabey), attributed to. Selected 16th and 17th century Aphrodite. Moeurs Antiques, The Works..., Battle of Brandywine in which the Browne (Richard) Wah-ro-née-sah, The Surrounder, General of British North America, 1774-1841) An Album of 12 drawings of Australian English books from the Fox Pointe one of 4 copies, original watercolours by 10 vol., one of 12 sets on vellum, Stratford-on-Avon, 1904-06. Rebels were defeated, Memora, Chief of the Tribe, A Plan of the Province of Upper Canada, Aborigines, Manor Library, Parts I & II, 567 lots Malassis Giraldon, magnificent mosaic Est. £20,000-30,000* engraving, 1778. watercolour, [c. 1817-1820]. watercolour, [circa 1832]. manuscript map with decorative title cartouche, [c. 1806]. Total hammer: £1,030,000, July 2019 binding, 1910. Est. £3,000-5,000* Est. £25,000-35,000* Hammer: £89,000, March 2019 [circa 1790-1795]. Hammer: £72,000, June 2020 & September 2020 Est. £15,000-20,000* Hammer: £34,000, May 2019

Purchas (Samuel) Ford (Richard).- Franco (Pierre) DNA.- Watson (James D.) Ptolomaeus (Claudius) Pasternak (Boris) Book of Hours.- Use of Rouen, Tolkien (J.R.R.) Purchas his Pilgrimes, A fine collection of Autograph Letters signed, correspondence and Petit traité, contenant une des parties Superb collection of autograph and signed Cosmographia, Doktor Zhivago, manuscript on vellum, in Latin and The Hobbit, 5 vol. first edition, Narcissus printed books, a sketchbook of watercolours, most relating to Ford’s principales de chirurgie, material relating to the discovery of the first edition, Vicenza, Hermann Liechtenstein, 2 vol., original typescript with manuscript corrections and French, illuminated with 14 full-page first edition, first impression, 1937. Luttrell’s copy, 1625-26. Spanish and art interests, many bound in Spanish calf, 1821-66. first edition, Lyon, Antoine double Helix structure of DNA, 1953-2004. 13 September 1475. insertions by the author, the George Katkov copy, [c.1956]. miniatures by the workshop or follower Hammer: £35,000, May 2018 Est. £30,000-40,000* o be oered for sale as 1 lot, and if reserve not met, to be Vincent, [1556]. Est. £10,000-15,000* Hammer: £185,000, July 2020 Hammer: £110,000, May 2018 of the Maitre de l’Echevinage, Rouen, oered for sale in 27 subseuent lots. Est. £20,000-30,000* [1480s]. Est. £30,000-40,000* Hammer: £70,000, November 2019

Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper Five Years of Highlights at Forum Auctions Auction: Thursday 27th May, 11:00am | Conducted Live ‘Behind Closed Doors’ Just a few of the many highlights from our 250 auctions and 50,000 sold lots of the past 5 years. If you have Bidding and information: [email protected] | +44 (0) 20 7871 2640 anything to consign, from individual books to entire libraries, we would be delighted to hear from you.

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Binding.- Bible, Greek.- Privateers in the Caribbean & Bristol merchants.- Arabic manuscript.- Darwin (Charles) The Rothamsted Collection: Rarities from The Birmingham Assay Office Library, 457 lots Selected Books from Rugby School Library, 299 lots Newton (Sir Isaac) Tes Kaines Diathekes Apanta; Nouum... An outstanding archive of printed and manuscript material Qu’ran Scroll, Autograph Letter signed to illiam the Lawes Agricultural Library, 817 lots Total hammer: £750,000, March 2020 Total hammer: £620,000, November 2020 Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Testamentum, of the 18th and early 19th centuries relating to Privateers, purported to have once been displayed above Shah Lonsdale, [1839]. Total hammer: £1,750,000, July 2018 (White Glove Sale) (White Glove Sale) Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light, magnificent early 17th century red Bristol merchants and shipping, and shipping insurance, Jahan’s Peacock Throne, extending to over 16 metres, Est. £4,000-6,000* (White Glove Sale) first edition, presentation copy to Nicolas morocco fanfare binding for Sir Kenelm c.1750-1830. ndia [probably Delhi], [first uarter 17th century]. Fatio de Duillier and with his ink and Digby, Paris, Robert Estienne, 1550. Est. £25,000-35,000* Est. £3,000-5,000* pencil annotations, 1704. Est. £4,000-6,000* Hammer: £155,000, June 2020

Hamilton (Alexander) Madison (James) Virgilius Maro (Publius) The Edge Hall Library, 311 lots [Brontë (Emily and Anne)]. Chaucer (Georey) Italy.- Neapolitan School Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) Hemingway (Ernest) and John Jay. [Opera], Total hammer: £560,000, October 2017 Wuthering Heights; Agnes Grey, The Woorkes, Napoli, The Story of Sigurd the Volsung, In Our Time, The Federalist; a Collection of Essays written Aldus Manutius, Venice, 1501. (White Glove Sale) together 3 vol., first editions, 1847. fifth collected edition, by [Bird’s-eye panoramic view of the Port of Naples], 1898. number 90 of 170 copies, Paris, in favour of the new Constitution, Hammer: £90,000, September 2016 Hammer: £65,000, July 2017 Jhon Kyngston, for Jhon tempera on canvas, [c. 1714-1735]. Est. £5,000-7,000* Three Mountains Press, 1924. 2 vol., first edition, printed on thick paper, ight, 1561. Est. £30,000-40,000* Est. £15,000-20,000* New York, 1788. Est. £6,000-8,000* Hammer: £130,000, March 2021

Books, Maps & Prints 2021 Interview ‘There are more book buyers out there than we realised’ An interview with new Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association president Pom Harrington

by Roland Arkell I think there are more book buyers Booksellers) is launching a new fairs, but there is a large gap in what and collectors out there than we Missing Books Register this summer. is required to gain entry to each realised. We are switching to this system. association. It will be a very hard The Antiquarian Booksellers’ issue to overcome. Association appointed a new Should we fear the decline of the face- hat sinle chane woul you like to council following its AGM in to-face transaction? make to the association? Antiuarian books manuscripts maps March. Deborah Coltham (Deborah I do not think so. Book collectors Expand the membership, to and prints are constantly traded across Coltham Rare Books) will serve as and dealers for the most part enjoy encourage all professional rare book international borers. s Breit makin vice-president and Daniel Crouch the social interaction with their dealers to join. We are adding a new this more ifficult (Daniel Crouch Rare Books) will fellow bibliophiles. In addition to trade-only book fair this summer, Certainly. Customs has become continue as treasurer, while taking physical events and bookstores, we improved online book fairs and increasingly complicated with over from Roger Treglown as the have now learnt how to conduct other initiatives that are helping the imports. Far too many books are association’s president is Pom video conferencing with new clients. association diversify its oerings. being wrongly hit with VAT charges. Harrington of Peter Harrington Rare This opens the world up quite a bit. There are more reasons to be a For export to the EU, now most Books. ATG sat down in a socially member these days. books will be charged the VAT of the distanced manner and asked him country they are being exported to. some questions. As chairman of the Firsts fair you Certainly not helpful; however, the champione some notable (sometimes processes are starting to get easier. A ow ifficult has train been controversial) initiatives: the move since the onset of the pandemic? Zoom interviews with rom lympia the renamin o the ou have sai beore that millennials will be the saviours o the book trae. Pom Harrington: Following a books being the air an the brinin toether o our strong end to 2019 and an optimistic “ events into a sinle week. As presient hat i you mean by that new year in January 2020, the background wallpaper o the ABA what bol iea woul you Millennials are being brought up world markets began to be unnerved show that they are still like the association to discuss? with the screen, whether it is reading by the emergence of Covid-19 in in fashion While I continue to hold the position social media on their phones or February 2020. The rst few weeks of chairman for Firsts, I believe now doing their work on their laptops. aected business and, of course, this I am president I want to see through They simply have less handling of continued into March. However, by these ideas that have been started. books. The upside is a large number spring we had adjusted to our work- What is the role of the ABA and how will The move to Saatchi Gallery is of them think books are cool and from-home schedule, with mail and you seek to inuence the irection o a bold one. The museum-quality unusual. You just have to watch the web orders running smoothly and travel at the association? space with three oors will produce a numerous Zoom interviews on TV subsequently we started to pick up There are several purposes of dierent style of book fair as opposed with books being the background pace once again. May was in fact a the Antiquarian Booksellers’ to one large room. wallpaper to see that books are still normal trading month and since then Association: to uphold and maintain Secondly, the introduction of in fashion. business has been excellent. good practices for the trade; to online fairs. This was a new idea we promote the interests of the trade; began working on a year ago and he proportion o women in the book he book trae was transorme by maintain good communications it continues to prove its worth. We trae can surely never have been the internet search enine. as Covi and links with other associations have since had four online fairs, each hiher. s this chanin the type o accentuated this? worldwide and organise book fairs one getting bigger. The Firsts Online merchanise that is bein sol I believe Covid has provided and events. platform, which we developed and Certainly, we are clearly seeing more collectors new-found time to spend There are two challenges we as own, is popular enough that we have interest in books written by and or with their collections, re-evaluate an association will face during the licensed the platform to other rare published by women. what they felt was missing and coming year: book associations in Canada and subsequently buy new items to ll 1. To reect on the changing Italy, as well as the Dutch Antique Can you arrest the raual ecline in in lacking areas. Furthermore, with nature of book fairs. Firsts London, Association. Now that the platform attenance at book airs time on their hands, new collectors the ABA’s annual premier rare book has established itself, I have asked I hope so! But it is up to us as have hit the web and as a business we fair, will be held at a new venue in others to keep developing it. booksellers to make ourselves as have seen an increase in this sort of October, Saatchi Gallery, and we are The trick will be how do we accessible as possible. The move to activity. Lastly, collectors who had continuing to develop our online fairs combine physical and online fairs Saatchi Gallery with its location and previously been shy about buying as they have been a great platform so they work together even after the broad reach of visitors is part of the online have been forced to use it. to keep our members and the trade pandemic. eort to address the decline. There is little doubt in my mind that engaging during the pandemic. this period has moved the market 2. Security. The improvement Are there iscussions to be hel aroun ow is the ABA helpin members forward. of registering missing books and the iea o a sinle trae association become more reen or eample encouraging the trade into the This question has come up over more sustainable packain hat one thin has the Covi era tauht practice of checking if books have the years and it continues to draw Our previous president Roger you an other booksellers about the been reported missing. ILAB debate. The PBFA is an excellent Treglown had this matter very trade that you didn’t previously know? (International League of Antiquarian association that organises very good high on his agenda and proposed 6 | 15 May 2021 | BOOKS, MAPS & PRINTS antiquestradegazette.com Pom Harrington started in the rare book trade after leaving school in 1994, working for the firm his father and uncle started in 1969. e took over the running of eter arrington Antiuarian ooks in 2000 and became owner and partner in 200. e is currently chairman of the Firsts fair and the new president of the Antiuarian ooksellers’ Association.

it to all international colleagues chanes in protocol woul you like to public very quickly that the theft it is quite often not possible. at the AGM of the International see – either within the trade or among had taken place, the list of stolen League of Antiquarian Booksellers institutions that own rare books that books was circulated and that made ow close are we to a sinle (ILAB) in 2019. Covid interrupted might improve the situation? selling them on an impossible task. comprehensive publicly accessible this initiative slightly but it will The formation of an international This turned out to be very helpful atabase o missin or stolen books be brought back on the table. In Missing Books Register by ILAB is in the capture of the thieves and the We are very close and aiming for this the meantime, there are several one part of the solution. The ABA recovery of the books. year. Anyone will have free access to initiatives by individual booksellers is then looking to work with IFLA most of the information ILAB holds. to help this. and the UK libraries to register Actively takin steps to rm up We cannot always release everything, We at Peter Harrington, for their missing books on that same provenance is a key role o any in case we prejudice an ongoing example, have now nally found register. 21st century bookseller. But are investigation, for instance, or when postage bags that are 100% Publicising the recovery of the histories of prior ownership reporting institutions have asked not recyclable and biodegradable. There stolen rare books is another great now reueste by some institutions to be publicly identi ed. In these is a plan to coordinate information deterrent. The reality is that to becomin unrealistic cases we have decided it’s better to and share among members to trade stolen books is now a very As books are not unique, in most have some details than none at all. encourage participation. dicult thing to do, and as long cases it is very dicult to be sure But ILAB will always answer as thieves know this, they will be of their historical ownership. A individual enquiries and help n the wake o more hih-prole book disinclined to target them. The desire to know the provenance is establish whether a suspected stolen thefts, issues of provenance and Heathrow robbery recovery is a understandable, and if possible, it book is the missing copy or another title are reularly iscusse. hat great example of that. It was made should be recorded, but as we know one altogether. ■ antiquestradegazette.com BOOKS, MAPS & PRINTS | 15 May 2021 | 7 Books, Maps & Prints 2021 Serio-comic and metamorphic maps The mapping of geopolitics A brief history of maps designed to communicate ideas over geographical accuracy by Richard Carroll

Cartographic representations of the Left: Pieter Van Den world have always been in ux. Keere’s Leo Belgicus… And, from Babylonian clay tablets, Arriciosa & eoraphica through Mercator’s revolutionary tabula sub eonis ura projection of the earth, to British a inferioris ermaniae naval hydrography and the modern- rovincias, engraving, day global positioning system, most 1617. Sold by Sotheby’s have typically followed a trajectory for $10,080 in December of geographic accuracy. 2020. However, maps have served other purposes too. Some were designed Above right: Johnson simply to communicate ideologies or Riddle & Co, ar ar shine a light on geopolitics. he Dos Do ar with The possibilities of pictorial maps note by Walter Emanuel, were rst explored in the medieval chromolithograph, 1914. period with the allegorical and Priced at £2400 by symbolic mappa mundi, which chose Altea Gallery. meaning above mathematics. Not intended as geographic aids, instead they were created to express truths, falsehoods and contemporary fears about the world they lived in. By 1537 Johannes Putsch had expanded on the genre to project a Habsburgian political reading of 16th century Europe with the rst anthropomorphic map. Reprinted by the German theologian Heinrich Bunting (1545-1606) as In Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae (1581), this famous image depicts Europe as a queen with Habsburg Spain shown pre- The possibilities of eminent as the head and crown and Bohemia at its heart. “pictorial maps were rst explored in the Leo Belgicus medieval period with The riposte from the Cologne engraver Michael von Aitzing in 1583 the allegorical and was a zoomorphic map that showed symbolic mappa the 17 provinces of the Netherlands mundi in the form of a lion. He cleverly used the contours of the North Sea coastline to create the spine of the lion – a symbol included in the heraldry of the provinces of the Wales as a jauntily dressed man, Dutch Republic and one that stood pint of ale in hand and riding a as a representation of the resistance monstrous sh; Scotland as a merry to the imperial rule of the Hapsburgs. hump-backed jester; and Ireland as The Leo Belgicus maps, published a woman in traditional dress playing up to the 19th century, pioneered the the Irish harp. generations of collectors – it hinted Above: Kisahuro Ohara, Serio introduction of national symbols and Most copies sell for around £500 at the arrival in the 19th century of omic ap of urope, or Octopus stereotypes into cartography. And but in June 2020 Forum Auctions the best-known examples of ‘serious- ap of urope and Asia, colour this concept, when taken up by the oered one of the original drawings comical’ or serio-comic mapping lithograph, 1904. Priced at £6000 brightest British minds, quickly led – that titled Geography Bewitched! or, a used to express nationalist sentiment by Daniel Crouch Rare Books. to satire. droll Caricature Map of Scotland. It sold and as a tool for propaganda. In the 1790s the caricature artist together with an engraving c.1796 for They proved the perfect vehicle Robert Dighton (1752-1814) produced £4550. for explaining the often complex his famous maps of the British Isles While Dighton’s manipulation was system of treaties and rivalries which titled Geography Bewitched! relatively light-hearted – and well- maintained the balance of power in The set portrays England and received by both his public and future Europe and Asia. 8 | 15 May 2021 | BOOKS, MAPS & PRINTS antiquestradegazette.com It was in the wake of the Crimean rag collector whose coat is made up (1849-1915), who took the attack on Top right: Heinrich Bunting, War that Parisian artist Paul Hadol of captured pieces of territory. The Russian expansionism to a new level Europa Prima Pars Terrae in Forma (1835-75) created A New Map Designed latest addition, Crimea, has just been in the late 1870s with his Octopus Map Virginis, woodcut c.1581. Priced at for 1870 – the dening template for sewn on; behind his cloak looms an of Europe. £3250 from Altea Gallery. the European serio-comic map. The army of wolves. Created by Rose (a 27-year-old Above left and right: Robert English edition satirises the tensions In a slightly later Italian junior clerk at the Inland Revenue) Dighton the Elder, an original that would shortly erupt into the map published in Bologna, the just two months after the outbreak of drawing for Geography Bewitched! Franco-Prussian War. It shows anonymous cartographer takes the the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78, it or, a droll Caricature Map of Britain as an old woman hiding much the same approach, depicting proved so popular (and the political Scotland, with engraving c.1796. her face from the rest of Europe, national stereotypes running amok situation changed so much) that it Part of a lot sold by Forum with Ireland, her rebellious lapdog, across the page. Russia is shown as was produced in at least ve variants Auctions for £4550 in June 2020. turning to snarl at her. a rabid moustached man baring his into the 20th century. However, more dominant than teeth and wielding a bloodied dagger. A version was printed in Farsi, the other satirical representations of Some of the most familiar and another was created for a Japanese European powers is the caricature popular serio-comic maps of the of Russia, depicted as a monstrous period were produced by Fred Rose Continued on page 10 antiquestradegazette.com BOOKS, MAPS & PRINTS | 15 May 2021 | 9 Books, Maps & Prints 2021 Serio-comic and metamorphic maps

The serio-comic map “proved fertile ground for political commentators deep into the 20th century

ontinued from pae audience by Kisahuro Ohara in 1904. All depict Russia as a giant black octopus, with tentacles going in all directions and seizing everything it can. The shift in European power that arrived with world war in 1914 was met by Walter Emanuel with Hark! Hark! The Dogs Do Bark!. The Great War is depicted as a dogght with the British bulldog, French poodle and Belgian grion on one side and the German dachshund and ‘Austrian mongrel’ on the other. The Russian bear is accompanied by Tsar Nicholas behind the wheel of a steamroller that is crushing the Austrian’s tail. Above: anonymous, uropa eoracoolitica, eduta A olo D Oca, engraving c.1871. Sold by Forum Auctions London map dealer Altea Gallery for £9750 in January 2021. has one in stock priced at £2400. The serio-comic map proved fertile ground for political map remains relevant today. commentators deep into the 20th For a more detailed discussion century – an eective way to of the topic, see Philip Curtis and communicate the rise of Bolshevism, Jakob Søndergård Pedersen’s War Nazi aggression or Cold-War Map. Pictorial Conict Maps 1900-1950 politics. And if many of the motifs (2016) and Ashley Baynton-Williams’ used in these centuries-old images The Curious Map Book (2015). ■ are familiar, that is because they continue to be recycled by today’s Richard Carroll is 16th to 19th century political cartoonists. works on paper specialist at Forum From the Blair-Bush alliance to In partnership with Auctions. the Trump-Putin era, the serio-comic

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When in 1900 the art dealer Ambroise Vollard published his rst book it caused a sensation. He’d commissioned a young Pierre Bonnard to provide the 109 sanguine chalk illustrations encircling the pages of Paul Verlaine’s Parallèlement, a series of poems that juxtaposed religious life with debauchery. It was not, as an outraged printer quickly discovered, a treatise on geometry. The 230 copies of Parallèlement were not just considered licentious. Lithography was not deemed an appropriate medium for book illustration and an upstart avant garde artist an unsuitable choice for a professional illustrator. Today Vollard’s experiment is often dubbed the rst modern artist’s book – or Right: leading Part I of the (the term rst used in The Studio Destribats collection sold magazine in 1960), the livre d’artiste. in July 2019 at Christie’s Drawing a start line isn’t in Paris was this 1936 first- easy. Books have contained art, edition copy of La Barre and artists have made books, d’appui, a volume of poems for generations. In France itself by Paul Eluard. This copy Delacroix had illustrated Faust is one of small number as early as 1828 while Manet had that include an extra provided lithographs for a translation engraving – an aquatint of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven in of Picasso’s right hand. 1875. Important too was the work Above: one of the 109 original pink lithographs by Pierre Bonnard that appear in The work soared past its of William Morris at the Kelmscott Paul Verlaine’s Parallèlement published by Ambroise Vollard in 1900. When the high estimate of €150,000 Press and that of the visionary artist director of the Imprimerie Nationale, the printers of Parallèlement, realised the to realise €532,000 and poet William Blake. content of the book, he ordered the 230 copies returned and a printer’s mark be (£425,000). However, in Parallèlement the replaced by an effigy of the rench epublic. genre as it developed in the 20th This well-preserved copy, with the title page surviving in both states, sold century began. for €30,000 (£27,200) as part of the library of Marc Litzler offered by Christie’s Championed by an art dealer Paris in ebruary 2019. interested in publishing rather than by a publisher interested in art, it contained original works of art produced for the project, it used traditional printing techniques, it illustrate it. Illustration is always a the continent and in Russia as was envisaged as a deluxe product, secondary matter. The important Europe plunged headlong into war. it was created in a signed and thing is that a book must have all As much as any medium, artist numbered limited edition and the the dignity of a sculpture carved in books mark key moments in the artist was given freedom of creativity marble.” Modern movement, from the Fauves’ to interpret the text. unleashing of colour, the Cubists’ The avant garde In this in particular the artist’s The important thing dismantling of form, the Futurists’ book diered from the tradition From the beginning, livres d’artistes celebration of dynamism, Dada’s of professional book illustration “is that a book must were tied to the avant garde. As the rejection of logic and reason and when – for example in the work of have all the dignity genre took hold in the creative milieu the Surrealists turning inward. The Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz) in of a sculpture of early 20th century Paris, texts mixing of words and pictures were Charles Dickens novels – the job of by the city’s writers and poets were central to Dada and Surrealism in the engraver was simply to follow the carved in marble matched with images by its artists particular. story with visuals of the narrative. and sculptors. Virtually every major painter and When creating an edition of It was shaped too by radicalism sculptor of the 20th century – Rodin, Éluard’s À toute épreuve, Miró, wrote: and in particular the explosive Braque, Ernst, Matisse, Maillol, “I have made some trials which potential of images and text Kandinsky, Dalí and Giacometti, have allowed me to see what it was witnessed in the pamphlets, posters to name a few – collaborated in the to make a book and not merely to and manifestos that emerged across creation of one or more such works 12 | 15 May 2021 | BOOKS, MAPS & PRINTS antiquestradegazette.com Left: Edgar Allan Poe’s Le Corbeau (The Raven) was translated by Stéphane Mallarmé in 1875 with his close friend Edouard Manet providing half a dozen lithographs for an edition of 240. Both Mallarmé and Manet signed the edition with this presentation copy, sold for £25,000 at Bonhams in March 2020, inscribed for Charles and Dinah Seignobos. They had met the poet when he was a schoolteacher in Tournon in the Ardèche in the 1860s and worked to give him a pay rise and paid leave. Le Corbeau was a commercial failure and the venture, a full 25 years ahead of its time in concept and design, was not repeated by the publisher.

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Above: the artist’s book created entirely by one person became common in the later 20th century. For Poemes et Lithographies (1954) published by the Galerie Louise Leiris, Pablo Picasso was responsible for all the book’s components: the ‘handwritten’ text, images and the layout. This copy, number 46 from an edition of 2 signed by icasso to the ustification leaf sold for £9000 at Bonhams in Knightsbridge in December 2019.

and some, such Picasso, would All conspired to make the edition concept into the territory of the livre a parallel career as a poet, French become prolic in the genre. more desirable in the marketplace. d’object, that scholarship recognised translator, critic and connoisseur. From the beginning, livres Representing the intersection of the emergence of a distinct genre. His collection, amassed in repeated d’artistes were designed as collectors’ art and literature, the livre d’artiste Two US exhibitions were key: The visits to collectors, printers, and items that might enhance their status. lies somewhere between the book Artist and the Book: 1860-1960 in Western artists over several decades, is now Prints were frequently oered and the artwork. Europe and the United States held at part of the Taylor Institution Library, in two forms: stitched within the And initially they proved of more the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in Oxford. codex as decoration, and as an extra interest to private collectors than 1961 and Beyond Illustration: The Livre It features several classics of the appended unbound and untrimmed to institutions – a reection of the D’Artiste in the Twentieth Century at genre including Parallèlement and set. common refrain that art museums the Lilly Library in Indianapolis in Balzac’s Le Chef d’Oeuvre Inconnu Occasionally there could be hesitate to purchase books, and few 1976. The accompanying catalogues illustrated by Picasso (1931). variations in the plates or colours, libraries can aord to acquire art. (by Philip Hofer/Eleanor Garvey dierent grades of paper and Typically artist’s books will form and Breon Mitchell) remain standard The collecting base bindings while – most desirable of part of wider studies devoted to reference works on the subject. Are today’s buyers typically art all – were those copies dubbed hors a particular artistic movement or Another important early study collectors or book collectors? “I commerce (not for sale) that, often set painter. was The Artist and the Book in France would say that many art collectors aside for presentation to family and It was not until the 1960s, by (1969) by Walter John Strachan. will have one or two livres d’artistes, friends, included original drawings, which time artists such as Dieter A teacher of modern languages sketches or manuscript material. Roth and Ed Ruscha had moved the in Bishop’s Stortford, Strachan had Continued on page 14 antiquestradegazette.com BOOKS, MAPS & PRINTS | 15 May 2021 | 13 Books, Maps & Prints 2021 The livre d’artiste

Left topping the final tranche of the estribats Right the 1946 edition of a sale (ebruary 2021) at Christie’s in Paris French translation of Pushkin’s was Joan Miró’s A toute épreuve published in La Dame de Pique (The Queen 1958. The edition (one of ust 20 copies made) of Spades) includes a set of consisted of 80 original woodcuts, with this separate sepia lithographs by copy including an additional woodcut that the Catalan artist ntoni Clave has been hand-coloured with gouache by the (1913-2005). rom an edition of artist. Estimated at 50,000-70,000, it sold at 300, it is priced at $1250 by New €135,000 (£122,700). York dealer James Cummins Bookseller.

Right: the translation of Goethe’s Faust illustrated by the French Romantic artist Eugène elacroix (published in 1828 in Paris) is sometimes cited as the first livre dartiste. It contained a frontispiece portrait of oethe and 17 lithographed plates drawn on stone. Delacroix was inspired to illustrate the work by a performance of the play he attended in London in 1825. lthough criticised at the time, one early viewer who did appreciate their greatness was oethe himself, who on first seeing them in 1826 wrote ne must acknowledge that this M elacroix has a great talent, which in Faust has found its true nourishment ... I have to agree that M elacroix has surpassed the scenes of my writing. This copy in a fine cuir-cisel binding by Charles Meunier, dated 1920, sold for $23,000 (£17,700) in a Christie’s online sale in une 2018.

(Marcel Duchamp’s famous foam Destribats was one of the great d’appui, a volume of poems by Paul Continued from page 13 rubber breast is the most memorable avant-garde book collectors of Eluard, illustrated by Picasso. His but more extensive collections are element of Le Surréalisme en 1947) but his generation, his encyclopaedic pre-war works are more desirable usually the preserve of bibliophiles,” others, added at a later date, are very library of more than 6000 volumes, than those made in the 1960s and says Bonhams specialist Matthew much the stu of personal preference. manuscripts and printed documents 70s. This was number one of the Haley. “There are certainly livre “Some collectors want their books centred on the work of André rst six copies with proofs printed in d’artiste collectors, but very often in their purest form, as issued and Breton, the leader and principal blue, green and red that included an these books form part of a wider fresh o the press,” says Vincent theorist of Surrealism. extra aquatint of Picasso’s right hand ‘books as objects’ library which Belloy, specialist at Christie’s Paris. He has been an active buyer produced in a moment of spontaneity might also include a medieval Book “Others do appreciate them bound, when several major collections as the volume was printed at the of Hours, a volume of Piranesi, a adding the touch of another artist to were dispersed at the turn of the end of May or the beginning of June Blake and designer bindings.” what is already a collaborative work millennium: those of Renaud Gillet 1936. The work soared past its high Traditional collecting variables at heart.” (Sotheby’s London 1999), Pierre estimate of €150,000 to realise of rarity, condition and provenance Leroy (Sotheby’s Paris 2002), €425,000 (£386,400) apply but as a general rule, the higher Paul Destribats Daniel Filipacchi (Christie’s Proyart summed up the appeal the status of the artist, the more The most recent market barometer Paris 2004) and Fred Feinsilber of the artist book as he celebrated a desirable the artist’s book. in the eld has been the three-part (Sotheby’s Paris, 2006). €13.5m sale: “What is exciting is the A book that ts well into a dispersal of the Paul Destribats Some of the livres d’artistes in the fact that many of these artists created painter’s oeuvre (such as Matisse’s (1926-2017) collection held between Destribats collection were special new images [for these works] that Jazz) carries extra gravitas as does July 2019 and February 2021 by copies that included original artists’ nobody had ever seen before. They the collaboration that brings a good Christie’s Paris, in association with illustrations. invented a new way of combining synergy of art and text. book dealer Jean-Baptiste de Proyart These included the sale-topping paintings, books and engravings, Bindings were sometimes integral and specialist Claude Oterelo. 1936 rst-edition copy of La Barre which was something unique.” ■ 14 | 15 May 2021 | BOOKS, MAPS & PRINTS antiquestradegazette.com Right in 1921 the eorgia-born artist, critic, poet and proponent of ussian uturism Ilya danevich (also known as Iliad) moved to rance, where he continued his publishing activity. highlight of Part II of the estribats sale at Christie’s in Paris was Max Ernsts Maximiliana, ou l’exercice illégal de l’astronomie (1964), which sold for €95,000 (£86,400). This ada movement collaboration

Photo: James Cummins Bookseller Cummins James Photo: between Iliad and Ernst takes its title from the tale of an asteroid discovered in 1861 by the erman philosopher Ernst ilhelm Tempel. Ernsts text and auatints pay homage to Tempels mission to explore domains beyond ordinary human perception.

Left: Bonhams sold a special copy of Le Peseur d’âmes by André Marois and Francis Picabia on March 25. One of the ‘standard’ 294 copies of this 1931 book on Arches paper might fetch £500-1000 at auction and more would be expected for one of eight copies on Japon imperial paper. However, this was one of the six hors commerce copies that included an original watercolour by Picabia and a typed letter signed by the publisher Antoine Roche. Presented to the artist’s wife Germaine Everling, the watercolour, pictured here, is a scene of several soldiers sharing a bottle of wine around a table. This copy fetched £10,200.

Left the first monumental rench livre dartiste of the 20th century was the product of a friendship between poet uillaume pollinaire and artist aul ufy. Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d’Orphée illustrated with woodcuts by ufy in the auve style was published by eplanche in 1911 in an edition of 120 copies. ufy watched the printing from the first to the last sheet. This copy, signed and numbered 114/200 with original wrappers but later boards and slipcase, sold for $5300 (£4300) at a Christie’s online sale in ovember 2020. nly managing to sell about 20 copies, eplanche donated the remainder to the antiue bookseller Chevrel.

antiquestradegazette.com BOOKS, MAPS & PRINTS | 15 May 2021 | 15 Books, Maps & Prints 2021 Letters on a military theme Unique piece of the action How letters related to wars bring a connection that history books cannot match (photo: Wikipedia) (photo: Wikipedia) by Tom Derbyshire

The added value of diaries, journals and logbooks to militaria lots such as medal groups is well known – but letters on a wartime theme can carry great appeal on their own. While big names in the eld such as Napoleon and Wellington are guaranteed to create interest, it is not always the most obvious gures at the heart of the action that grab the attention. Politicians, diplomats and even a spymaster feature in this selection of hammer highlights. As Hugh Bett, a specialist at book and manuscript dealership Maggs Bros of London, says: “The importance of soldiers’ letters and diaries lies in their immediacy to the action that’s being described Above: Charles Stuart, later Baron – not just the battles, but also life Stuart de Rothesay. in the eld. Many of them remain unpublished and the good ones Above right: Friedrich von Gentz. provide a sort of unocial history of Right: a example from an archive that campaign. It can be fascinating.” of letters from von Gentz to Stuart Bett added: “Collectors come – £4200 at Dominic Winter. in all sorts of shape and sizes, frequently they’re descendants of those who fought, but there are others – historians and hobbyists – who want to dig a little deeper than what appears in the printed accounts.” private UK collection of Napoleonic both the king of the Netherlands Private collection and East India Company letters and the exiled Louis XVIII during A Napoleonic letters section oered and manuscripts which the South the ‘Hundred Days’, in Paris from at Gloucestershire auction house Cerney saleroom has been selling in 1815-24, and in 1825 helped negotiate Dominic Winter (20% buyer’s instalments since 2019. the treaty by which Brazil became premium) is a good example. The latest slice on March 10 independent from Portugal. These letters are all from the same included the Charles Stuart (1779- Von Gentz studied under 1845) papers, relating to the British Immanuel Kant in Königsberg, diplomatist par excellence of the but soon renounced his teacher’s After the disaster of the Charge of the Light Napoleonic era. Among these, the favourable view of the French Brigade in 1854 the blame game began. best-seller was an extensive archive Revolution and devoted his career This 1857 letter right is from the man illuminating the close personal to the defence of civil liberties who led the charge – Cardigan (James relationship between Stuart and and the equilibrium of powers in Brudenell, 7th Earl 1797-1868) – to an the Austrian political thinker and Europe against Napoleon’s imperial unidentified correspondent and reects statesman Friedrich von Gentz project. Initially in Prussian that post-war arguing. (1764-1832). Neither are familiar service, he relocated to Vienna in It recommends Dr [EH] Nolan, author of names as such but played important 1802, becoming propagandist and the History of the War with Russia, who had roles in their own ways. condential adviser to Klemens von listened to Cardigan’s assertion that he had received “erroneous information with Stuart (later Baron Stuart de Metternich (1773-1859). regard to some details of the conduct of the Cavalry. afeguarding the reputation Rothesay) entered the diplomatic As secretary-general in the great of the cavalry was of paramount importance to Cardigan. Bitter accusations had service in 1801, serving rst in Vienna peace congresses of the 1810s he own between him and his brother-in-law Lord Lucan over the responsibility for (1801-04) and then in St Petersburg then played a central role in the the charge. Cardigan was later to challenge Lucan to a duel for supporting a writer (1804-08). He subsequently formation of the post-Napoleonic who cast aspersions on his courage the duel never took place due to a series of undertook intelligence gathering order in Europe. misunderstandings and missed encounters. with the provincial juntas in French- The letters between the two This letter is priced £675 by Maggs Bros, which notes: “Other writers on the occupied Spain (1808-10) and made on oer at Dominic Winter have Crimean ar endured numerous letters in Cardigans very difficult hand. octor himself indispensable to Wellington their serious side. Gentz provided olan was evidently fortunate to have, eventually, earned Cardigans approbation. as minister at Lisbon (1810-14). important intelligence from Berlin He was minister at the courts of and elsewhere on the movements of 16 | 15 May 2021 | BOOKS, MAPS & PRINTS antiquestradegazette.com Napoleon’s Right: a letter from spymaster Francis Drake to Charles Stuart, partly plans foiled encrypted – £2400 at In the bicentenary year of his death, relics Dominic Winter. connected to Napoleon will inevitably Left: a letter from the catch the eye. Duke of Wellington to On April 27 Sotheby’s (26/21/14.9% Charles Stuart – from a buyer’s premium) offered a second group sold for £2400 at selection from a “remarkable collection Dominic Winter. of letters and documents, which was assembled by a discerning connoisseur over a period of some 20 years”, comprising “entirely fresh material, covering four centuries of European history, from Philip II of Spain to the end of the Cold War, but once again with a particular focus on the Napoleonic period”. Several important letters by Napoleon were included, from his crucial command in Italy in 1797 to preparations for the defence of France following the disastrous March on Moscow. One letter in this collection, estimated at £10,000-15,000 and sold for £60,000 signed ‘Napoleon’, to Vice-Admiral Ganteaume, August 22, 1805, gives orders for the invasion of England. Napoleon commands him to rendezvous with Admiral Villeneuve at Brest, put to sea immediately and make their way into the English Channel. He praises Left: a caricature of Ganteaume’s talent, steadfastness and character and urges him to come to Boulogne Francis Drake eeing and avenge ‘six centuries of insult and shame, a cause greater than any other for Munich after having which his military forces have ever risked their lives’. been exposed, from a German book sold by England in their grasp dealer Simon Beattie. A companion letter to Vice-Admiral Villeneuve on the same day, guided at £8000- 12,000 and sold for £35,000, expresses the hope that he reached the port at Brest, and requests he gather his squadron and join him in the English Channel within the next 24 hours. He closes by declaring that England is within their grasp. What Napoleon did not know was that, far from the Channel, Villeneuve was trapped at Cadiz by the blockade of Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood. When The importance lies in Napoleon discovered this the following day after sending the letter, he realised that all hope of a successful invasion had evaporated. He turned instead to the German their immediacy to the “ campaign which was to culminate in the great victory of Austerlitz. action that’s being Two months after both these letters were sent, the ranco-panish eet under described Villeneuve was thrashed at the Battle of Trafalgar. Villeneuve was taken prisoner and on his return to France in April 1806 he committed suicide rather than face Napoleon.

Bonaparte and his generals (‘Vous Franco-Russian relations. Englands und der Jakobiner wider das estimate £2400 was a group of seven savez que Bonaparte a quitté Paris To add to the intrigue, three of Leben des Kaysers, und die Freyheit des Peninsular War autograph letters le 30... je m’attends de grandes the bifolium letters are partly in franz. Volks). The German version written to Stuart from headquarters nouvelles’), and provided Stuart with cipher, while included in the lot was furnished with this “wonderful, in Cartaxo in 1810-11. potential informants. was an intelligence report from large caricature of Drake, eeing Such letters tend to support However, they also reveal the Alexander Horn (1762-1820), Scottish from Munich after the a¡air broke the emphasis placed by modern human bonds often unseen beneath Benedictine monk and political agent. clutching books, papers, and phials historians on Wellington’s the transactions of high diplomacy. The Drake letters made £2400, of invisible ink”. extraordinary organisational and Written in an elegant French three times the top estimate. De la Touche kept tabs on French administrative capabilities as much and leavened with faux rebukes Drake was minister to the court of émigrés who opposed Napoleon. as his command in the eld. Both (‘Je vous trouve cruel de ne me rien the Elector of Bavaria at Munich from Beattie wrote: “Posing as a were key to defeating Napoleon in communiquer’), they show Gentz 1799-1804, having previously served sympathiser, Méhée inveigled the Peninsular campaign. and Stuart constantly exchanging in Genoa. He was expelled after his himself into their circle, and was For example, he sent a letter on and discussing books, pamphlets and intelligence activities were exposed by recommended to the British Foreign February 26, 1811, commenting on a newspapers, dining and attending a French sting operation, described in O¥ce, which sent him to Francis report by Sir William Erskine on the soirées, and gossiping condentially a published account by the responsible Drake, ambassador to Bavaria and insu¥cient provision of bread to the about Viennese society. French agent Jean-Claude-Hippolyte head of the British East European Portuguese infantry. The archive sold for £4200 against Méhée de la Touche (1762-1826) titled spy network, who provided him with an estimate of £2000-3000. Alliance des Jacobins de France avec le codes and names of agents. In 1804, Diplomacy and music Ministere anglais (1804). Drake was also Drake was embarrassed when some Still to come from the same private Spymaster unmasked lampooned in a caricature, Sir Francis letters, revealing plans of a French UK collection (to be o¡ered later Another intriguing set of ve letters, Drake fuyant de Munich et retournant à uprising against Napoleon, were this year) are the papers of John all but one signed, came to Stuart Londres avec ses cartons, sa correspondance, intercepted and passed on to ministers Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland from spymaster Francis Drake ses encres sympathiques et ses clefs. in Paris, and duly published.” (1784-1859), best known as (1764-1821), the British minister to In 2013 bookseller Simon Beattie Lord Burghersh. He served with the court of the Elector of Bavaria at wrote on his blog (simonbeattie. Eye on admin distinction under Wellington before Munich from 1799-1804. co.uk) about a German translation Wellington did feature in this embarking on a successful diplomatic They concern matters such as an of the Méhée de la Touche book he Dominic Winter collection in career with a sideline as a noted intercepted letter to Napoleon and had bought (Die verrätherischen Plane three lots. Sold for a double-top- amateur violinist and composer. ■ antiquestradegazette.com BOOKS, MAPS & PRINTS | 15 May 2021 | 17 Books, Maps & Prints 2021 Letters on a military theme

First-hand horror of Dunkirk The great British tradition of celebrating last stands and heroic defeats includes the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940. An autograph letter, pictured below, offered at Bonhams (27.5/25/20/14.5% buyer’s premium) in London on March 31 sums up the courage shown by so many during Operation Dynamo. Written from the White Hart Hotel, Margate, May 31, 1940, on hotel headed notepaper, the six- page letter was penned by Lt Walter George Hugh Testoferatta Bonham (c.1920-43) to his father Lt Col Charles Barnard Bonham (1871-1943), DSO, of the Royal Engineers. Beginning ‘Dear Pop’, it gives a detailed and sometimes harrowing account of Bonham’s experience of Dynamo as the commander of a small private motor cruiser. He describes men who were ‘...in addition to being burnt to hell... almost dead from exposure and exhaustion. I had to cut the wet clothing off most of them, stripping them, rubbing them all over till I sweated blood, and then wrapping them up in blankets with beer-bottles filled with hot water as hot water bottles...’. ust five months earlier, in ecember 1939, at the age of 19, Lt Bonham had served on M Exeter, one of the three British cruisers that scuttled the German pocket battleship the Graf Spee at the Battle of the River Plate. Exeter was severely damaged and had to go in for repairs, allowing Above a letter by Captain ames Caulfield describing M Thunder’s Bonham to return home to a hero’s welcome in Penzance. role in protecting a Baltic convoy – £660 at C&T. Sadly he was killed in action in 1943, following his brother Harry who had died of wounds received in action aboard HMS Fleetwood shortly after this letter was sent, in June 1940. This powerful letter, with an estimate of £800-1200, sold together with his service record books at £3500. Captain who saved the bacon in Danish attack

Convoys to protect merchant vessels have a long history in naval conict. A letter sold at ent saleroom C&T (22% buyer’s premium) in a timed ilitary ooks, Ephemera hotographs Auction ending on December 27 reveals Royal avy ships in action back in 1808. A year earlier, after apoleon’s defeat of Russia and russia, ritain had laid siege to Copenhagen to tackle the Danish navy allied with the French. The Danish eet surrendered when their capital was captured and more than 60 ships taken. owever, ritain and Denmark remained at war for more than six years and ritain had to convoy and escort its altic trade. The CT letter, estimated at 200-00, was an account of S Thunder’s action against the Danes in June 1808. Launched in 1800, and previously a slave ship, S Thunder was purchased by the R in 180 and saw plenty of action. n June 9, 1808, she drove off a considerable force of Danish-orwegian ships and prevented a convoy from being successfully attacked. The three-page letter written by her captain, James Caulfield, describes this successful action in detail. Also included was the reply from the Admiralty praising his deeds. Caulfield was the recipient of a 100 prie from the merchants at Lloyds involved in the altic trade, as a token of appreciation. Typically the prie was a silver vase. oth letters sold for 660.

Admiral came to grief four years later

After a long and illustrious naval career, it is a ships were further east than they were. pity that Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell is best A letter written by Shovell four years before known for the circumstances of his death. his untimely end, dating from August 5, 1703, In 1707, during the War of the Spanish was o ered at London auction house Forum Succession, he had been supporting Prince (30/24% buyer’s premium inc VAT) on Eugene’s campaign against Toulon in southern January 28. France. The action succeeded in scuttling the Signed to Captain John Baker, commander French eet at the port but Toulon was not of HMS Monmouth, it orders: ‘You are to make captured. a Perfect List of your whole Shipps Company That October, Shovell sailed for England Including Marines... & Transmited To the with 21 ships of the Mediterranean Fleet in Agent Victualer in The eet Who will Pay your his agship, the Association. However, strong Men what is due To them On the Sine of Short westerly winds drove his eet onto rocks o the allowance…’ Isles of Scilly. Association and three other ships Estimated at £300-400, it did rather better were sunk and 1500-2000 men died, including in selling at £1500. Shovell. Despite being an experienced and Right: Sir Cloudesley Shovell’s letter high-ranking commander, he had believed the from 1703 – £1500 at Forum.

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LATIN CHORAL MANUSCRIPT On vellum. France around 1500. Estimate: € 25,000 antiquestradegazette.com BOOKS, MAPS & PRINTS | 15 May 2021 | 19 Books, Maps & Prints 2021 Fairs preview A fair to make Brighton rock Organiser tells us why the south-coast city is a great place for a new PBFA event by Matt Ball Northampton, so there are plenty of opportunities.

The Provincial Booksellers Fairs How do you cope with the Association (PBFA) is holding uncertainty over Covid? a new book fair at the Brighton We have to have faith. October is Racecourse on October 30. Here ve months away and we may be ATG asks dealer and fair organiser in the middle of lockdown number Jeremy Carson about his plans for nine by then; on the other hand the event. the worst of the virus could be well behind us by then. I’m pressing on ATG: Why Brighton? regardless which is all one can do at Jeremy Carson: The PBFA has long the moment. wanted to re-establish its fairs in Our last big fair at York way back the south of England and Brighton in January 2020 boosted attendance was an obvious choice. It’s an hour with a dedicated Facebook page and from London and there are almost a I’ll be doing the same. There’s a lot of quarter of a million people living in interest in local history here and we Above: in the 1930s Brighton Council hired big names to talk up the town. Sharp the BN postcode. can capitalise on that. copies of these deco classics are hard to find and rarely come in at under 20. There’s also a strong tradition of culture, arts and education in the Below left: priced from 1 to 10 from The Antiquarian Book Company, local What next? city. The PBFA led the way with our maps are a good lure for new collectors as they’re colourful, interesting and There’s a lot at stake because October virtual fairs and we’re all anxious to affordable. is not the whole story. We’re planning get back to the real thing. It’s worth Below right: Brighton Book Fair is on Facebook a fair at the same venue in May 2022 remembering that we exist to ‘bring facebook.comgroups1261896062. which could turn into one of the books to the people’ via physical fairs biggest on in the PBFA calendar. It’s and we look forward to bringing right in the middle of the Brighton that ethos to Brighton. Festival, the second largest in the country (after Edinburgh) and a Why you? magnet for 150,000 visitors. I can see the racecourse from my house! I’m honoured to What’s the plan? be manager but organising A themed PBFA culture fair would a large fair at a new venue be a perfect match and very popular is a formidable task. Snippy with festivalgoers. For example, this comments about health ‘n’ safety year’s festival features performances are funny in the pub – less so of Wilde’s De Profundis and HG Wells’ when you’re legally responsible classic War of The Worlds; our members for the lives of thousands. o¢er all sorts of works by authors like The small print makes these from rst editions to theatre ominous reading. ‘Have I programmes and lm posters. personally approved the safety- The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra certicates for any portable string section will be playing lighting?’ Well, no – but then Tchaikovsky at The Dome Theatre – I again it’s 2021 and I’m not can o¢er Henry J Wood’s marked-up expecting any zzing bakelite score for the rst UK performance or hairy wires. Happily, there’s a Antiques and Vintage Fair since 2016 Will dealers be ready with stock of Eugen Onegin, back in 1892. Tie-ins 32-page book from PBFA head oce and has turned out to be the perfect given recent lockdowns? like that are e¢ortless for us. to guide me through the labyrinth of venue. There’s plenty of exhibition Absolutely. Well-established Our May 2022 fair will take place preparation. space, lots of customer parking and a members have scoured their store regardless of whether it becomes an fantastic events team that are always rooms and there’s only so much you ocially sanctioned festival event – Why the racecourse? prepared to go the extra mile to can sell online. right now it isn’t but we’ll see what It’s huge, modern, at and you can help.” I’m a general dealer but I want to happens. That status depends on the park a car there which is something On the hand, it is not, I’ll admit, as sell exclusively Sussex items at this festival organisers for support and you cannot do easily or cheaply in easily accessible on public transport fair. I’m building up a good collection that is not a given, especially in a central Brighton. For dealers it’s as some other venues but there are of books, maps and ephemera. Local venue to the east of the city. In the great; loading is a cinch. buses from the city centre. In fact, auction houses such as Gorringe’s meantime, I’m focused on making a Encouragingly, similar fairs at other big events at the racecourse and Toovey’s are open again and success of October. ■ the racecourse have proved very have used a dedicated shuttle bus that’s great timing as mixed lots of successful for trade and visitors alike. from the station; a tried and tested books are best examined before a bid. I spoke to Donny Mann, organiser solution but another expense. I’ll look I’m also adapting my website Jeremy Carson runs books dealership of the popular Love Antiques Fairs, into it and try to gauge whether the for a more local focus. Buying is The Antiquarian Book Company. who told me: “The racecourse increased attendance will cover the picking up after the lockdown and antiquarianbookcompany.com has been the home of our Brighton costs. our fairs begin again in July, with pbfa.org 20 | 15 May 2021 | BOOKS, MAPS & PRINTS antiquestradegazette.com Fairs calendar Key events in the UK and overseas

The return of fairs as lockdown restrictions have virtual Firsts Online in late May a few months ahead of 22 August eased has been a welcome boost for dealers, its Firsts London in-person fair on October 21-24 at its Wilton Book Fair event organisers and buyers. new location of the Saatchi Gallery. The Michael Herbert Hall, South This calendar lists a selection of forthcoming Reminder: lockdown rules differ both around the Street, Wilton, Wiltshire, SP2 0JS specialist fairs and markets in the UK and around the world and within devolved nations of the UK. Local Tel: +44 (0)1963 250280 / world. authorities may also be involved in approving events. +44 (0)1258 473561 pbfa.org During lockdown, fairs organisers held virtual events Lockdown dates are subject to change based on and some of these are continuing alongside in-person government criteria and therefore the dates listed here 28 August fairs. In the UK, the PBFA (Provincial Booksellers Fairs are also subject to change. Readers are advised to Tenterden Book Fair Association) is holding its monthly online fairs as its check with the fair or event concerned before travelling Highbury Hall, Highbury Lane, physical fairs come back onto the calendar and the any distance, in case of last-minute cancellations or Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6LE ABA (Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association) is holding a alterations. Tel: +44 (0)1580 764395

29 August Online Book Fair Tel: +44 (0)1763 248400 pbfa.org UK BOOK FAIRS 11 July 7 August Bloomsbury Book Fair Glamis Book Fair Bloomsbury Ephemera Fair 20-25 May Holiday Inn, Coram Street, Bridge View House, Glamis, Angus, Holiday Inn, Coram Street, Firsts Online Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 1HT DD8 1QU. Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 1HT Tel: +44 (0)20 8004 9512 Tel: +44 (0)1707 872140 Tel: +44 (0)1307 860293 Tel: +44 (0)1707 872140 etcfairs.com ﬁrsts-online.com etcfairs.com pbfa.org 5 September 12 June Northampton Book Fair Leeds Record & Book Fair Leeds Record & Book Fair The Park Inn by Radisson, Silver Street, Kirkgate Indoor Market, Vicar Lane, Missing Book Fair Highgate Hall, Overend, Elton, Kirkgate Indoor Market, Vicar Lane, Northampton, Northamptonshire, Leeds, Yorkshire, LS2 7HY Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, Leeds, Yorkshire, LS2 7HY NN1 2TA Tel: +44 (0)7896 713988 Tel: +44 (0)7896 713988 PE8 6RU Tel: +44 (0)7909 901078 leedsrecordandbookfair.com leedsrecordandbookfair.com Tel: +44 (0)1245 361609 pbfa.org missingbookfairs.co.uk Missing Book Fair Faversham Book Fair 17 July Village Memorial Hall, off Hall Street, Alexander Centre, Preston Street, 9-12 September Long Melford, Suffolk, CO10 9JQ Faversham, Kent, ME13 8NZ Lyndhurst Book Fair Photo London Tel: +44 (0)1245 361609 Tel: +44 (0)1795 474957 Community Centre, Lyndhurst, Somerset House, Strand, London, missingbookfairs.co.uk facebook.com/favershambookfair Hampshire, SO43 7NY WC2R 1LA Tel: +44 (0)20 7759 1169 Tel: +44 (0)7967 643579 8 August 26 June photolondon.org Tenterden Book Fair 25 July Bloomsbury Book Fair Highbury Hall, Highbury Lane, Holiday Inn, Coram Street, 10-11 September Bloomsbury Ephemera Fair Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6LE Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 1HT Holiday Inn, Coram Street, York National Tel: +44 (0)1580 764395 Tel: +44 (0)1707 872140 The Knavesmire Suite, York Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 1HT etcfairs.com Racecourse, York, Yorkshire, Tel: +44 (0)1707 872140 29 June YO23 1EX etcfairs.com Online Book Fair Ballater Book Fair Tel: +44 (0)1904 624414 Tel: +44 (0)1763 248400 Victoria Hall, Station Square, pbfa.org pbfa.org Missing Book Fair Ballater, Aberdeenshire, AB35 5QB Highgate Hall, Overend, Elton, Tel: +44 (0)1307 860293 11 September 29-30 June – 1 July Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, pbfa.org Leeds Record & Book Fair The London Book Fair PE8 6RU Kirkgate Indoor Market, Vicar Lane, Tel: +44 (0)20 8271 2124 Tel: +44 (0)1245 361609 14 August Leeds, Yorkshire, LS2 7HY missingbookfairs.co.uk londonbookfair.co.uk Bakewell Book Fair Tel: +44 (0)7896 713988 leedsrecordandbookfair.com Bakewell Agricultural Way, Haddon 3 July 29 July Road, Bakewell, Derbyshire, Faversham Book Fair Abergavenny Book Fair Online Book Fair DE45 1AH Alexander Centre, Preston Street, The Priory Centre, St Mary’s Priory, Tel: +44 (0)1763 248400 Tel: +44 (0)114 2748958 Abergavenny, NP7 5ND Faversham, Kent, ME13 8NZ pbfa.org pbfa.org Tel: +44 (0)1454 218036 Tel: +44 (0)1795 474957 pbfa.org facebook.com/favershambookfair 30-31 July 21 August 10 July Ilkley Book Fair Stratford-upon-Avon Book Fair 12 September The Kings Hall & Winter Gardens, Leeds Record & Book Fair Levi Fox Hall, Chapel Lane, Bloomsbury Book Fair Kirkgate Indoor Market, Vicar Lane, Station Road, Ilkley, Yorkshire, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, Holiday Inn, Coram Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, YLS2 7HY LS29 8HB CV37 6HB Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 1HT Tel: +44 (0)7896 713988 Tel: +44 (0)1943 830095 Tel: +44 (0)7909 901078 Tel: +44 (0)1707 872140 leedsrecordandbookfair.com pbfa.org pbfa.org etcfairs.com antiquestradegazette.com BOOKS, MAPS & PRINTS | 15 May 2021 | 21 UK FAIRS CALENDAR

18 September 16 October 6 November Lyndhurst Book Fair Community Centre, Lyndhurst, Edinburgh Book Fair Bury St. Edmunds Book Fair Devizes Book Fair Hampshire, SO43 7NY Augustine Church Hall, 41 George IV Athenaeum Hall, Angel Hill, The Corn Exchange, Market Place, Tel: +44 (0)7967 643579 Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EL Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 1LU Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 1HS Tel: +44 (0)1968 678175 Tel: +44 (0)1245 361609 Tel: +44 (0)1225 742296 pbfa.org pbfa.org pbfa.org 28 November Bloomsbury Ephemera Fair 13 November Stamford Book Fair Haydock Book Fair Holiday Inn, Coram Street, Edinburgh Book Fair Stamford Arts Centre, 27 St Mary’s Haydock Park Racecourse, Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 1HT Street, Stamford, Lincolnshire, Augustine Church Hall, 41 George IV Haydock, Merseyside, WA12 0HQ Tel: +44 (0)1707 872140 PE9 2DL Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EL Tel: +44 (0)1706 370244 etcfairs.com Tel: +44 (0)1778 343175 Tel: +44 (0)1968 678175 pbfa.org pbfa.org pbfa.org Topsham Book Fair 24-25 September Sherborne Book Fair Northern Illustrated, Children’s & Matthews Hall, Town Hall Square, Digby Memorial Church Hall, Detective Fiction Topsham, Exeter, EX3 0HF St Ives Book Fair Digby Road, Sherborne, Dorset, Pavilions of Harrogate, Yorkshire Event Tel: +44 (0)1404 41727 Porthmeor Studios, Back Road West, DT9 3NL Centre, HG2 8NZ pbfa.org St Ives, Cornwall, TR26 1NG Tel: +44 (0)1935 816262 / Tel: +44 (0)1943 830095 Tel: +44 (0)1736 365955 +44 (0)1963 250280 pbfa.org 29 November pbfa.org Online Book Fair Leeds Record & Book Fair Lewes Book Fair Tel: +44 (0)1763 248400 25 September Kirkgate Indoor Market, Vicar Lane, The Town Hall, Lewes, pbfa.org Lyndhurst Book Fair Leeds, Yorkshire, LS2 7HY East Sussex, BN7 2QS Community Centre, Lyndhurst, Tel: +44 (0)7896 713988 Tel: +44 (0)1273 477555 Hampshire, SO43 7NY leedsrecordandbookfair.com 2-7 December pawsandclaws-ars.org.uk/ Tel: +44 (0)7967 643579 Firsts Online – Chelsea & bookfair.php Faversham Book Fair Edinburgh Edition 26 September Alexander Centre, Preston Street, Tel: +44 (0)20 8004 9512 21-24 October Bloomsbury Ephemera Fair Faversham, Kent, ME13 8NZ firsts-online.com Tel: +44 (0)1795 474957 Holiday Inn, Coram Street, Firsts, London’s Rare Book Fair facebook.com/favershambookfair Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 1HT Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York’s HQ, 4 December Tel: +44 (0)1707 872140 King’s Road, London, SW3 4RY 14 November London Christmas Book Fair etcfairs.com Tel: +44 (0)20 8004 9512 Holiday Inn London, Bloomsbury, firstslondon.com Bloomsbury Book Fair Coram Street, London, WC1N 1HT 29 September Holiday Inn, Coram Street, Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 1HT Tel: +44 (0)7701 034472 / Online Book Fair 23 October Tel: +44 (0)1707 872140 +44 (0)7730 892206 Tel: +44 (0)1763 248400 Uppingham Book Fair etcfairs.com pbfa.org pbfa.org Town Hall, High Street East, Uppingham, Rutland, LE15 9PY Missing Book Fair 11 December 2 October Tel: +44 (0)116 2701856 Highgate Hall, Overend, Elton, Winter Market Harborough Missing Book Fair pbfa.org Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, Congregational Church Centre, Village Memorial Hall, off Hall Street, PE8 6RU High Street, Market Harborough, Long Melford, Suffolk, CO10 9JQ Tenterden Book Fair Tel: +44 (0)1245 361609 Leicestershire, LE16 7JD Tel: +44 (0)1245 361609 Highbury Hall, Highbury Lane, missingbookfairs.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)7850 795207 missingbookfairs.co.uk Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6LE pbfa.org Tel: +44 (0)1580 764395 20 November 2-3 October Edgbaston Book Fair Leeds Record & Book Fair Dublin Book Fair 29 October Mac Birmingham, Cannon Hill Park, Royal Marine Hotel, Marine Road, Online Book Fair Birmingham, West Midlands, B12 9QH Kirkgate Indoor Market, Vicar Lane, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, A96 K063 Tel: +44 (0)1763 248400 Tel: +44 (0)1562 745060 Leeds, Yorkshire, LS2 7HY pbfa.org Tel: +44 (0)20 7493 7160 pbfa.org Tel: +44 (0)7896 713988 pbfa.org leedsrecordandbookfair.com 20-21 November 30 October 9 October UK Fine Press 12 December Durham Book Fair Oxford University, Examination Bath Book Fair Bloomsbury Book Fair New College Durham, Framwellgate Schools, 75-81 High Street, Oxford, The Assembly Rooms, Bath, Holiday Inn, Coram Street, Moor Campus, Durham, DH1 5ES Oxfordshire, OX1 4BG Somerset, BA1 2QH Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 1HT Tel: +44 (0)1325 469449 Tel: +44 (0)1865 333555 Tel: +44 (0)1225 420683 pbfa.org fpba.com Tel: +44 (0)1707 872140 pbfa.org etcfairs.com Brighton Book Fair 27 November Leeds Record & Book Fair Brighton Racecourse, Freshfield Road, Missing Book Fair 19 December Kirkgate Indoor Market, Vicar Lane, Brighton, East Sussex, BN2 9XZ Village Memorial Hall, off Hall Street, Bloomsbury Ephemera Fair Leeds, Yorkshire, LS2 7HY Tel: +44 (0)7769 318895 Long Melford, Suffolk, CO10 9JQ Holiday Inn, Coram Street, Tel: +44 (0)7896 713988 Tel: +44 (0)1245 361609 leedsrecordandbookfair.com pbfa.org Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 1HT missingbookfairs.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)1707 872140 10 October 31 October etcfairs.com Surrey Postcard Club Fair Bloomsbury Book Fair Bloomsbury Ephemera Fair St Peter’s School, Horseshoe Lane 29 December Holiday Inn, Coram Street, Holiday Inn, Coram Street, East,Merrow, Guildford, Surrey, Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 1HT Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 1HT GU1 2TN Online Book Fair Tel: +44 (0)1707 872140 Tel: +44 (0)1707 872140 Tel: +44 (0)1483 274599 Tel: +44 (0)1763 248400 etcfairs.com etcfairs.com surreypostcardclub.co.uk pbfa.org

22 | 15 May 2021 | BOOKS, MAPS & PRINTS antiquestradegazette.com INTERNATIONAL FAIRS CALENDAR

INTERNATIONAL NETHERLANDS 9-10 July 17 October BOOK FAIRS 1-3 October Twin Cities Antiquarian & Rare Ann Arbor Antiquarian Book Fair Ballroom of the Michigan Union, Amsterdam International Book Fair 530 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, Antiquarian Book Fair Schoenecker Arena, University of St. AUSTRIA Thomas, 2115 Summit Avenue, St. MI 48109 Marriot Hotel, Stadhouderskade 12, annarborbookfair.com 10-14 November Amsterdam, NL-1054 ES. Paul, MN 55105 mwaba.com Buch Wien amsterdambookfair.wordpress. 12-14 November com Vienna Exhibition Centre, 18 July Boston International Antiquarian Messengelände, Vienna, A-1021 Book Fair SPAIN Detroit Festival of Books buchwien.at Hynes Convention Center, 900 10-19 September Eastern Market, Shed 5, 2934 Russell Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02115 Street, Detroit, MI 48207 Catalan Book Week abaa.org detroitbookfest.com FINLAND Moll de la Fusta, Barcelona, 08002 28-31 October lasetmana.cat 6-7 August VIRTUAL Helsinki Book Fair 19-20 May 10-26 September Rocky Mountain Book & Paper Messukeskus Helsinki, Expo & Getman’s Virtual Book & Paper Madrid Book Fair Fair Convention Centre, Messuaukio 1, Fair Plaza de la Independencia 7, Colorado Springs Event Center, 3960 Helsinki, 00520 getmansvirtual.com Madrid, 28014 Palmer Park Boulevard, Colorado kirjamessut.messukeskus.com ferialibromadrid.com Springs, CO 80909 3-5 June rmaba.org 13-15 October SLAM e-Rendez-vous FRANCE amorlibrorum.fr Liber International Book Fair 18-21 August 11-13 June Ifema, Avenida del Parthenó 5, Pulpfest 10-12 June Salon des Avant-Gardes du XX Madrid, 28042 1 Bigelow Square, Pittsburgh, Folium Refectory of the Cordeliers, 15 rue de ifema.es/liber PA 15219 folium.digital l’Ecole de Médecine, Paris, 75006 pulpfest.com 24-28 November salon-des-avant-gardes.fr 3-5 July XII International Antiquarian 28 August SLAM e-Rendez-vous 24-26 September Book Fair Papermania Plus amorlibrorum.fr Salon: Rare Book Fair Glass Living Room, Madrid City XL Center, 1 Civic Center Plaza, Council, Plaza de Cibeles, Madrid, Grand Palais Éphémère, 3 avenue du Hartford, CT 06103 22-27 July 28014 General Eisenhower, Paris, 75008 papermaniaplus.com The Transatlantic Virtual Book ailaasociacion.com salondulivrerare.paris Fair 4 September transatlanticbookfair.com 6 November SWITZERLAND Sacramento Antiquarian Book 3-5 August Maps, Globes & Scientiﬁc 21-26 September Fair Scottish Rite Temple, 6151 H Street, SLAM e-Rendez-vous Instruments Fair Photo Basel Sacramento, CA 95819 amorlibrorum.fr Hôtel Ambassador, 16 Boulevard Volkshaus Basel, Rebgasse 12-14, sacbookfair.com Haussmann, Paris, 75009 Basel, 4058 3-5 September map-fair.com photo-basel.com 9-12 September SLAM e-Rendez-vous amorlibrorum.fr 11-14 November 5-7 November New York International Zurich Antiquarian Book Fair Antiquarian Book Fair Paris Photo 3-5 October Kunsthaus Zurich, Heimplatz 1, Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Grand Palais Éphémère, 3 avenue du SLAM e-Rendez-vous Zurich 8001 Avenue, New York, NY 10065 General Eisenhower, Paris, 75008 amorlibrorum.fr bookfair.ch abaa.org parisphoto.com 11-12 September 3-5 November SLAM e-Rendez-vous UNITED STATES OF Printers Row Lit Fest GERMANY amorlibrorum.fr AMERICA Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60605 20-24 October May 21-22 printersrowlitfest.org 3-5 December Frankfurter Buchmesse Albuquerque Antiquarian SLAM e-Rendez-vous Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage 1, Book Fair 3 October amorlibrorum.fr Frankfurt am Main, 60327 Sid Cutter Pilots’ Pavilion, Balloon Antiquarian Book & Paper Show buchmesse.de Museum Road, Albuquerque, Causeway Bay Hotel, 6820 South 11-13 December NM 87113 Cedar Street, Lansing, MI 48911 SLAM Virtual Winter Fair ITALY abqbookfair.com curiousbooks.com amorlibrorum.fr 24-25 September Rome Map Fair Piazza Santi Apostoli 80, Rome, 00187 To submit forthcoming fair dates contact: romamapfair.com

20-21 November Salone della Cultura Rachel Fellman Superstudio Maxi, via Moncucco 35, Calendar Controller Milan, 20142 [email protected] salonedellacultura.it +44 (0)20 3725 5606 antiquestradegazette.com BOOKS, MAPS & PRINTS | 15 May 2021 | 23 Books, Maps & Prints 2021 Auction previews

Superlatives for Purchas’ Pilgrimes

A first-edition copy of Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas his Pilgrimes 162-26 headlines Forum Auctions’ Fine ooks, anuscripts and Works on aper sale on ay 27. The massive five-volume collection of travel stories, written by the Anglican cleric Samuel urchas c.177-1626, includes a number of important maps, including, in olume , those dealing with America and the West ndies. This superlative copy’ once belonged to arcissus Luttrell Heraldry and chivalry 167-172, the historian, diarist and biographer. Estimate £30,000-40,000. Christie’s aluable ooks and anuscripts sale in ing Street on July 14 includes forumauctions.co.uk this heraldic manual made in late 1th century northern France or Flanders. Elegantly written in French and finely illuminated on vellum, it contains the rules of heraldry and over 800 blaoned armorials of the French nobility and Arthurian knights. Estimate £40,000-60,000. christies.com Links to British golf courses

PBA Galleries of California is holding a sale devoted to Golf Books and Memorabilia on May 13. Among the lots on offer is this copy of British Golf Links edited by G Horace Hutchinson. The book, a first trade edition published in 1897 by JS Virtue, is an account of 51 of the finest British golf courses, plus three in France, illustrated with numerous photos and engravings. This copy is inscribed with the monogram of the editor on the title page. The estimate is $400-600. pbagalleries.com Jenner on vaccinia

The sale at Dominic Winter in South Cerney in Gloucestershire on June 16 includes this unpublished Donum Authoris: presenting letter written by Edward Jenner (1749-1823) on April 15, 1802, to the Yorkshire physician John Glover Loy Newton’s Opticks in Latin (1774-1865). The text over three pages amounts to an enthusiastic and triumphant response to Loy's pamphlet, This presentation copy of saac ewton’s 1706 An account of some experiments on the origin of the cow- Optice: sive de reflexionibus, refractionibus, pox published in 1801. inflexionibus & coloribus lucis libri tres carries a guide Jenner writes: “I know of no Production on of £30,000-50,000 at onhams’ nightsbridge books the Vaccine subject which has afforded me more sale on June 24. satisfaction, since it was first brought before the Public, ound in contemporary calf the upper cover now than yours. It has effectively put a stop to the sneers detached, it was given by ewton to John Wickins of those little minded Persons who think everything and is inscribed in Wickins’ hand Donum Authoris. is impossible which does not come within the narrow Although little is known of Wickins’ life, he was sphere of their own comprehension.” from 166-8 ewton’s roommate at Trinity College, Loy’s pamphlet was the independent evidence in Cambridge, where they were both Fellows. e acted support of a horsepox role in the prevention of smallpox as ewton’s assistant, copying up his notes and and his own early assertions about the horse origin of turning their rooms into a laboratory. vaccinia. The letter comes by direct descent from his The first edition of ewton’s Opticks appeared in family with expectations of £5000-8000. 1704 in English with this Latin version printed in 1706. dominicwinter.co.uk bonhams.com 24 | 15 May 2021 | BOOKS, MAPS & PRINTS antiquestradegazette.com BOOKS and MANUSCRIPTS AUCTION MAY 20, 12 PM EDT

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Draft of Lett er Annotated by John F. Kennedy to Winston Churchill, 1 6 5 5

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The rst of Harry Potter

A first edition, first impression of J Rowling’s arry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is to be sold in Tennants’ ooks, aps and Ephemera sale in Leyburn on July 28. This sought-after volume in exceptional condition has an estimate of £20,000-30,000. The book is one of 00 case-bound copies printed in the first run, and it demonstrates all the reuisite points of identification the copyright page is dated 1997, with the author credited as Joanne Rowling page has the Catching prints online error 1 wand’ repeated and the rear cover features the misprint Wiardry and Witchcraft’ for Witchcraft and orum uctions conducts a May 20 online sale titled Images of ngling the avid Wiardry’ and the typo hilospher’s Bealey Collection of ngling Prints. mong the earlier works are three engravings (one Stone’. shown above) after Francis Barlow published by Wenceslaus Hollar c.1671. tennants.co.uk Estimate £500-700. forumauctions.co.uk

And for my next trick

This is the heavily annotated typescript for Harry oudinis last literary work an expos of the new spiritualism titled Magician Among the Spirits. The 408 leaves and 175,000 words, complete with oudinis corrections and those of his assistant Oscar Teale, restores a great deal of material that was edited out when the finished version (running to ust 75,000 words) was published by arpers in 1924. n additional typed letter from Teale to Houdini declares: “It seems a pity, that your labor should be minimized for commercial ends...” Last sold at Swann Galleries in 1997 as part of the Milbourne Christopher sale (his bookplate appears to the binding), it comes for sale at Bonhams New York on June 17 with hopes of $20,000-30,000. bonhams.com Debunking The Turk

Bellmans' sale of Printed Books and Manuscripts in Wisborough Green, West Sussex, on July 15 includes this 1821 first edition copy of obert illis expos From Gads Hill to Aberdeen on olfgang von empelens celebrated utomaton Chess Player. Many who saw it had been convinced that, through eys’ ooks Ephemera sale in Aylsham on June 9-10 includes this its mechanism alone, the chess-playing ‘Mechanical ovember 27, 1869, letter from Charles Dickens at ads ill lace to Turk was able to hold its own against human Aberdeen niversity. n it the author declines the invitation for his name opponents, including, reputedly, Napoleon Bonaparte to be put forward for the post of Lord Rector of the university. The lot and Benjamin Franklin. In this work, however, Willis, unusual, as much of Dickens’ correspondence from this late period in a Cambridge professor and mechanical engineer, his life was created with explained what some had already suspected: that the the help of secretaries mechanism could conceal a hidden human operator. includes the The full title of the publication is An Attempt envelope addressed in to Analyse the Automaton Chess Player of Mr. de Dickens’ hand with a Kempelen. With an Easy Method of Imitating the enny Red’ stamp and Movements of that Celebrated Figure. Illustrated a CD seal. Estimate by Original Drawings. To which is Added, a Copious £1500-2000. Collection of the Knight’s Moves over the Chess Board. keysauctions.co.uk Estimate £500-800. bellmans.co.uk

26 | 15 May 2021 | BOOKS, MAPS & PRINTS antiquestradegazette.com SALE HIGHLIGHTS

BOOKS and MANUSCRIPTS

A late 15th century illuminated Book of First edition of Samuel de Champlain’s Les Leaf From the Gutenberg Bible, circa Hours from the library of French King Voyages du Sieur de Champlain, Paris, 1613 1450-55. Estimate: $40,000-60,000 Charles X. Estimate: $40,000-60,000 Estimate: $40,000-60,000

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MAURICE SENDAK (1928-2012) illustrated his first book in 1946 at the age of 18 (Atomics for the Millions, 1947) and went on to become the most important children’s book artist of the 20th century. In celebration of this 75th Anniversary, the Society of Illustrators is sponsoring an Exhibition and Sale of original Sendak artwork. More than a hundred pictures: pencil sketches, ink drawings, full watercolors and lithographs – including for the first time on public display and for individual sale, original art from Sendak’s first book, also selected images of his iconic “Wild hings”, studies for other published illustrations, poster designs, opera and ballet stage sets.

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28 | 15 May 2021 | BOOKS, MAPS & PRINTS antiquestradegazette.com Books, Maps & Prints 2021 Auction previews Aubrey Beardsley INKING THE 1890s Roald Dahl: ‘Never shelter children from the world’

The Library Auction at Hansons (Bishton Hall, Staffordshire) on June 15 includes this autograph letter by Roald Dahl. Written on Gipsey House, Grest Missenden notepaper and dated August 2, 1989, it was the unexpected reply to a university student who was writing a dissertation focusing on controversial elements (particularly violence) of Dahl's books for children. Its central passage reads: “Never shelter children from the world. Basically ‘the content’ of any children's book is of no importance other than that it enthrals the child – and thus it teaches or seduces him or her to like’ books and to become a fit reader which is vital if that child is going to amount to anything in later life. The book-reading child will always outstrip the non-book-reading child in later life. An exhibition “There are very few messages in these books of mine. They are there simply to turn the child into a reader of books. Damn it all, they are mostly pure fantasy. Have you dedicated to the read the latest one, ‘Matilda’? It seems to have broken every sales record in the history of hardback publishing. Now do send back to me the enclosed. Roald Dahl.” artist’s printed works It comes for sale from the recipient with a guide of £500-800. hansonsauctioneers.co.uk 105 New Bond Street, London From 13th May 2021 [email protected] Image Courtesy of Skinner, Inc. Inc. Skinner, of Courtesy Image

Books wanted • An independent second-hand book dealer, trading since 1989, I give a friendly and efficient service offering fair prices and am happy to travel.

• Based in West London, I buy good quality second-hand books ranging from antiquarian to modern first editions.

• Subjects include military, travel, children’s, illustrated... almost anything in fact and authors range from Dickens and Christie to Fleming and Rowling.

• I also buy autograph material, postcards and printed Remembering the 54th Massachusetts ephemera of all sorts.

• I’m always interested in buying unusual, rare and Skinner in Massachusetts is holding an online sale of historic manuscripts and books running from May 13-25. collectable books from private collections and clearances so if It includes this 1863 American Civil War diary by Lincoln Ripley Stone, surgeon to the you have a library, or just individual titles, to sell then do get 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment. in contact and please keep this advert for future reference. The regiment was composed of free black soldiers and achieved fame through the bravery its men exhibited at the attack on Battery Wagner on the night of July 18, 1863, • Covid update: During this current (second) lockdown suffering casualties of over 40% of the men in the process. I am still allowed to come and view books with an intent The leather-bound diary records daily activities, movements and observations of to buy and I would, of course, follow all the current the regiment, including the Battery Wagner action, during the 1863 campaign season, safety guidelines. beginning in late May and continuing to the end of the year. It is offered with two drafts of Lincoln Ripley Stone's recollections of the 1861 and 1862 campaigns and an albumen photograph of Stone seated on a porch surrounded by several Please contact Giles Levete: All visits people including African-American women. T. +44 (0)20 8840 1185 will be The lot has a provenance to the Charles Foster Batchelder III estate, upstate New York, formerly of Natick, Massachusetts. M. +44 (0)7931 737366 covid compliant Estimate $5000-7000. E. [email protected] skinnerinc.com antiquestradegazette.com BOOKS, MAPS & PRINTS | 15 May 2021 | 29 Books, Maps & Prints 2021

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April 19, 1865: an ‘executive’ pass to Lincoln’s funeral

A selection of Americana olitical items from the collection of Tom uston, who has been collecting for more than 60 years, will go under the hammer at eritage in Dallas on May 15. The 48-lot sale includes 7 lots relating to Abraham Lincoln, among them this Executive ansion pass to his funeral inscribed South Admit the Bearer to the Executive Mansion On Wednesday, the 19th of April, 1865. As funeral observances were limited to ocials and dignitaries, such passes are very rare it is said that fewer than 600 were issued to enter the Executive Mansion from various points). The pass, printed on thick paper measuring x in 8 x 1cm, has an estimate of $2000. ha.com

Aristotle in the 13th century Cleveley on Cook’s third voyage

A 13th century vellum manuscript Chiswick Auctions’ sale of Books & Works on Paper on June 30 includes this compilation of Aristotelian texts on original hand-coloured engraving from 1797 titled View of Charlotte Sound in logic will be one of the highlights of New Zealand showing the Resolution and Discovery at anchor in what is actually a sale to be held by Ketterer Kunst in Matavai Bay, Tahiti. This is one of four plates from John Cleveley's well-known Hamburg on May 31. series depicting Captain James Cook's third voyage to the acific based on The Logica Vetus (ld Logic) was drawings made during the voyage by his brother James, who was a carpenter made in France c.1250 and contains aboard Resolution. the primary texts for logical education throughout the entire medieval era. It features a script Estimate £2000-3000. with explanatory diagrams as well as marginal annotations. The manuscript was most likely used chiswickauctions.co.uk at the Paris niversity, one of the first medieval institutes of higher education and acknowledged for its Aristotelian studies. It has a provenance to the esuits of Millstatt, ustria (an erased inscription appears at the top of the first leaf) and to the Count swald eilern collection, sold by Christies London in Churchill’s dilemma March 2003. Estimate €60,000. kettererkunst.com over JFK oer

This typewritten draft of a letter from President Kennedy to Winston Churchill, with annotated amendments by JFK, will feature in the auction of Books and Manuscripts to be held by Freeman’s in Philadelphia on May 20. The letter written in March 1962 concerns the naming of an American Polaris nuclear submarine in Churchill’s honour. The question of whether to accept the offer weighed heavily on the former British prime minister. Churchill immediately wrote to Harold Macmillan, seeking his counsel, expressing his willingness to accept but saying: “I am much complimented by this suggestion, but the implications are obviously wider than the naming of a different type of ship.” To accept would make him the first living person to have a nited tates naval vessel named for him; to refuse could lead to diplomatic embarrassment. Macmillan voiced support for declining, and Lady Churchill also strongly opposed the idea, writing to Macmillan on April 4, 1962: “I should hate to feel that his name should be so closely associated with a weapon whose purpose is mass Looking down on Central Park destruction. You yourself know what a humane man Winston is, and it seems to me utterly inappropriate.” This hand-finished, colour-tinted lithograph of 1874 by eorge Schlegel, ew ork, It was ultimately decided that the idea would not be pursued any further. Thirty- taken from Central ark is an unusual bird’s eye view of anhattan. three years later, President Bill Clinton announced that a new ship would be named The perspective is set from elvedere Castle and it is possible to see many after Churchill, the first destroyer (and the fourth ship) named after a British citien. recognisable features of Central ark such as The Ramble, ethesda Terrace and Fountain This original draft letter from Kennedy to Churchill was typed for the president and ow ridge as well as buildings and architectural elements which no longer stand. on hite ouse stationery by chief warrant officer, ack E Cutcomb, who kept it for The rare lithograph is one of the lots in Swann alleries’ June sale of aps and posterity. The finished letter, dated March 27, 1962, is presumed to still be in the Atlases, atural istory Color late ooks in ew ork, where it has an estimate of Churchill family's possession, and a copy of it is preserved in the British National $4000-6000. rchives. Estimate $35,000-50,000. swanngalleries.com freemansauction.com 30 | 15 May 2021 | BOOKS, MAPS & PRINTS antiquestradegazette.com ENTRIES INVITED

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Among the recent auctions by Alex Capon demonstrating the range of the Modern prints can oer the Modern prints sector was Sworders’ chance to own interesting and (25% buyer’s premium) sale of eye-catching works, including Modern British & 20th Century art those by well-known artists, on April 20. without needing to invest large The 136 prints on oer included sums of money. This makes both ¦nancial highlights and more prints a viable option for aordable options. A good example collectors on a smaller budget as of both at the Essex saleroom came well as those just starting out. among the 12 Edward Bawden Modern and Contemporary (1903-89) prints. At the centre prints appeal on many levels. of the Great Bard¦eld artists’ For some buyers it is about group for almost 40 years, he was visual qualities and wall power. a versatile printmaker who made For others it about the close lithographs, linocuts, stencils and connection to an artist – the poster designs. subject matter, the way of Impressions which were made working or the thought process. with the artist’s direct involvement Others will focus primarily on are signi¦cantly more desirable technical aspects – the minutiae than those printed towards the end of printmaking methods from of his life. Here, at the lower end of woodcuts and etchings to the Bawden prints market, were two stencils and screenprints – and colour lithographs from 1985 based the sometimes vexing question of on earlier watercolours created by states and proofs. the artist in the 1940s. As they are typically produced One was Dunkirk, a 22in x 2ft 6in in multiples, prints are well (55 x 76cm) print commissioned suited to online transactions: by the Hurtwood Press for an purchasing decisions can be unrealised book Edward Bawden: made based on a few key pieces of War Artist. The original watercolour information and some knowledge was made by Bawden when, as of current prices. Indeed, the an O§cial War Artist, he was Above: Floral Hall, Covent Garden, greater levels of internet bidding evacuated from Dunkirk with the 1985 as a gift to approximately 400 a linocut by Edward Bawden – during the various lockdowns British Expeditionary Force in 1940. guests at the opening of its Style of £2200 at Sworders. over the last year has meant The print here sold on low estimate Empire – 1877-1947 exhibition. prints are one of the areas that, at £400. Further up the spectrum was a Below: Crocodile, a woodcut by to some extent, has witnessed an A bid of £300 was required to copy of one of Bawden’s best-known Tirzah Garwood – £3600. uplift in values – especially for secure British Empire Map, one of prints issued mid-career. The the most desirable material. ■ the prints commissioned by the signed linocut from 1965 showing Wolfsonian Collection in Miami in Floral Hall in Covent Garden

The specialist’s view Amy Scanlon, head of Modern & Contemporary Art at Sworders

“There has been a lockdown lustre for prints! With bidders still chose to rely on digital images and all of us in lockdown, our focus has been on our condition reports. Our ‘new normal’ includes a change surroundings and prints are an easy way to brighten up in how people purchase art, and they seem far more an interior with something to suit all ages and pockets. con¦dent to buy prints without seeing them themselves. The star lots at our recent sale, two Fragments by “This is fantastic for us as it opens the market up Bridget Riley, have the bold design that creates impact. worldwide, an example being our Andy Warhol After At over £30,000 this may not suit everyone’s budget, the Party (a screenprint that made £11,000) which was but the beauty of the print market is that clients are sold to an American buyer. also able to buy works by recognisable names for “Provenance is also key. Our fantastic set of eight aordable prices – for just £300 hammer you could Nursery Rhyme prints by Paula Rego far exceeded their secure a work by Augustus John or Keith Haring. estimates (ranging in price from £1300-3800), which “I was thrilled we were able to open up again and was due in part to the interest in their previous owner it was great to see the saleroom buzzing, but many – Germaine Greer.”

32 | 15 May 2021 | BOOKS, MAPS & PRINTS antiquestradegazette.com Left: Dunkirk, an Edward Bawden lithograph printed in 1985 – £400 at Sworders. Below left: Fragment 5, a screenprint on Perspex by Bridget Riley – £30,000. Below right: Waterloo Bridge from a Savoy Window by CRW Nevinson – £9000.

measures 18in x 2ft (46 x 61cm) and black and white style. Both are from the last few years is Eileen Lucy was printed in an edition of 75. It the Fragments series – seven works ‘Tirzah’ Garwood (1908-51), wife would be the artist’s only linocut printed on a clear Perspex sheet of the better known Eric Ravilious. of this subject: his series of Six One artist who has with brilliant white backgrounds She shot to prominence in May London Markets made two years later gained much more that were published by the Robert 2017 when a painting made £24,000 were prepared as linocuts but later “ Fraser Gallery in editions of 75. at Chens’ sale of works from the transferred to plates and printed as attention in the last few Embodying the artist’s uid style collection of Cambridge County oset lithographs instead. years is Eileen Lucy and use of modern materials, these Council. Since then her works, Estimated at £1000-1500, it sold ‘Tirzah’ Garwood, wife works are highly sought after. including the distinctive prints, have to a London private buyer at £2200 of Eric Ravilious First up, Fragment 3 was estimated gained increasing recognition in – a sum that exceeded the £1450 at £15,000-20,000 and took their own right. fetched by another copy sold in the £24,500, selling to a private bidder Previously her woodcuts would same rooms in January 2014. Indeed, of the artist’s 1920s prints. in The Netherlands. Fragment 5 was make under £500 at auction without some water damage to the The price, which was within slightly larger at 2ft x 2ft 7in (60 but one made a record £2100 at edges it may well have equalled the estimate, was a good one. Other x 79cm) but oered with the same Sworders in June last year. This £3000 achieved by a copy at Lyon & than a copy that made £9500 at guide. Selling at £30,000 to the price was exceeded at the current Turnbull in January 2020. Christie’s in March 2019, this was London trade, it made the highest sale when the woodcut Crocodile A London view by Christopher the highest price for Waterloo Bridge price at auction for the edition. dramatically overshot a £200-300 Richard Wynne Nevinson (1889- in the last seven years (source: Riley began further experiments in estimate to bring £3600. From 1946) achieved £9000. Waterloo Artprice by Artmarket). It sold to a colour in 1967, the year in which she an edition of 500, the diminutive Bridge from a Savoy Window, an 11 x London private buyer. produced her rst stripe painting. but nely detailed 6½ x 5in (17 x 14in (28 x 35cm) signed drypoint The third Riley print was a signed 13cm) impression was knocked etching from 1924-26, is a familiar Riley’s signature style screenprint from 1972 titled Coloured down to the same London buyer image to Nevinson collectors. Three trademark Op Art Greys 1. From an edition of 125, it who purchased the Nevinson print It was based on an oil on canvas screenprints by Bridget Riley surpassed a £3000-5000 estimate , (reported above). showing smoking chimneys across (b.1931) also drew good selling at £12,500 to a private buyer Harwood’s work is rare but the London’s Embankment that the competition, selling to three from Surrey on thesaleroom.com. auction house will no doubt be artist rst exhibited at the Leicester dierent bidders. They included two Newer names continue to emerge hoping that these buoyant price Galleries in London in March 1924. pieces made in 1965 not long after on the market. One artist who has levels will encourage further The brownish ink tones are typical Riley had arrived at her signature gained much more attention in consignments. antiquestradegazette.com BOOKS, MAPS & PRINTS | 15 May 2021 | 33 Books, Maps & Prints 2021 20th century prints

Above: Cricket, a linocut by Edith Lawrence – £4000 at Tennants. Above: France, a linocut by Edith Lawrence – £2400 at Tennants. Learning the market for Grosvenor School

The linocuts produced by artists backgrounds and angular shapes – and Modern British collectors and £1200-1800. It sold at £2400 to a from the Grosvenor School in although her subject matter was at her name is rightly beginning to private buyer – a sum that was above London, which ran from 1925-40, times removed from the depictions achieve the recognition it deserves.” the £1900 for another copy sold have been one of the liveliest areas of of the mechanised world favoured by More recently, a further nine at Tennants in February 2020 but the Modern British prints market in other members of the group. Indeed, works from the same source below the £5200 for the copy sold in the last 15-20 years. many of her linocuts were produced appeared at the Leyburn saleroom the 2016 sale. But while the futuristic from watercolours she made during on March 6, all of which sold for a Another rustic subject was Houses impressions by the likes of Claude her travels in Britain and Europe, combined hammer total of just over and Trees, which was a slightly smaller Flight, Cyril Edward Power and and so retain a slightly dierent but £11,000. The top sums were fetched linocut from an edition of 50. It sold Sybil Andrews have become scarcer, more individual feel. by the ve linocuts on oer. within estimate at £1800, again a few other names have now emerged In July 2016, a group of 80 being knocked down privately. and have become a more attainable Grosvenor School works came to Sporting scenes Elsewhere at the sale, another print option for those on a budget. Tennants (20% buyer’s premium) Leading the pack was a copy of on oer was a William Scott (1913- One such artist is Edith having remained as part of Cricket, a linocut from 1929 that is 89) lithograph. Lawrence (1890-1973), whose prints Lawrence’s estate. Consigned to the Lawrence’s best-known print. Signed As with other artists, Scott’s prints tend to sell in the low thousands North Yorkshire auction house by and measuring 12 x 14½in (30 x followed his main themes which, rather than the £10,000-plus levels her great-nephew, the sale helped 37cm), it was from an edition of 25. in his case, was the representation for the majority of prints by Flight, to give her more exposure on the Estimated at £3000-5000, it sold of simple objects in ¤attened form. for example. Her life and work is secondary market and raise her at £4000 to a UK private buyer – a While his paintings can easily fetch closely tied in with Flight’s – the prole in general. sum below the £6200 made by a copy six-gure sums, plenty of printed two artists became lifelong partners “Very few artworks by Edith in the July 2016 sale, perhaps due a material can be picked up for under after she studied under him at the Lawrence had appeared on the larger number of examples emerging £5000. Grosvenor School and they set up an market before we started to sell on the market in the last ve years. Pears, a 20in x 2ft 4in (50 x 65cm) interior decoration studio together the estate,” said Tennants’ picture A copy of France from c.1931, a signed print from 1979 (edition of in 1927. specialist Francesca Young. “They 10½ x 14in (26.5cm by 35cm) signed 150) was a typical example. Against The style of her linocuts is vintage are certainly very popular and linocut from an edition of 50, drew a £2000-3000 estimate, it sold at Grosvenor – bright colours, stark collectable among Grosvenor School good interest too against a guide of £2400.

The specialist’s view Francesca Young, picture specialist at Tennants Left: Pears, a lithograph by “Buying prints is a great entry level into collecting. They are wonderful William Scott artworks in their own right and a fantastic way to own an iconic image (1913-89) by a leading artist such as Banksy, Lowry, Francis Bacon or William – £2400 at Scott, to name a few we have recently sold. Tennants. “We’ve certainly seen a rise in the popularity of Modern and Contemporary prints in recent years. Perhaps this is due to changing attitudes to Modern art and printmaking and the nature of how people are furnishing their homes. “The market is very buoyant. Prices have been exceptionally strong in lockdown across the board.”

34 | 15 May 2021 | BOOKS, MAPS & PRINTS antiquestradegazette.com A Polish printmaker in a Welsh mining village Most prints are closely connected with an artist’s wider oeuvre. A few good Welsh examples were on oer at Rogers Jones (22% buyer’s premium) in Cardi on April 17. Five lithographs by Josef Herman (1911-2000) came to auction from a private collection in north Wales and were oered as a single lot with an estimate of £750-850. The artist was born in Warsaw, the son of a Jewish cobbler, and studied at the Warsaw School of Art but later moved to Brussels, Glasgow and then London before settling in the Welsh mining village of Ystradgynlais in 1944. He became particularly known for sombre pictures of coal miners – he was fondly referred to as ‘Joe Bach’ by the local mining community – but First up at Rogers Jones was a farmyard with two ¡gures, a cat and Above left and right two of five limited also documented the lives of rural 16½ x 23½in (42 x 60cm) signed geese being fed. edition prints by osef erman that sold workers he had seen on his travels lithograph of Laugharne estuary in From an edition of 260, it came as a single lot for £1500 at ogers ones. around Europe. Camarthenshire. A semi-abstract from a north Wales private vendor and Below left a lithograph of a farmyard This quintet, each from an edition work, it shows the estuary looking was pitched at £150-200. It sold at scene by ohn Elwyn £360. of 25, depicted agricultural workers out from where Dylan Thomas’ £360, another strong sum but one that including grape pickers in Burgundy. boathouse stands. underlines the value for money prints Bottom left: Laugharne estuary from Dylan They drew bids from a number Estimated at £100-150, it sold at can provide. Thomas’ Boathouse, a lithograph by Elwyn of dierent parties before they were £440 to a collector in the west of £440. knocked down at £1500 to a private England – a sum that appears to be collector in Swansea. the highest at auction for a print by Copies of this set have emerged Elwyn. THE ANTIQUE MAP before, most recently at Cambridge The other Elwyn print was a saleroom Chens in September last 17¾in (45cm) signed lithograph of a & BOOKSHOP year where one took £950, but this was the highest price so far at auction (source: Artprice by Artmarket). Antique Books • First Edition Books Out of Print Books Camarthenshire scenes Also on oer were two prints by John Call Now Elwyn (1916-97), another artist with We buy good quality antiquarian and second-hand books from a strong following in Wales. single volumes to whole libraries. He was born in south T.A. PROCTOR THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP Cardiganshire where his father ran a 32 High Street, Puddletown, Dorset DT2 8RU wool mill. 01305 848633 Buyers of his paintings look for the [email protected] most evocative interpretations of the Welsh landscape and its people, and this is also true of his prints.

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Curwen family archive dispersed

Among the publishing houses that helped put Modern British prints on the map was The Curwen Studio. Founded by the Rev John Curwen in 1863, originally as a sheet music publisher, it evolved from its base in Plaistow in London to become one of the first institutions to produce prints by pioneering graphic artists in the early 20th century. The studio remained at the cutting edge under the direction of master printmakers Kip Gresham and Stanley Jones and, in A prime period 1977, an exhibition of the Curwen archives was held at the Tate. Having moved to Cambridgeshire in 1989, the business Nicholson print was bought by the caravan manufacturer Sam Alper. Following his death in 2002, the studio eventually moved Five Circles first appeared as part of Ben Nicholson’s back to London in 2014 after it was bought by a new owner. (1894-1982) publication 23 Gravures in 1934 and was Many works from the Curwen archive, however, remained then released as a limited-edition print. The initial run with Alper’s family and his widow consigned a large group of approximately 30 signed copies was followed by of prints to Cambridge saleroom Cheffins (24.5% buyer’s various reprintings. premium) last year. Initially a 116-lot offering was held in Above: Pont au Change at Night, a 3ft 1in x 2ft 4in This example, above, of the 6 x 8in (16 x 20cm) August, while a second tranche was sold in a timed online (93 x 72cm) lithograph by Peter Coker that sold signed and dated 1934 woodcut appeared at Dawsons sale that closed on March 21. together with another lithograph, Pont Neuf from (23% buyer’s premium) in Maidenhead, Berkshire, on The top lot across the two sales came at the latter event: Hotel Chatelet, for £550 at Cheffins. March 25. It came from a private London vendor having two signed and numbered lithographs of Paris by Peter Coker been in the family for some years and was in good (1926-2004) which were estimated at £150-250 and sold at £550. condition apart from some yellowing to the paper. A keen printmaker as well as painter, he produced many views of France over a long period and in different Estimated at £500-800, it drew good interest and styles, dating from his first trip to aris in 190 until the final years of his life. From editions of 9 printed in 2004, after decent bidding on the day was knocked down at these two works were based on paintings Coker completed in 2002 and were among the final prints released in £3300 to a private collector. his lifetime. Patrick Pollak We deal in out-of-the-ordinary printed and written material and early photographs, all subjects and all languages, specialising in the HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE. We issue monthly lists by e-mail.

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This is a selection of specialist auctions. Dates are subject to change as are the conditions under which the auction may be held. Readers should check with the auction house for further details.

UK & IRISH 26 May BOOK AUCTIONS Forum Auctions 220 Queenstown Road, London, 19 May SW8 4LP Dominic Winter Auctions Tel: +44 (0)20 7871 2640 Mallard House, Broadway Lane, South Prints & Editions Cerney, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, forumauctions.co.uk GL7 5UQ +44 (0)1285 860006 27 May 19th & 20th Century Photography, Forum Auctions Cameras & Accessories 220 Queenstown Road, London, dominicwinter.co.uk SW8 4LP The auction on May 20 at Reeman Dansie in Colchester includes a Tel: +44 (0)20 7871 2640 complete set of 20 unissued Taddy cigarette cards known as ‘Clowns & Forum Auctions Books, Manuscripts & Works on Paper 220 Queenstown Road, London, Circus Artistes’. forumauctions.co.uk SW8 4LP These are some of the most sought-after cards among collectors and Tel: +44 (0)20 7871 2640 carry an estimate of £5000-£8000. Books, Manuscripts & Works on Paper 28 May Established in 1740, Taddy & Co had become a major British tobacco forumauctions.co.uk Chiswick Auctions firm by the end of the 19th century but abruptly ceased trading two 1 Colville Road, London, W3 8BL decades later. Purcell Auctioneers Tel: +44 (0)20 8992 4442 n the 1920s the cigarette industry went on strike and the Taddy Green Street, Birr, Co. Offaly, Photographs factory workers joined in even though they were already being paid more R42 KA49 chiswickauctions.co.uk than the unions were demanding. Company owner Gilliat Edward Hatfeild +353 (0)57 9120270 threatened to shut down the company if his staff failed to return to work. Irish Books & Ephemera Onslow Auctions The Taddy workers did not back down so Hatfeild carried out his threat. purcellauctioneers.ie The Coach House, Manor Road, reemandansie.com Stourpaine, Dorset, DT11 8TQ Thomson Roddick Auctioneers Tel: +44 (0)1258 488838 The Auction Centre, Burgh Road Classic Posters Estate, Marconi Road, Carlisle, Hansons 18 June Cumbria, CA2 7NA onslows.co.uk +44 (0)1228 528939 Country House Auction Showroom, Keys Fine Art Auctioneers Antiquarian & Collectable Books 9 June Bishton Hall, Wolseley Bridge, Aylsham Salerooms, off Palmers Lane, thomsonroddick.com Forum Auctions Staffordshire, ST17 0XN Aylsham, Norwich, Norfolk, 220 Queenstown Road, London, Tel: +44 (0)1889 882397 NR11 6JA 20 May Tel: +44 (0)1263 733195 SW8 4LP Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Prints Forum Auctions Tel: +44 (0)20 7871 2640 Books hansonsauctioneers.co.uk 220 Queenstown Road, London, Books, Manuscripts & Works on Paper keysauctions.co.uk SW8 4LP forumauctions.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7871 2640 Special Auction Services 23 June Images of Angling: the David Beazley Plymouth Auction Rooms Plenty Close, off Hambridge Lane, Bonhams Collection of Angling Prints Faraday Mill Trade Park, Cattewater Newbury, Berkshire, RG14 5RL 101 New Bond Street, London, forumauctions.co.uk Road, Plymouth, Devon, PL4 0SE Tel: +44 (0)1635 580595 W1S 1SR Tel: +44 (0)1752 254740 Tel: +44 (0)20 7447 7447 Phillips Photography James Bond Movie Posters & Smiths Prints & Multiples 30 Berkeley Square, London, specialauctionservices.com W1J 6EX Rock Band Memorabilia bonhams.com plymouthauctions.co.uk +44 (0)20 7318 4010 16 June Photographs Mullock’s phillips.com 15 June Purcell Auctioneers The Clive Pavilion, Ludlow Racecourse, Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood Green Street, Birr, Co. Offaly, Bromﬁeld, Ludlow, Shropshire, Reeman Dansie St. Edmund’s Court, Okehampton, R42 KA49 SY8 2BT 8 Wyncolls Road, Severalls Business Exeter, Devon, EX4 1DU Tel: +44 (0)1694 771771 Park, Colchester, Essex, CO4 9HU +353 (0)57 9120270 Tel: +44 (0)1392 413100 Historical Documents & Indian Tel: +44 (0)1206 754754 Books & Ephemera Books Ephemera Cigarette Cards, Postcards & purcellauctioneers.ie mullocksauctions.co.uk Ephemera bhandl.co.uk reemandansie.com Capes Dunn 17 June 24 June 25 May The Auction Galleries, 40 Station Keys Fine Art Auctioneers Anderson & Garland Lawrences Road, Heaton Mersey, Cheshire, Aylsham Salerooms, off Palmers Lane, Anderson House, Crispin Court, SK4 3QT Newbiggen Lane, Newcastle-upon- The Linen Yard, South Street, Aylsham, Norfolk, NR11 6JA Crewkerne, Somerset, TA18 8AB Tel: +44 (0)1614 321911 Tyne, Tyne & Wear, NE5 1BF Tel: +44 (0)1263 733195 Tel: +44 (0)1460 73041 Antiquarian & Collectable Books, Tel: +44 (0)1914 303000 Motoring books Maps, Prints & Art Books Comics lawrences.co.uk capesdunn.com keysauctions.co.uk andersonandgarland.com antiquestradegazette.com BOOKS, MAPS & PRINTS | 15 May 2021 | 37 UK & IRISH AUCTION CALENDAR

7 July 20 July Chiswick Auctions Special Auction Services 1 Colville Road, London, W3 8BL Plenty Close, off Hambridge Lane, Tel: +44 (0)20 8992 4442 Newbury, Berkshire, RG14 5RL Autographs & Memorabilia Tel: +44 (0)1635 580595 chiswickauctions.co.uk Photography specialauctionservices.com Forum Auctions 220 Queenstown Road, London, 21 July SW8 4LP Toovey’s Tel: +44 (0)20 7871 2640 Spring Gardens, Washington, Modern Literature Pulborough, West Sussex, RH20 3BS forumauctions.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)1903 891955 Books & Paper Collectables Roseberys London tooveys.com 70-76 Knights Hill, London, SE27 0JD Tel: +44 (0)20 8761 2522 28 July Prints & Multiples Cavendish Philatelic Auctions roseberys.co.uk 153-157 London Road, Derby, 8 July DE1 2SY Tel: +44 (0)1332 250970 Forum Auctions Philatelic Literature 220 Queenstown Road, London, cavendish-auctions.com The sale of Autographs & Memorabilia at Chiswick Auctions on July 7 includes this SW8 4LP lot relating to the production of the first Star Wars movie in 1976-77. Entered for sale Tel: +44 (0)20 7871 2640 by a vendor whose father was a sound technician at Elstree Studios, it includes a Tennants Books, Manuscripts & Works on Paper typed fourth draft of the original Star Wars script featuring the original working title The Auction Centre, Harmby Road, forumauctions.co.uk 'The Adventures of Luke Starkiller as taken from the Journal of the Whills’. The 148 Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 5SG page script is dated January 1976 and will be sold with an autograph book featuring Tel: +44 (0)1969 623780 14 July the signatures of cast members and an invitation from 20th Century Fox to a special Books, Maps & Ephemera screening of Star Wars at the Dominion Cinema on Tottenham Court Road. Christie’s tennants.co.uk Estimate £1500-£2000 8 King Street, London, SW1Y 6QT. chiswickauctions.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7839 9060 29 July Books & Manuscripts Forum Auctions christies.com 220 Queenstown Road, London, Bonhams 30 June Montpelier Galleries, Montpelier Street, SW8 4LP C & T Auctioneers Keys Fine Art Auctioneers London, SW7 1HH Tel: +44 (0)20 7871 2640 Unit 4, High House Business Park, Tel: +44 (0)20 7393 3900 Aylsham Salerooms, off Palmers Lane, Books, Manuscripts & Works on Paper Kenardington, Ashford, Kent, Aylsham, Norfolk, NR11 6JA Books & Manuscripts forumauctions.co.uk bonhams.com TN26 2LF Tel: +44 (0)1263 733195 Tel: +44 (0)1233 510050 Books 5 August Forum Auctions Military Books, Ephemera & keysauctions.co.uk 220 Queenstown Road, London, Photographs Keys Fine Art Auctioneers SW8 4LP candtauctions.co.uk Aylsham Salerooms, off Palmers Lane, Tel: +44 (0)20 7871 2640 Purcell Auctioneers Aylsham, Norfolk, NR11 6JA Books, Manuscripts & Works on Paper Green Street, Birr, Co. Offaly, Chiswick Auctions Tel: +44 (0)1263 733195 forumauctions.co.uk R42 KA49 1 Colville Road, London, W3 8BL Books Tel: +44 (0)20 8992 4442 +353 (0)57 9120270 Mullock’s keysauctions.co.uk The Clive Pavilion, Ludlow Racecourse, Books & Works on Paper Books & Ephemera chiswickauctions.co.uk purcellauctioneers.ie Bromﬁeld, Ludlow, Shropshire, 6 August SY8 2BT Tel: +44 (0)1694 771771 3 July 15 July Keys Fine Art Auctioneers Historical Documents & Indian Excalibur Auctions Aylsham Salerooms, off Palmers Lane, Ephemera Bellmans Aylsham, Norfolk, NR11 6JA mullocksauctions.co.uk Unit 16, Abbots Business Park, New Pound, Wisborough Green, Primrose Hill, Kings Langford, Billingshurst, West Sussex, Tel: +44 (0)1263 733195 Hertfordshire, WD4 8FR Stride & Son RH14 0AZ Books Southdown House, St. John’s Street, Tel: +44 (0)20 3633 0913 Tel: +44 (0)1403 700858 keysauctions.co.uk Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1XQ Films, Posters & Autographs Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts Tel: +44 (0)1243 780207 excaliburauctions.com 25 August Books, Documents & Ephemera bellmans.co.uk stridesauctions.co.uk 5 July Ewbank’s Forum Auctions The Burnt Common Auction Rooms, Forum Auctions 26 June 220 Queenstown Road, London, London Road, Woking, Surrey, 220 Queenstown Road, London, Antikbar SW8 4LP GU23 7LN 404 King’s Road, London, SW10 0LJ SW8 4LP Tel: +44 (0)20 7871 2640 Tel: +44 (0)1483 223101 Tel: +44 (0)20 7352 9309 Tel: +44 (0)20 7871 2640 Original Vintage Posters Prints & Editions Books, Manuscripts & Works on Paper Stamps, Postcards & Photography antikbar.co.uk forumauctions.co.uk forumauctions.co.uk ewbanksauctions.co.uk

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30 May SOUTH AFRICA Maryland 25 June Christian Hesse Auktionen Cape Town 28 May Hindman Osterbekstrasse 86A, Hamburg, 27 May 6270 Este Avenue, Cincinnati, 45232 22083 Theriault’s +1 5138711670 Antiquarian Auctions +49 4069454266 2148 Renard Court, Annapolis, American Historical Photography P.O. Box 186, Constantia, 7848 Art, Books & Autographs 21404 +27 217940600 hindmanauctions.com hesse-auktionen.de Books, Maps & Manuscripts +1 4102243655 antiquarianauctions.com Vintage Doll & Toy Reference Books Pennsylvania 31 May theriaults.com 20 May Ketterer Kunst 3 June Freeman’s Holstenwall 5, 20355 Antiquarian Auctions New York 2400 Market Street, Philadelphia, +49 403749610 P.O. Box 186, Constantia, 7848 27 May 19103 Rare Books +27 217940600 +1 2155639275 kettererkunst.com Books, Maps & Manuscripts Swann Auction Galleries Books & Manuscripts antiquarianauctions.com 104 East 25th Street, New York, freemansauction.com Kiel 10010 29 May SWEDEN +1 2122544710 Texas Auktionshaus Schramm Stockholm Photographs Heritage Auctions Dänische Strasse 26, 24103 swanngalleries.com +49 43194367 16 June 2801 West Airport Freeway, Dallas, 75261 Books & Fine Art Stockholm’s Auktionsverk 3 June antiquariat-schramm.de Nybrogatan 32, 102 39 +1 2145283500 +46 84536750 Swann Auction Galleries Books, Maps & Manuscripts 104 East 25th Street, New York, 19 May ITALY auktionsverket.com 10010 Manuscripts Milan +1 2122544710 Prints & Multiples 22 June SWITZERLAND Maps, Atlases & Books 20 May Cambi Casa d’Aste Zurich swanngalleries.com Rare Pulps & Collectables via S. Marco 22, 20121 1 July 9 June +39 236590462 17 June Photographs Photography Koller Bonhams cambiaste.com Hardturmstrasse 102, 8031 Rare Books +41 444456363 580 Madison Avenue, New York, 10 June Prints & Multiples 10022 Turin Rare Books kollerauctions.com +1 2126449001 18 May 16 June Fine Books & Manuscripts Aste Bolaffi UNITED STATES bonhams.com Prints & Multiples Via Cavour 17, Turin, 10123 California 17 June +39 0110199101 Swann Auction Galleries Comics & Animation Art Photography 26 May 104 East 25th Street, New York, astebolaffi.it Bonhams 18 June 10010 7601 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, Comics & Animation Art +1 2122544710 9 June 90046 19 June Aste Bolaffi +1 3238507500 Fine Books & Autographs Comics & Animation Art Via Cavour 17, Turin, 10123 Prints & Multiples swanngalleries.com +39 0110199101 bonhams.com 25 June Books & Autographs 30 June The Art of Anime & Everything Cool astebolaffi.it 9 June Bonhams 26 June Bonhams 16 June 7601 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, 580 Madison Avenue, New York, Signature X-Men Collection 90046 10022 The Art of Anime & Everything Cool Aste Bolaffi +1 3238507500 +1 2126449001 Via Cavour 17, Turin, 10123 27 June Prints & Multiples +39 0110199101 Medical Library of James Tait The Art of Anime & Everything Cool bonhams.com Goodrich (timed sale) Posters ha.com astebolaffi.it 30 June bonhams.com Virginia Bonhams Ohio NETHERLANDS 7601 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, 2 June Haarlem 90046 10 June Old World Auctions +1 3238507500 4325 Cox Road, Glen Allen, 23060 18 May Important Photographs & Ephemera Hindman +1 8042908090 Bubb Kuyper from a Distinguished Private 6270 Este Avenue, Cincinnati, 45232 Antique Maps, Globes, Charts, Kenaupark 30 Collection +1 5138711670 Atlases & Works on Paper +31 235323986 bonhams.com American Historical Photography oldworldauctions.com Books & Works on Paper hindmanauctions.com bubbkuyper.com Illinois 9 June 17 June 12 June 21 May Old World Auctions Hindman Rachel Davis Fine Art Bubb Kuyper 1338 West Lake Street, Chicago, 4325 Cox Road, Glen Allen, 23060 1301 West 79th Street, 44102 Kenaupark 30 60607 +1 8042908090 +31 235323986 Tel: +1 3122801212 +1 2169391190 Antique Maps, Globes, Charts, Books & Works on Paper Photography Prints & Drawings Atlases & Works on Paper bubbkuyper.com hindmanauctions.com racheldavisfinearts.com oldworldauctions.com

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